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MORSEGLASS:
SORRY deborha, i guess i posted at the same time the im with stupid went to anon!!!

Anonymous:
I'm confused about Glenda Gabriel.  Is this the same person as Glenda Cook and Glenda Ikuta?

Thanks!

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Deborah:
Sounds like it.
Deborah

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... een01.html

October 1998
WWASP ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENTS
Karr Farnsworth, President of World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), announced several new developments with the Association. Members include Casa by the Sea, Cross Creek Manor, Morava Academy, Paradise Cove, Spring Creek Lodge and Tranquility Bay, schools that have been known to us under the Teen Help umbrella. Glenda Ikuta, who has been editor of the Paradise Cove newsletter whutz Up in Paradise Cove, is Editor of The Source, the newsletter for WWASP with its first issue being printed this September. All programs will be expanding Reflections, a program for students to reflect on how they live their lives, through additional Motivational Tapes, Emotional Growth Videos, and Educational Tapes/Videos. More TASKS interactions will be created beyond Level 3. Casa by the Sea is providing the ?Internalization phase of the program for students from the offshore facilities.? Paradise Cove, in Somoa has completed the re-modeling of their two-story Media Center. Three staff has been hired to facilitate the World Wide Support group meetings for parents with teens in any of the programs. There will be two meetings a year in each area which includes Southern California, the California Bay Area, Seattle, Arlington in the central US, Houston, D.C. area, Atlanta and Miami.

scottT:
Dear Anon,  

  You suggest that everyone should go to a WWASP parent seminar, because,  after all,"...its not a secret society."

   I understand that WWASP will soon be running two new seminars I'm sure you'll particularly enjoy--they're being conducted in the original German and Korean!!!

   Right, lets ALL go to a WWASP seminar!  The fact that parents (like me,  once upon a time) could be convinced of the validity of the program based on their experience at the WWASP sponsored seminar is actually pretty laughable.

   No parent can make an informed evaluation of the program based on the (relatively) subtle form of brain-washing that occurs in the parents' seminars -- you stay in a nice hotel, get a good nights sleep, you eat where where you want, and Sunday is a "fun day" where you get a party  and other fun stuff as a "reward" for going through "sharing" and emotionally disconcerting  experiences of the preceding sessions.

   Puh-leeze.  The parents seminars are little more than  2 or 3 day infomercials to keep the parents enthused about writing those $3,000 checks each month (Better keep your kid in there for the full 18 months, folks! Remember,  its OUR WAY -- or the CEMETERY!)

   I believe that the parents' seminars should be more like the actual programs.  For those of you who have been to a WWASP seminar,  please consider how your evaluation of  the program techniques would be affected if you were to, say, listen to the lectures while lying on your stomach for three days straight.  Or, if you don't get back to your seat by the time the music stops,  you will have to go back to level zero,  and extend your child's stay for at least an extra month or two (and $3,000 per month is a small price to pay for learning the value of keeping your agreements)  

God forbid, that your family never had a history of child molestation/sexual abuse/or (fill-in the-tragedy-of-your-choice)?? Obviously, You are refusing to be honest with us! (Actual Quote from our facilitator to gentleman who sheepishly confessed that his life was actually pretty uneventful: "Sir,  I believe you are a mile wide and an inch deep!)

What?  You still don't espouse the values of the program???  You want some mental manipulation?  Our facilitator told a person who was a victim of a hit-and-run accident that the damage was entirely her fault, and that she brought it on herself because of her "bad karma"  The upshot, of course,  is that as long as you confess to being a hopeless wretch who would be in the cemetery without the program,  you are praised for your strength and honesty.  Express something that doesn't fit in with the program's  world view (or "weltanschaungun" as some prefer to call it),  and you're vilified as a liar in front of a hundred people.  (I only went to one seminar,  but I saw both examples with my own eyes and heard with my own ears).

In the context of a parent seminar at a fine hotel,  one might perhaps experience the foregoing as an opportunity for emotional growth -- or at worst,  a mildly annoying way to spend a weekend.  Consider how your life would change if you had the "benefit" of the program experience (trying to sleep with lights shining in your face, with same boring food, week after week, without the warmth of human companionship, without even the privilege of wearing ordinary shoes,    day after day, months on end,  with no hope of relief until the time you can learn to lie well enough to fake your way out.  

    Come on parents,  wouldn't you be just dying to get in on these seminars? Or perhaps "dying"  is  an unfortunate choice of words...


[ This Message was edited by: scottT on 2003-07-29 21:41 ]

[ This Message was edited by: scottT on 2003-07-29 22:37 ]

Anonymous:
Scott T You wrote "Our facilitator told a person who was a victim of a hit-and-run accident that the damage was entirely her fault, and that she brought it on herself because of her "bad karma"

Your entire post was amusing.  I'm not the same ANON that posted, but I have been through the seminars.  What you obviously didn't get was that you can either believe a facilitator or not. If a facilitator actually said that, which I doubt, it was a test to see if you would actually believe it. I heard that statement, the bad karma thing from someone who had attended a VERY DIFFERENT type of seminar called PSI way back in the 70's) You can stand up for yourself and what YOU believe.  Did you just sit there and say, How dare he/she say that?  Or did you do something about it? I don't believe everything I'm told (or read for that matter)and won't hesitate to take a stand for who I am and what I believe. Funny thing is, we all have this gift...in or out of seminar.

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