The Manipulation Decoder
Twelve lessons on how manipulation actually works, taught by someone who has spent years sitting across from the people who do it.
Most of what's written about manipulation comes from the outside. This course comes from a decade in the frontline response to domestic abuse, including direct work inside a perpetrator intervention programme, listening to people describe what they do at home and why. That perspective is what makes this course different from almost everything else you'll find. Each lesson explains the mechanism rather than handing you a label.
What's inside
Twelve video lessons, each one taking a single tactic and showing you how it works, why it works particularly well on capable and thoughtful people, and what it sounds like in ordinary conversation.
- Why You Couldn't See It Clearly
- Why They Did It
- Love Bombing
- Gaslighting
- JADE
- Minimisation
- Impression Management
- DARVO
- Trauma Bonding and Intermittent Reinforcement
- Entrapment
- Intimate Partner Terrorism
- Coercive Control as Self-Policing
Plus the companion workbook, one page per lesson, which becomes something worth keeping by the time you reach the end.
How it works
Instant access the moment you buy, added straight to your library. Watch at your own pace and keep it for good. The lessons are short and self-contained, so one a day is plenty and some people take one a week. Everything sits behind a private login that looks like any other online learning site.
Who it's for
Anyone trying to make sense of a relationship that left them doubting their own judgement. It works whether the relationship ended years ago or you're still in it. If you're still in it, the course opens with a short note on keeping your notes private, and it won't push you toward any decision at all. It gives you accurate information about what's happening, and what you do with that stays entirely yours.
One thing worth being clear about: this is education rather than therapy, and it isn't a substitute for it. If you're working with a counsellor, it sits alongside that work.
The price
£47. Yours for life.
14 day money-back guarantee if it isn't right for you, no questions asked.