EXIT Social Cooperative Society (EXIT SCS) ONLUS
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Italy
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Name
EXIT Social Cooperative Society (EXIT SCS) ONLUS |
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Target audience
Violent extremists |
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Organisation
EXIT SCS |
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Objectives
Facilitating exit and distancing processes |
Description
EXIT SCS is a cooperative social enterprise (NGO) made by professionals that provide specialised social services in prevention and intervention with violence and psychological abuse in different sectors of society as harassment/bullying at the workplace and in schools, domestic abuse, maltreatment in groups, especially in religious cults and manipulative/high demand groups (RAN, 2018).
EXIT facilitators come from counselling, education, law, mediation, and psychotherapy. Throughout their work they have observed that abuse through religious and psychological cult groups often coincide with issues of xenophobia, group-oriented hatred, racism, extremism, and hate crime.
In facilitating distancing and disengagement processes, EXIT practitioners use intensive one-on-one settings that employ strategies of empowerment/coping, resilience, reflexion, biography work, family counselling, conflict transformation and mediation. On a second level strategies of enhancing critical thinking and responsibility of choice are applied that may compare to civic education strategies in other countries. The EXIT methodology follows principles of social and psychotherapeutic interaction, as build-up of empathy, trust and work-relationship, confidentiality, clear contract, commitment to non-manipulative procedures and quality management.
A particularly promising aspect of the EXIT approach might be that it effectively attempts to synthesise the practice areas of workplace harassment, domestic violence, cultic self-subjugation, and violence through of political, religious or hate motivated contexts.
EXIT SCS is a cooperative social enterprise (NGO) made by professionals that provide specialised social services in prevention and intervention with violence and psychological abuse in different sectors of society as harassment/bullying at the workplace and in schools, domestic abuse, maltreatment in groups, especially in religious cults and manipulative/high demand groups (RAN, 2018).
EXIT facilitators come from counselling, education, law, mediation, and psychotherapy. Throughout their work they have observed that abuse through religious and psychological cult groups often coincide with issues of xenophobia, group-oriented hatred, racism, extremism, and hate crime.
In facilitating distancing and disengagement processes, EXIT practitioners use intensive one-on-one settings that employ strategies of empowerment/coping, resilience, reflexion, biography work, family counselling, conflict transformation and mediation. On a second level strategies of enhancing critical thinking and responsibility of choice are applied that may compare to civic education strategies in other countries. The EXIT methodology follows principles of social and psychotherapeutic interaction, as build-up of empathy, trust and work-relationship, confidentiality, clear contract, commitment to non-manipulative procedures and quality management.
A particularly promising aspect of the EXIT approach might be that it effectively attempts to synthesise the practice areas of workplace harassment, domestic violence, cultic self-subjugation, and violence through of political, religious or hate motivated contexts.