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CEDU lifeboat

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Samara:
Yep, 5-7 days of experentials.

Raps were several times a week for four hours a pop. But every so often, we'd have a propheet (series of experentials in an isolated, highly manipulated environment, deprived of sleep etc.)... the propheets could be 24 hours to a week. Your last propheets were workshops lasting 3 days to a week so if you wre not sufficiently fucked up before you certainly were by the end of it. It was just endless psychodramas, experentials, brutal encounter groups and dyads and humiliating role playing.  

All propheets were enshrouded under a huge cloud of secrecy. Divulging the program would be a big a$$ no-no.  

After the torture and isolation from the rest of the school, you came back in a big joyous dance-a-thon to show to all who have not participated that you were "Saved." Hallelujah,baby! Truth was, you were just so damn happy to be out of it, you were elated.

lifeboat:

--- Quote from: "Inculcated" ---Understood and THX for the answer. What other kinds of characters were there? Were they assigned or selected?
Additionally: what was their stated purpose of the Winnie the pooh thing?
--- End quote ---

- Indiana Jones
- Peter pan
- Cnderalla

They were assigned

The purpose of Winnie the poo was to "role play" when I was angry.  I could "take a look at myself."

Gonzotherapy:
Well, I won the lifeboat. I lived. So David Gilcrease can suck it. That exercise was stupid as hell. Stupid seminars...

lifeboat:
The funeral

This was a very hard experience for me.  I could never imagine seeing my friends mourning for me the way that I saw them from outside the casket.  I started to think about my brother, sister, when I was watching my friends walk away from me.  Reading the epitat sucks to read because I had to write about how other people saw me.  Reading that made me really sad when I started reading about my grandma and the fun we used to have when I was swimming in her pool.  I was very sad when I read last messages.  Some of my best friends were on there.  Reading off the last statements made me really sad in general.  I some tears in peoples eyes that were my good friends.  I saw my cousin ***** really hurting, I saw my best friends Megan, Am****a and Alex very sad.  I saw my brother and sister at the funeral and that made me really sad because they are the only two left out of my family.  My sister was saying, "My favorite big brother died" and I got really sad when I thought about about how my brother would be screwed with.  He has seen quite a bit in his own life.  I also imagine that the casket was right next to my moms and we were talking.  I thought about her allot in the Summit workshop.

lifeboat:
http://wiki.fornits.com/index.php?title ... %28CEDU%29


The Funeral    

This is a follow-up to the lifeboat exercise, and is done the next day. It begins by the staff telling the students that the lifeboat sunk, so everyone drowned. The participants are then required to write their own epitaph, and read it in front of the group. After the student finishes, they go and lay on their backs on the floor. When everyone is prone, students are subjected to guided imagery that they are getting buried. This exercise in the 70s also involved the students getting covered in comforters, simulating dirt being thrown on top of them. However, too many students were panicking and vomiting, so that practice was abolished. During the guided imagery part, staff will occasionally call out names of people who have died that individuals in the peer group knew. The staff then states that the students may sit up when, and only when, they are ready to get on with their life.

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