Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
What are WWASPS "Discovery" and "Focus" seminars like?
Anonymous:
BULLDOG?
Anonymous:
Your "stretch" during Focus is like your big culminating induction into the world of the robots. You've earned your wings, know your program-speak, and are ready to recruit others into the cult and promise to support the program's clawlike grasp around your kid's neck.
You're assigned to a solo or group performance, like Kiss or En Vogue, and you dress up. You sing along with the song and pretend to be a rockstar. Like those cute 'lil preteen sweats that say "Rockstar" in pink across the front. And the whole time you're being a rockstar you're also Caring, Powerful, and all the other adjectives you put in your contract from Discovery seminar. Anyway, back to the stretch. After you sing and dance, you get feedback on how real you were or weren't. If you don't pass, you are told to redo it until everyone "gets" you. Maybe half your group passes at first, maybe all of you, this goes into the night until everyone is really real.
Then the group holds a few of you at a time while your song is played. They rock you and touch you and say nice things. When they put you back down, you take turns doing the same to all of the others. Then you're supposed to be a whole new person. This is highly secretive for whatever reason. My roommate told me in advance like it was the shizzle and then when it happened I was not that impressed. You better just shut your yapper if any of this seems weird to you or you won't pass and have to do the whole thing over again.
trnsz:
Hey Steve Clark. When were you there?
trnsz:
BTW - I totally agree with Nihilanthic about the seminars!
What's funny is I remember the processes and such, but I can't remember any of my "lame adjectives" from Discovery, or my "song" from Focus, etc. Maybe thinking it was a scam the whole time didn't help make a good impression.
I do remember you had to yell it really really loud (for the adjectives at the end of discovery), and for the song you sing in Focus. The louder you were the less fake you were. Even less "fake" if you cry alot. Being able to "fake cry" or at least make youself have tears on demand is essential to passing if you don't give a shit. :)
The one thing that was left out here which was interesting at the end of the seminar, before the cuddling and all actually that, you fall back into everyones arms (like backwards with your eyes closed off a table or chair or something), while they play "your" song. I guess that is supposedly going to make you gain trust people or what? Who knows?
I know Lou did Discovery when I did it. Can't remember for the others. Which was the seminar with the lifeboat "skit", BTW? That's the lamest one I remember.
Anyway, seminars are emotional and often embarassing, but not really theraputic. Where they seem to work is to make you "part of the group" tho.
Oh yeah, all this is top secret too, if you tell other prisoners about it, they say: a) by knowing what will happen, it'll be impossible to pass (be real) and you'll never advance in the levels (BS/scare tactics), b) "consequences" are given out, and nobody wants those.
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-- dbamsal@hotmail.com[ This Message was edited by: trnsz on 2005-12-01 23:20 ][ This Message was edited by: trnsz on 2005-12-01 23:23 ]
Anonymous:
The lifeboat, telling us John Denver DID it and wrote a song...really he was a wacko....destroyed a kitchen in ASPEN, then killed himself!! I was not impressed.
ALso the lifeboat experience.was difficult..standing there telling someone to their face 'you die' wow that was excurciating!!! I do not want my child to have that seminar experience. Funny my 'educated' husband did not GET that whole thing till the next day. ANd we were in the same room but not allowed to speak..........my focus buddy was a wacko also.
could go on and on...but why bother..its all crap.
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