Critical Thinking and Coercion

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Critical Thinking and Coercion Course

Objective: To help adult students to learn thinking skills, recognize coercion and manipulation, understand basic cult psychology, and have the tools to stay safe from situations in the future which would impede their free agency and critical thinking.

Session 1    – Critical Thinking

Session 2    – Thinking for Yourself

Session 3   – How the Brain Works

Session 4   – Manipulation and Coercion

Session 5    – Authoritarian Control and Cult Psychology

Session 6    – Healing and Staying Safe + Graduation!

 

I learned that even when we think we are thinking for ourselves, there are invisible influences that have tremendous power over our critical thinking. There were videos on psychological priming that showed shocking examples of people who thought they were making their own decisions, but their behavior changed for reasons they weren’t even aware of. This was amazing to me.
Participant
I learned how predators groom and manipulate. Some people even disguise their intentions as religious to save everyone else, when in reality, they have predatory intentions from the beginning. I missed many red flags that are so clear to me now.
Participant
Learning about the power of expectation had a huge influence on me. I watched a video about smart mice and dumb mice. It gripped me to see how when they expected the mice to be smarter, they were smarter. The power of suggestion can make you feel things emotionally and physically and see and hear things that aren’t even there.
Participant
I learned that even when we think we are thinking for ourselves, there are invisible influences that have tremendous power over our critical thinking. There were videos on psychological priming that showed shocking examples of people who thought they were making their own decisions, but their behavior changed for reasons they weren’t even aware of. This was amazing to me.
Participant
There are so many things that will help me stay safe and keep my family safe in the future. Understanding how some people have personality traits which allow them to hurt others while putting on a grand show of goodness. That was something I really couldn’t have imagined before.
Participant
The class was extremely inclusive and shockingly revealing. It helped me better understand my previous and current conditions. It helped me realize that I was still in denial about some things. It has increased my confidence in my ability to understand, manage, and protect myself and family from predatorial advances from dangerous people.
Participant

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