About this event
You may well have been intrigued or even mystified at the title of this event. What is spiritual or cultic abuse, and what has it to do with autism, or being autistic?
As an autistic survivor of spiritual abuse, I would say: a surprising amount. Both in that autistic people are for many reasons particularly vulnerable to this kind of abuse and in that the “cult pseudo-personality” and “autistic masking or camouflaging” have a great deal in common.
Whether you already have some understanding of the phrases “cult pseudo-personality” and / or “autistic masking or camouflaging” or whether one or both is new to you, then this workshop is for you.
By the end of this session you should have a clearer idea about the nature of spiritual abuse and of autistic masking, and of the link between the two, and so of how to approach clients presenting with one or the other – or both.
RECORDING
This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
SELF-SELECT FEE
The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Max Marnau
Max Marnau is a person-centred therapist living in the Scottish Borders. As the autistic daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Nazis, she feels a particular affinity with all the exiled, the othered, and the displaced. Among whom she counts both autistic people and survivors of abusive cults.
Her parents quite consciously did not transmit their culture to her for fear of making her an outsider. That’s quite funny, given that she’s autistic! She sees herself as a second-generation exile who never quite fitted anywhere, and that may have made her particularly vulnerable to the attractions of an apparently friendly and supportive cult with clear rules.
With the understanding that she is autistic came the discovery of her tribe, and Max has become an “out, loud and proud” autistic psychotherapist, activist, writer, and trainer.
