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Need help from RMA staff
Anonymous:
I like your interests. I would like to talk/write further with you. I don't often write to someone un solicited so.
I went to Rma when I was fourteen. did you? I am now thirty, so I assume I may be older. I have started research for a book. don't worry it'll be autobio. It's just damn hard to open this can o' worms. Fortunatly, I wrote in notebooks throughout RMA. I had to fight to be able to keep them since they kept "negativity". I was miserable there. then finally, it's clear in my journals i felt brainwashed. Then when i was blank I was again reprogrammed with the most harebrained and unrealistic ideas. some of which are brilliant.
that's about all I want to say right now.
any response would be welcomed.
mikehunt:
i'm compiling a book of stories of people's experiences and insights within/about the schools... i'd love to include yours. email me if you're interested...
sugarmagnolia00@hotmail.com
mad:
I graduated from RMA in 1993. I was there while the school moved from the ?Family? system to the ?Team? model and was a founding member of Team Vision. Simply ? RMA saved my life and has helped me to thrive all of these years later. I continue to reflect on some of the things that I learned while I was there and sometimes have new understandings of the work that I undertook. As an adult I have also begun to uncover some of the things about the program that are no longer useful to me. RMA taught me how to look at the world in a manner that was binary ? things were good or bad, black or white, safe or unsafe, life or death. This was a very useful model for me for years. It simplified the world and helped me to make sense of the chaos that had been the tenor of my life. At 30 years old though I am finding that life can be lived subtly ? bittersweet, ironically sad, powerfully silent ? and with far more quiet compassion than my RMA experience would have led me to believe.
I write today with an invitation. If you would like to know more about my experiences at RMA or since graduating I am pleased to offer them. Know though that my understanding is that the school from which I graduated really doesn?t exist anymore. I was among the last of my kind and was at the school before the days of good psychotropic medication (indeed, no one was on any psychiatric medication), mandatory reporting (vis-à-vis students stories that involved physical or sexual abuse), and the professional boundaries that are now the hallmark of professional therapeutic practice (all staff used to go through the program as students).
To my peers on this listserv, if you would like to chat or write with someone who was at RMA I am open to a dialogue. I am not interested in bashing the school, but if you would like to make sense of your experiences there or how they have impressed on your life since, and talking with someone who has an insiders view would be useful to that journey, I am open to being part of it.
Peace and blessings, Davila
Anonymous:
Anything taht might be helpful to the current Investigation? See topic thread by investigator. It doesn't matter which school.
mad:
I knew Glen Sutton well -- more than a decade ago. He always treated me kindly and was a good friend. I do think he licked my cheek once when several of us tried to wrestle him into a snow bank and ended up losing.
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