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Propheet
A 24 hour workshop. Named after Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet". (Putting "feet" under the "prophet" IE: Taking "tools" and turning them into action) Passages from the prophet are read at one point in each propheet. During the Wasserman years, there were 7 propheets and two workshops. The propheets employed sleep-deprivation, humiliation, occasional exposure to large variations in temperature, guided imagery, loud and repetitive music, regression therapy, bizarre ritual, and forced emoting. This normally resulted in a feeling of euphoria and exhaustion after the experience. Certain propheets actually caused students to temporarily lose their voice. Propheets contained exercises which used metaphor to convey their message. Each propheet, with the exception of the last one, also consisted of disclosures and a lengthy rap where everyone in the room was spoken to. The students are "allowed" what appears on the surface to be a one hour nap the next day. However, staff walk amongst the kids as they try to fall asleep on the floor, and when they notice that the last one has fallen asleep, they wake up the students and tell them that the hour nap is over. After you complete a propheet, you are sworn to secrecy. However, you are allowed to speak to students who have already been through the experience. The list of propheets are The Truth, The Childrens, The Brothers Keeper, The Dreams, The I Want to Live, The Values and The Imagine. The two, multi-day workshops, are the I & Me and the Summit. They employ similar techniques, but the structure is very different, and the intensity is stepped up significantly. The last workshop, the Summit, was based on the Large Group Awareness Training seminar Lifespring. Wasserman purchased the rights to use the workshop at his own school, in addition to adding his own exercises.
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Taking Care of Your Feelings
This meant doing what you believe is expected of you in a rap. Understood as a need to "run your anger" or cry. Indoctrinated students believed this to be a necessity for their mental well-being. There was a common fear that if a student went too long without doing this, something bad would happen...IE: A punishment or getting Reamed.
"Where are you at?"
This was a common question, referring to how you are feeling. Although that term is common in regular culture, it held a different level of significance at CEDU. "Where are you at?" was often asked at the beginning and/or end of an indictment...
Indict/Indictment
When a staff or student confronts another student in a rap. Most often, this is done through browbeating, screaming, and abusive and embarrassing dialogue. This is normally because the student being indicted did something to anger the other person, or because they are considered to be "not growing", "out of agreement", or any other number of reasons or non-reasons. Occasionally, an indictment will be civil and kept at a decent volume. When a student is indicted, the person indicting them must sit across from them, since it was considered too intimidating to have a person sitting right next to you scream in your face. If a student was sitting in the wrong position and wanted to talk to the student being yelled at, they were required to get up and trade chairs with someone across the room from that person. You could also indict yourself in a rap, by saying "I need to talk". Self-indictments were known as "creating space". Sometimes, instead of saying "I need to talk", a student would say "I need space."..
Ice Breaker
A propheet exercise, done in the beginning, that is normally funny, or tries to be, but most often employs some level of humiliation. It is used to lull the students into a feeling of security to ease their nerves before the more intense exercises...
Side Conversation
A conversation you are having with someone in a rap, while the rest of the members are focused on someone else. Literally, having a conversation "on the side". Forbidden...
Blown Away
Being screamed at in a rap. This was abuse of the worst degree. The goal in any rap situation was to bring a child/teen to tears and/or tear them down. The problem with this method was the lack of "building back up," which never happened. Synonymous with "Reamed a new asshole"..
"My gut is flipping."
Accusatory statement implying that the person you are addressing is lying or acting in a dishonest or suspicious manner. Can also be phrased "That makes my gut flip."..
Propheet Scroll
Each propheet was represented by a paper scroll. On this scroll were the xeroxed lyrics to a song that was associated with the workshop, in addition to a drawing. A student who was getting someone out of a propheet would color one in and bring it to present to the participant when the propheet was over. Most students thumbtacked the scrolls of their most recent propheets onto the wall in their bunk space...
Older/Younger Student
This needs to be specified simply for clarification that this is not indicative of a student's age, but rather, where they are at in the program. Older = upper school, younger = lower school...
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