Survivorship Notes



Survivorship Notes

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Vol. 188 No. 5 and 6

May and June, 2015

The Notes, formerly called Chart Notes, ISSN 1523-275, is published bimonthly, copyright © 1999-2015 by Survivorship, Family Justice Center, 470 27th Street, Oakland, CA 94612. All rights reserved. The entire contents of this issue are copyrighted by Survivorship and by the individual contributors. Contact Survivorship, or email info@ for permission to reprint. Survivorship is a nonprofit organization.

Dear Survivorship Community,

Our conference is ‘just around the corner’. If you haven’t registered yet, there is but a little time left



conference2015reg@ 

As of June 1, Shamai will be stepping off of the board of directors and the many loving hours she has put into supporting your journeys. Best of luck Shamai

The Survivorship Board of Directors

Micci, Neil, Spence

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Ritual Calendar 2015- Difficult Days

May

5/1 Beltane ( May Day) Fire festival/celtic festival, Greatest Sabbat, fertility rites/open fields

5/4 Full Moon 5/5 Cinque de Mayo

5/5 May day (Ireland) 5/7 Lag B’Omer (birthday of Jewish Mysticism) 5/8 V-E Day

5/9-5/13 Lumeria (three days Roman All Souls)

5/10 Mother’s Day

5/18 New Moon 5/21 Armed Forces Day

5/21 Ascension Day

5/22 Israel Independence Day (Yom Haatzmaut) 5/23 Shavuot 5/24 Pentecost 5/25 Memorial Day

5/29, 5/30 Memory day dedicated to Joan of Arc

June

6/2 Full Moon 6/3 Eastern orthodox Ascension Day 6/6 Queen Elizabeth’s birthday ( New Zealand 6/1 West Australia 6/28)

6/6 D Day (invasion of France in WW2)

6/16 New Moon 6/18 First day of the fast of Ramadan: Islamic 6/21 Father’s Day 6/21 First Nation’s Day Canada

6/21 Summer Solstice (orgies)

6/21 Rituals of the Elements and Feast of the Times

6/23 Midsummer’s Eve

6/23 St. John’s Eve Fire Festival

6/24 Lighting the Midwinter Bonfires in New Zealand 4/30-5/5 Grand Climax/Da Meur/ Beltane (blood)

CONFERENCES, WEBINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND TRAINING

First Person Plural Understanding & Working with Dissociation May 14- June 19, 2015 Manchester, UK

Male Survivor: Weekends of Recovery

May 15 -17, 2015 Blue Ridge Level 1 Blue Ridge, NC July 17- 19, 2015 Guest House Level 1 Chester, CT August 7-9, 2015 Advanced Alta, UT September 18- 20, 2015 Alta Level 1 Alta, UT October 16 – 18, 2015 Hope Springs Level 1 Peebles, OH

Organized Ritual Violence

July 25 -26 and September 5, 2015 Bremen, Germany nivt@nivt.de

nivt.de

PODS

Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and Dissociation

May 23, 2015 Bristol 

October 3, 2015 Belfast October 17, 2015 Birmingham

Working with Relational Trauma – Attachment and Healthy Relationships

May 9, 2015 Exeter

May 16, 2015 Manchester

Trauma, Dissociation and Recovery: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder and Complex PTSD.”

June 20,  2015 Huntingdon

June 27, 2015 Bradford

July 11, 2015 Sutton Coldfield

July 18, 2015 London

  November 7, 2015 Crawley

November 28,  2015 Bristol

December 5, 2015  Huntingdon

info@pods-.uk



Safeguarding Children Ongoing training North Yorkshire, UK

Trauma Center International Trauma Conference May 27 - 30, 2015 Boston, MA Summer Training Institute July 20 - 24, 2015 Cape Cod, MA Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Certification Program

September 11-13, 2015

Trauma and Contemplative Practice May 1-2, 2015 Cambridge, MA

Preventing Child Abuse One Child at a Time

May 2nd, 2015 Amarillo, TX

Child Maltreatment Conference May 7-8, 2015

La Crosse, Wisconsin



Identify the Problems, Focusing on Solutions May 8-9 2015 Iowa

Children's Justice Conference May 11-12, 2015 Seattle, WA

Battered Mothers Custody Conference: Hands Across the Water!  

May 15-17, 2015

Secaucus, NJ

(201) 348-6900



Survivorship: Support Along the Path

May 16-17, 2015

Oakland, CA

Child Aware May 18-19, 2015 Melbourne,. Australia

For America's Children

May 18-21, 2014 Jacksonville, FL

National Judicial Institute on Domestic Child Sex Trafficking May 19-20, 2015 Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Self behind the Self May 21, 2015 The Netherlands

Child Abuse Prevention Conference May 25, 2015 Los Angeles, CA

Crimes Against Children Conference May 26-28, 2015 Cheyenne, Wyoming

Psychological Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment, and Therapeutic Interventions

May 27 – 30, 2015 Boston, MA.

Child Abuse Paediatrics

June 1-5, 2015

Uppsala, Sweden

Child Abuse & Neglect Institute June 1-5, 2015 Reno, Nevada

Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect June 3-5, 2015



International Conference on Trauma, Dissociation and Psychosis June 3-5, 2015 Kristiansand, Norway

Domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse June 4-5, 2015 Boise, Idaho

Exploitation of Women and Children: Global Perspectives June 10-12, 2015 Lancaster, PA

One Child, Many Hands

June 10-12, 2015 Philadelphia , PA

Debra Schilling Wolfe

(215) 573-9779

onechild@sp2.upenn.edu

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Trauma in Changing Societies

June 10-13, 2015 Vilnius, Lithuania

Group Therapy, Perpetrator Attachment, and Social Neurobiology

June 11 – 13, 2015 Leipzig, Germany

Trauma Informed Care June 14-17, 2015 Atlanta, GA

How safe are our children?

June 17-18, 2015

London, UK

Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect June 24-26, 2015 Perth, Western Australia

SNAP Conference July 31-August 2, 2015 Alexandria, VA

SMART

August 7-8, 2015

Windsor Locks, CT



Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect

May 22 - 25, 2016 Stockholm, Sweden.



NEWS AND LINKS

Rochdale child sex ring No officers to be charged over Rochdale child abuse failure, say police



 

Cyril Smith child abuse probe 'scrapped after his arrest'



 

Undercover elite child sex abuse investigation 'scrapped by police commanders'

BBC Newsnight has claimed that an undercover police operation in possession of evidence that a member of the security services and a prominent MP were involved in child abuse was scrapped by commanders shortly after investigating officers sought to make arrests 



 

Enoch Powell is named by bishop in sex abuse probe: Scotland Yard to investigate satanic abuse claim - and demands to see filed held on serving MPs

   

 

Police ‘covered up child sex abuse by actors and priests’

 

MI5 'hid' child abuse at boys' home: Former Army intelligence officer claims security chiefs told him to 'stop digging' when he reported possible paedophile ring

    Brian Gemmell said spy chiefs ordered him to 'stop digging' at boys' home

    Former Army Intelligence officer claims MI5 covered up the sexual abuse

    Staff jailed in 1980s for sexual abuse at notorious Kincora children's home



 

Kincora historic VIP paedophile ring - shock revelations  Tuesday 07 April 2015

A Kincora abuse victim from Northern Ireland has told Channel 4 News how he was also abused at London's Elm Guest House and Dolphin Square at the hands of "very powerful people"



 

 

Michael Jackson Allegedly Paid $200 Million to 20 Child Sex Abuse Victims



 

Bitcoin's Blockchain Offers Safe Haven For Malware And Child Abuse, Warns Interpol



ON-GOING MEETINGS AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

More information is available at

Adult Survivors of Child Abuse-ongoing meetings/Beyond Surviving

Second Thursday of each month, 6:00-8:00 PM

Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart St., San Francisco, CA



ASCA (Adult Survivors of Child Abuse)

On-going meetings in CA, FL, IL, NE, NJ, NY, NC, RI, and South Africa

info@



Christina Arguello



Intensive Trauma Therapy, Morgantown, WV.

Free Thursday morning Trauma Seminars

info@traumatherapy.us



Survivors of Incest Anonymous

SIA holds 12-step meetings for incest survivors. Those designated “Nothing Too Heavy to Share” meetings are designed for ritual abuse survivors.

410-282-3400



SIA Coming Home phone meeting

Daily at 11:30 am and 9pm eastern time.

1 712 432 8808 code is 742247 then press 5 once you're in.

Trauma Center at JRI

Free lecture each Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m., Brookline, MA

moreinfo@

617- 232-1303

training/workshops.php

Womencare Counseling Center

Weekly ongoing groups, Evanston, IL

info@

847-475-7003



Women’s Center, 46 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, MA

Weekly and monthly groups for survivors of child sexual abuse, incest survivor’s interfaith quilt project, Survivors of Incest Anonymous, eating disorder support group, emotional healing group, more.

info@

Phone: 617-354-6394

Helpline. 617-354-8807



Dissociation & Trauma Clinical Discussions

The Dissociation & Trauma Clinical Discussions (DissTCD) list has been created to allow for clinical discussions for all licensed mental health counselors and retired licensed mental health counselors around the world. If you have a related license or degree, please write for more information at DissTCD-owner@

Survivorship is presenting this as information and cannot guarantee your safety. If you choose to get involved, please know that you are choosing to do this at your own risk. We advise having a back up support system in place before. If you know of other groups that are active and have been helpful, please do let us know.

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) 

HOTLINES FAMILIAR WITH RA ISSUES

* Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR): 510-845-7273

* San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR): 415-647-7273

* Women’s Center, Cambridge, MA: 617-354-8807

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