Re: Query for anyone with experience in an LGAT-based organisation

(Protected by the First Amendment of the United States of America)

Here is a scenario to worry about.

I piously hope this has never happened and never will happen.

There are many reports that in LGAT seminars, subjects are encouraged
even pressured to divulge intimate details of their lives.

Here is something Corboy hopes will never happen.

Suppose you trustfully sign up for an LGAT.

You have written on social media how a beloved parent died. Or your lover dumped
you and you're really torn up.

In the course of the LGAT, you are pushed to talk about intimate details of your life.

Suppose you do NOT want to mention your bereavement.

You are exercising your human right to keep things to yourself until you
decide you feel safe. You do not feel safe in the LGAT setting.

Sure, you have mentioned
it on social media. Like many of us, you assume social media is just you and your friends.

We are biased to FORGET that social media is searchable by anyone unless we take
detailed precautions -- something not easy to do as lots of social media platforms are not set up to assist us to protect our own privacy.

Suppose this fictional LGAT has researched you and found your social media discussions where you are grieving about your loss and getting condolences.

So whoever is running this fictional LGAT knows that you have suffered a loss,
you've mentioned it on a social media platform.

But you are NOT mentioning it during this particular LGAT.

So they know you are holding something back.

Now (cough) we can only hope (rolling eyes heavenward) that LGAT personnel
will never, ever push us to reveal they know we have mentioned
on social media but have not chosen to disclose during the LGAT sessions.

We can only hope.