50^th Inform Seminar
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
AND COUNSELLING

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,
London School of Economics, Saturday 18 May 2013
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Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 29 April 2013 cost  £38 each (£18 students/unwaged).
NB. Tickets booked after 29 April 2013 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).
A limited number of seats will be made available to A-Level students at £10 before 29 April 2013 (£20 after 12 November). A party of 5 or more A-Level students from one school can include one member of staff at the same price.

 

 

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

 

Inform Seminars are intended to help participants to understand, or at least recognise, different perspectives.

The presence of speakers on an Inform programme does not mean that Inform endorses their position.

 

9.30am - 10.00am:           Registration

 

10.00am - 10.15am:         Welcome and Introduction, Professor Eileen Barker

 

10.15am - 10.45am:         Dr Hamish Cameron (Child Psychiatrist) Counselling and Minority Religions

 

10.45am - 11.15am:         Lizzy Calcioli (Scientology Auditor) Auditing as “Spiritual Counselling”

 

11.15am - 11.45am:         Coffee

 

11.45am – 12.15pm:        Simon Cooper (Unificationist) Working out Family Conflict

 

12.15pm - 12.45pm:        Pat Ryan & Joe Kelly (Thought Reform Counsellors) Restoring Family Connections

 

12.45pm – 1.30pm:          Small Group Discussions

 

1.30pm - 2.15pm:             Lunch

 

2.15pm - 2.45pm:             Karl Williams (Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Former Member of ICOC) Clinical approaches to NRMS: discourse,      power and pathology

 

2.45pm - 3.15pm:             Maitreyabandhu (Teacher at the London Buddhist Centre & Author) Mindfulness-Based Approaches and Buddhism

 

3.15pm - 3.45pm:             Tea

 

3.45pm – 4.15pm:            Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall (Clinical and Counselling Psychologist; co-founder of RETIRN) The Psychological Aetiology and          

Sequelae of Involvement with New Religious Movements: Counselling Issues for Members, Former Members, and Families

 

4.15pm - 4.45pm:             General Panel Discussion