July 29 • 8PM ET

Most of us, being normal human beings, tend to focus a lot on the things that are presently bothering us or are grievously missing from our lives. We unconsciously magnify the importance of those particular things, victimizing ourselves with more pain and anxiety than is absolutely necessary. 

The late Dr. John Killinger was a noted author, minister, and professor, has pastored eight churches, including the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, and has taught at such major universities as Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Chicago. His wife Anne was the author of A Son Is a Son Till He Gets a Wife: How Toxic Daughters-in-Law Destroy Families, the book that spawned the alienated parents and grandparent movement in America. He himself has written more than 70 books, including three volumes of From Poppy with Love: Letters from a Grandfather to the Grandchildren He Isn’t Allowed to See. He has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs across the U.S., and served for many years as a special seminar leader for chaplains in all branches of the American Armed Forces. ​ Among almost all the alienated grandparents I have met—and I have met many--the fact that they can’t see or enjoy regular visits with their grandchildren has assumed an exaggeratedly large role in their thinking. I have found, in my own experience of living with alienation, that it is very helpful and often necessary to consciously minimize my concentration on my grandkids, to psychologically shrink the time I give to thinking about them, and to spend more time and concentration on the other aspects of my daily living. This doesn’t mean I love those precious grandchildren—there are four of them, now aged 11 to 17—any less. It simply means that I am not allowing my grief at being unable to see and be with them to color or distort the rest of my existence. Life is simply too great and too beautiful to allow this alienation factor to diminish the wonder and glory of it!

August 5 • 8PM ET

Have you lost contact with your child because of Parental alienation? In today's presentation I will be discussing how emotions play a central role in not only the creation of parental alienation but more importantly, how they are your most important asset to fight the alienation and reconnect with your alienated child. For instance, many are not aware that every thought, behavior and action do not begin with a thought, they actually begin with a feeling. In addition, we are not born with emotions. They are learned through our experiences with our parents and the cultural definitions present at the time. Therefore, your child's reaction and distance from you is actually something they learned in their earliest years. Therefore, it is important for all of us as parents to develop emotional mastery and discover, how our own emotions and the messages we sent to our child have impacted them if we want to rebuild our connection with them. Kenny is an advocate for truth, healing, and personal responsibility! As an author, speaker, coach, teacher, and healer, Kenny specializes in helping individuals and couples heal their emotional hurts and pain from the past to reclaim their authentic selves and become the greatest version of themselves. He accomplishes this through the use of his one-of-a-kind, transformative emotional mastery method. Kenny has a unique ability to see what everyone else has missed—imparting immediate deep wisdom which generates innovative, transformative solutions that achieve rapid results while allowing each individual to pursue their healing journey at their own pace and without judgment. He accomplishes this through one-on-one appointments, his online masterclasses, his perfectly imperfect private group, his book Your Journey To Success, His Youtube channel, His podcast Heal The hurt, and his Best Days Blog which can all be found on his website, kennyweiss.net.

August 12 • 8PM ET

When you are experiencing any level of alienation from your child or grandchild it is difficult not to focus on the sadness and loss you are feeling. This presentation will explore the concept of how shifting your mindset is essential to surviving this personal crisis. We will redefine self care as an Inside Job that requires you to rethink your mindset about your current life situation and explore how persistent negative thoughts can affect your body and brain. I will also present 6 strategies for rewiring your brain, and helping you to shift into a more positive attitude and belief systems about yourself and your life. In my work with alienated parents, they often present as anxious, agitated, angry, and afraid. What is often not understood by others is how they have experienced extreme trauma in attempting to manage an unfathomable family crisis that has caused them such grief and loss. Helping these parents understand and make sense of trauma can be an extremely complexed process. Trauma can be a cruel destructive force, or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation. The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy, and the power to transform. In this workshop we will discuss the various types of trauma that affect alienated parents and their families, the effects of trauma on the body and mind, the most effective forms of treatment, 5 major misconceptions, and how the duel nature of trauma can lead to Post Traumatic Growth. Lisa Rothfus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked with families and children in private practice for over 35 years She earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from Simmons School of Social Work in Boston, Massachusetts Interned at two Harvard teaching hospitals Post master's training in Structural Family Therapy at Cambridge Family Institute in Boston, Massachusetts Specializes in counseling families transitioning through all stages of divorce and high conflict family situations Assesses and treats families affected by Parental Alienation, and offers mild, moderate, and severe Reunification Therapy Appointed by the courts in numerous Texas counties to assess and provide counseling for families experiencing alienation or estrangement issues Worked as a Guardian Ad Litem, Mediator, and Parent Facilitator/Coordinator in the Texas Courts Appointed as a Reunification Therapist for families out of states if a child resides in Texas Offers a 4-day Intensive Reunification Program out of Austin, Texas for severely alienated parents who have been awarded custody by the court of their alienated child. This program requires a “no Contact order”, and is a combination of structural family therapy, psychoeducational information, experiential therapy, and includes an extensive aftercare protocol for the alienating parent.

August 19 • 8PM ET

Most cases of alleged child sexual abuse and to a lesser degree child physical abuse are decided by the forensic interviews of the reporting victims. These cases represent the exception to the Hearsay Rule in Law (Rule 803 in many States). There are several child forensic interview protocols or methodologies, such as: RADAR (Recognizing Abuse Disclosures And Responding), RATAC (Rapport Anatomical identification Touch inquiry Abuse scenario Closure), NCA (National Children's Alliance), and the NICHD (National Institute for Child Health and Human Development), et al. The RADAR method for forensically interviewing children who've alleged abuse begins with the interviewer funneling in by asking the child open-ended questions and later funnels back out with the interviewer asking the child closed-ended questions. It is commonly used in North Carolina and Florida. The evidence-based best practices method is the NICHD which requires the interviewer ask the child interviewee open- ended questions, only, e.g. Can you tell me what happened and tell me about that. The NICHD method taps into a child's autobiographical and reconstructive memory inducing the child to provide contextual details of what allegedly happened to him or her. The Law requires that a child's credibility hinges upon that child articulating spontaneous allegations that contain an indicia of reliability and inherent degree of trustworthiness. Dean Tong, MSc., CFC holds a combined Master of Science Degree in Psychology and the Law from the Universities of Portsmouth and Leeds in the UK and a Bachelor of Science in Biology with Minors in Pre-Medicine and Psychology from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Tong is a Subject Matter Expert in the field of unfounded and false child sexual abuse allegations in cases in all Courts from all across America. He's worked high-conflict cases from all 50 States over the past 27 years, professionally so, and tendered Expert testimony in Court cases from 16 States in multiple areas of psychology and social science. He's the Author of 3 books including the critically acclaimed Elusive Innocence: Survival Guide for the Falsely Accused, as well as a scientific peer-reviewed journal article on the significance of psychosexual testing of the accused in cases of alleged child sexual assault. His scientific journal article has been read 2500 times and cited in 20 other peer-reviewed journal articles, and Tong's work has been mentioned in a dozen other published books including The Respondent. Dean Tong has appeared as a guest Expert interviewee on Focus on the Family, ABC Prime Time Live, Dr. Phil, CBS 48 Hours, Dateline, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, Court-TV, and in scores of print media stories including Rolling Stone Magazine and the National Enquirer (twice in 2022 on Johnny Depp's and Alec Baldwin's cases). He's the recipient of 2018 and 2019 Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Awards for his work. Mr. Tong's educational and informative web site which has been on the Internet since 1997 is www.abuse-excuse.com.

August 26 • 8PM ET

Theology motivated parental alienation The motives for a parent to alienate a child from the target parent are varied. However, theology and faith may play a role in motivating a parent’s alienating behaviors. Attorney Chris Smith discusses how in some instances sincerely held religious beliefs may trigger allegations of abuse and neglect or prompt a parent to feel the need to control a child’s religious upbringing and by extension their schedule. Chris identifies two real-world scenarios where theology impacts custody actions by a parent and forces the targe parent to litigate their right to a shared relationship with their children. Chris Smith is a tireless advocate for parental equality and the rights of Fathers. He has a passion for advocating for parents who are being alienated and kept from their children and it shows by his willingness to take on difficult cases. As the founder of The Smith Firm, Chris provides legal services to clients in Oklahoma and across the Midwest in the areas of domestic litigation and family law issues, including high-conflict and hard to litigate custody cases. Chris's clients include individuals, business owners, and professionals who find themselves in a high stakes divorce or custody disputes. Mr. Smith received a Bachelor of Science from Oklahoma Christian University in 2001. He then went on to attend The University of Oklahoma College of Law and earned a Juris Doctor in 2004. Over the course of his career, Mr. Smith has dedicated himself to advocating for his clients and their rights. He understands that personal and business issues can often be connected and he believes that the relationship between an attorney and his clients should be a partnership. For that reason, he strives to work with his clients to reach positive resolutions that meet their needs. Chris is the author of the Oklahoma Divorce Guidebook which is available at his firm's website, as well as Faithfully: Issues of Faith & Family Law in the 21st Century. Staying active in the legal community is a priority for Mr. Smith. He is a member of numerous associations, including the Family Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Texas State Bar, the American Bar Association Family Law Section, and the Oklahoma County Bar Association. He has spoke at South-by-Southwest, pitched at the Clio Cloud Conference, and presented on various issues relating to law and technology. Mr. Smith has also provided commentary for television and print media on issues of legal policy that affect workers in the legal field. Chris Smith may be reached at chris@thesmithfirm.net, or follow him on Instagram and Facebook at @attychrissmith or visit www.thesmithfirm.net.