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1:27:25Now PlayingThis webinar continues our discussion of Mind Control and Colonization, this time focusing on the following questions:
• How does undue influence get people to do unethical things and defend them?
• How do mind control and undue influence work in relation to First Nations and Indigenous Services Canada?
• Do social psychology experiments help us understand how undue influence and mind control work?
• How can you recognize undue influence in yourself and others, and how can you intervene?
• What types of remedies already exist within our communities?
Speakers are Dr. Cindy Blackstock and Brittany Mathews of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society and Dr. Steven Hassan of Freedom of Mind Resource Centre.
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Dr. Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitxsan First Nation and is honoured to serve as the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and a professor at McGill University’s School of Social Work. She has over 30 years of experience working in child welfare and Indigenous children’s rights and has published more than 75 articles on topics relating to reconciliation, Indigenous theory, First Nations child welfare, and human rights.
Dr. Steven Hassan is an internationally recognized expert on cults, brainwashing, and authoritarian control. He is also a licensed mental health professional and founder of the Freedom of Mind Resource Centre, which provides training, consulting, and support to individuals who are struggling to leave or recover from a cult and to families and organizations that are concerned about cult behaviours. Dr.
Brittany Mathews (she/her) is Michif and a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Her family more recently comes from St. Paul, Alberta with kinship relations from St. Francois Xavier in Manitoba. Brittany is passionate about the role that human rights, most especially the rights of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children and youth, play in achieving justice. She believes that this can happen through ensuring an ethical standard of relations between generations of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit and non-Indigenous peoples. Brittany has an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous Studies and a minor in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from the University of Ottawa.
For more info, contact FNCARES (First Nations Children's Action Research and Education Service): fncares@ualberta.ca or visit www.fncaringsociety.com/fncares
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