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1. Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how she or he is being
changed a step at a time. Potential new members are led, step by step,
through a behavioral-change program without being aware of the final agenda
or full content of the group. The goal may be to make them deployable agents
for the leadership, to get them to buy more courses, or get them to make a
deeper commitment, depending on the leader's aim and desires.
2. Control the person's social and/or physical environment; especially
control the person's time. Through various methods, newer members are kept
busy and led to think about the group and its content during as much of
their waking time as possible.
3. Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person. This is
accomplished by getting members away from the normal social support group
for a period of time and into an environment where the majority of people
are already group members. The members serve as models of the attitudes and
behaviors of the group and speak an in-group language.
4. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments and experiences in such a way
as to inhibit behavior that reflects the person's former social identity.
Manipulation of experiences can be accomplished through various methods of
trance induction, including leaders using such techniques as paced speaking
patterns, guided imagery, chanting, long prayer sessions or lectures, and
lengthy meditation sessions.
5. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to
promote learning the group's ideology or belief system and group-approved
behaviors. Good behavior, demonstrating an understanding and acceptance of
the group's beliefs, and compliance are rewarded while questioning,
expressing doubts or criticizing are met with disapproval, redress and
possible rejection. If one expresses a question, he or she is made to feel
that there is something inherently wrong with them to be questioning.
6. Put forth a closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure that
permits no feedback and refuses to be modified except by leadership approval
or executive order. The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The leaders
must have verbal ways of never losing. (Singer, 1995)
For more see:
http://members.theglobe.com/bgross3
http://members.xoom.com/bgross3
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