Anneke Lucas is a survivor of extreme child abuse and was trafficked in exclusive, international circles. Because her perpetrators were both powerful and organized and the abuse was extreme, she has spent decades working through the countless emotionally triggering events related to power and empowerment. Relating her own experiences of power abuse both in her childhood as well as on her long healing journey, she shows that the need to substitute wounded self-esteem with power, position, or status is present everywhere, and that societal hierarchy is in fact trauma-based. She evokes emotional resonance with her approach of intertwining her personal experiences with the larger societal questions around power. She introduces a psychological application she has developed and teaches, which looks at power dynamics between victims and perpetrators both on the personal and global levels. She addresses the psychological mechanisms which underlie human interactions and which shape the global hierarchy. Attendees will walk away with a new awareness of how we each participate in the toxic power structure through our own projections of power and tools to use our own upward or downward projections as a lens into unresolved trauma or unmet emotional needs. This talk invites everyone to become empowered from within, in the context of healing the world.
Trigger Warning: This presentation contains information (written, spoken, or visual) that may be triggering or (re)traumatizing to attendees.
Anneke Lucas is an author, speaker, advocate for sex trafficking victims, and creator of the Unconditional Model. Her work is based on personal experience of a 35-year healing journey as a survivor of extreme abuse. Anneke’s book “Quest for Love: Memoir of a Child Sex Slave,” was published in 2022.