Leadership Dilemmas

Dilemma #1
To Train or Not to Train?

Dilemma #2
Charges of sexual harassment, but no direct evidence

Dilemma #3
Pagan leader is abusive to students.

Do you have an opinoin or a dilemma to pose? Then...

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Dilemma #3

Pagan Community Leader
is Abusive to Students

Through multiple sources within the local Pagan community, word comes to you about a leader who is abusive to his/her students. This abuse includes some or all of the following practices:

* requiring drugs/alcohol as part of ritual practice, even if the student is a recovering alcoholic/drug addict

* using sex as part of the recruiting process to get new members

* telling students that they need to move into the group house in order to receive training, and then charging a great deal of money for staying there. This makes it nearly impossible for students to leave, because they have little money left.

* targeting students under the age of 18

You know this information because you have actually talked to people who have been his/her students, so this is not second or third hand gossip.

Do you:

1) Actively warn members within the community?

2) Keep silent? People need to figure it out for themselves.

3) Do something in-between.

This question posed on December 31, 2000.