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Events
The Family Survival Trust aims to host at least one seminar or conference each year in central London. The following events have been hosted since the inception of The Family Survival Trust in autumn 2007.
HOW CULTS ARE INFILTRATING WORLD INSTITUTIONS
Saturday 17 April 2010
Hosted by The Family Survival Trust and FECRIS (European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism). Millennium Hotel Mayfair, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London.
The programme featured speakers from the United Kingdom and Europe, discussing how dangerous cults have lobbied and permeated government and private institutions in recent years.
Speakers at this event included:
Tom Sackville, former Home Office Minister and Chairman of the Trust, as well as President of FECRIS;
Audrey Chaytor, Chief Executive of the Trust;
Georges Fenech of MIVILUDES (Interministerial Mission of Vigilance and Struggle against Cultic Excesses), Paris;
Dr. Masoud Banisadr, author and former member of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran;
Ursula Caberta, Director of AGS Hamburg;
André Frédéric, Belgian Federal Parliamentarian;
Dr. Carmen Almendros, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Autonomous University of Madrid;
Caterina Boschetti (author and journalist) and Paolo Doppieri (film director), Italy;
Dr. Tatiana Karpacheva, Associate Professor of Philology at the Moscow City Pedagogical University;
Philippe Detilleul and Nathalie De Reuck, journalists and authors, Brussels;
Daniel Picotin, lawyer, Bordeaux
Subjects included ideas on how to combat abuse and criminality; rehabilatate victims; promoting European cooperation; the links between cults and terrorism; consumer protection laws as a way of protecting potential victims; experiences of cultic lobbying in legislatures; definitions of psychological violence; legal understanding of cultic activity; the infiltration of schools by potentially abusive cultic groups; questionable healthcare practice by unqualified groups posing as therapists and practitioners; and cross–border legal cooperation in dealing with dangerous infiltrators who do not restrict their operations within the borders of one country.
A One Day Conference at a venue in Central London:
SCIENTOLOGY: DECEPTION & INFILTRATION
Wednesday 15 April 2009
10 am - 6 pm
Admission £25 Concessions £20 A light buffet lunch will be provided
Hosted by The Family Survival Trust and AGS Hamburg. Millennium Hotel Mayfair, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London.
A programme of specialist speakers presented papers to highlight the many dangers posed by Scientology towards individuals and society in general.
The programme included a series of lectures and time for questions.
Speakers at this event included Tom Sackville, former Home Office Minister and Chairman of the Trust; Ursula Caberta, Director of AGS Hamburg; Christophe Heroufosse of CIAOSN, Brussels; Dr. John Butler, clinical therapist with special interest in mind control techniques employed by cults; Peter Martinelli, Deputy at the Common Council of the Corporation of London; John Duignan, ex-Scientologist; members of Anonymous; and Audrey Chaytor, Chief Executive of the Trust.
The subject was the infiltration and deception employed by Scientology to recruit members and persuade public authorities of its viability. The various investigations into Scientology, past and present, were detailed.
BRAINWASHING: A THREAT TO US ALL
Wednesday 30 April 2008
Hosted by The Family Survival Trust on 30 April 2008. The University Women's Club, Audley Square, Mayfair, London.
Professor Ben Zablocki, world-renowned expert on the sociology of religion, who currently holds the chair in Sociology at Rutgers University, USA, gave the keynote speech at a seminar presented by the Trust.
He sought to prove that brainwashing exists as a technique widely used by those seeking to exert inappropriate control over others, including by pseudo-religious organisations whose activities can have tragic consequences for individuals and their families, and terrorist groups who pose a global threat to public safety. He is currently writing a book on the subject of brainwashing.
Tom Sackville, former Home Office Minister and Chairman of The Family Survival Trust, commented:
"It is a matter of great regret that our UK authorities have for years followed the advice of local academics, some of them known to be involved with or even supported by cults, instead of common sense: they have thus adopted an irresponsibly laissez-faire policy based on the idea that brainwashing does not exist.
"Any rational observer can see that this is nonsense - how can young people be turned so absolutely against friends and families and throw away their lives for the benefit of obviously bogus religious leaders, or plot to blow up themselves and hundreds of innocent bystanders, unless their minds have been systematically interfered with?
"I hope Professor Zablocki's visit will help alert UK government and media to the connection between abusive cult behaviour and national security, and demonstrate that mind control techniques are a potent weapon in the hands of evil people."