"People that wanted to get arrested got arrested," Michael Kink, an organizer, told participants.

"Our attention is turning to exit financing and the development of an exit plan," Mr. Walsh told participants on the call.

Accountability is manipulated by telling participants that they will later have an opportunity to justify their judgments of voluntariness to a trial judge.

This, the Federal tax auditors said, did not adequately tell participants that the gifts were optional, as the trust said they were.

"The courts couldn't care less today," she told participants at the workshop.

A few minutes earlier, the auctioneer had told participants that using a mobile phone or leaving the room was against the rules.

Instead of simply telling participants what to do differently, they designed the program to help them act their way into a new way of thinking.

He said senior military officers had told participants in the flights that the church hierarchy sanctioned the missions as "a Christian form of death."

He is also particularly blunt, and often tells participants to "shut up."

Ms. Coore told participants to prepare themselves mentally.