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son in WWASP program
Anonymous:
Not joking about the reenactment. Girls have said that Gilcrease has also shouted out things like, "You're a slut, fight him off, he's raping you again", etc. during the simulated attack, which feels incredibly real to real victims.
emaree:
In seminars we would take duct-taped towels (so they were like flexible clubs) and beat them on the ground. We were supposed to imagine destroying photographs of our parents, then all the people who have hurt us, then ourselves. In between the three sessions, they would play an emotional song and have you "rest." The session where you beat the images of yourself up is the longest. It is a very long process and the entire time, the staffers walk around and scream things like
"WHAT DID HE DO TO YOU?! HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY CALL YOU WORTHLESS!?! YOU WERE SO ASHAMED!!!"
At least two or three kids every training were treated for gashes on their knuckles from beating the towels on the ground so hard, or for asthma/anxiety attacks. They repeatedly have to clean the carpet in the seminar building because of blood spatter. This was at SCL anyway.
Then of course they would build you back up with that rebirthing shit, or as they called it, your "magical child."
seminars were fucked up.
Anonymous:
I didn't pass "accountability" three times. I was sent to a WWASPS facility because I was skipping school and they told my parents that this was a great boarding school where I could catch up at school and learn another culture and language.
Before seminars we would talk about what we were going to say at them. Many kids made up things so that they looked like they were buying into the program. I refused to make up a story. Everytime Gilcrease asked me why I was there I would answer him honestly and say that I was screwing up at school and smoking pot. Pretty normal for a 16 year old. They kept asking me "why are you really here? where you molested as a child, etc."
I refused to lie and it made my progress in the program stand still. I was on level 4 challenge for 4 months which is where you have all the duties of this level and no benefits.
My parents knew me well enough that when I told them this situation they questioned everyone and came and got me!
001010:
--- Quote ---On 2006-04-25 00:01:00, emaree wrote:
"In seminars we would take duct-taped towels (so they were like flexible clubs) and beat them on the ground. We were supposed to imagine destroying photographs of our parents, then all the people who have hurt us, then ourselves. In between the three sessions, they would play an emotional song and have you "rest." The session where you beat the images of yourself up is the longest. It is a very long process and the entire time, the staffers walk around and scream things like
"WHAT DID HE DO TO YOU?! HOW MANY TIMES DID THEY CALL YOU WORTHLESS!?! YOU WERE SO ASHAMED!!!"
At least two or three kids every training were treated for gashes on their knuckles from beating the towels on the ground so hard, or for asthma/anxiety attacks. They repeatedly have to clean the carpet in the seminar building because of blood spatter. This was at SCL anyway.
Then of course they would build you back up with that rebirthing shit, or as they called it, your "magical child."
seminars were fucked up."
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Jesus... Will you re-post this on my myspace forum?
(In the thread about David Gilcrease)
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-04-24 14:25:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-04-23 23:34:00, Anonymous wrote:
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--- Quote ---At the same time, public masturbation would probably mean calling in a therapist--either the kids' regular therapist or the staff psychologist.
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Don't the parents already pay for the kids to be receiving treatment? So they only get to see a therapist of psychologist if they are doing something really weird or what? Shouldn't all the kids have access to proper treatment, or only the ones who masturbate in public?"
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Kids can see a therapist any time they want. That's in addition to regular visits. "
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That was absolutly not true when I was at CCM from 2000-2001. You could only see your therapist on scheduled visits and they were not there after 6 or so on weekdays and not at all on the weekends.
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