SCOTTSDALE, AZ - James Ray is back at the microphone this weekend hosting his first self-help seminars in Arizona since getting out of prison. 
 
 The so-called self-help guru was convicted in the 2009 deaths of three people during a sweat lodge he held in Sedona. 
 
 His new seminars are shrouded in secrecy, his website only gives the dates and the city. To get an address and exact details you have buy a nearly $300 ticket. 
 
 The family of one of the victims, Kirby Brown, says James Ray shouldn’t be counseling anyone ever again. 
 
 "The prison sentence was really just a time out for him,” Said Tom McFeeley, Brown’s cousin. 
 
 McFeeley takes added offense to Ray hosting programs in Scottsdale. 
 
 “It’s really an insult to the state and the entire region where these crimes were committed," McFeeley said. 
 
 Speaking with ABC15 in June about his self-help comeback, Ray said he believes his story can help people. 
 
 "It would've been easier to do anything else, but when you find your purpose, you don't quit," Ray said. 
 
 ABC15 has learned Saturday’s seminar starts at 10 a.m. at a Scottsdale hotel. The program titled “The Conversation” is scheduled to last about three hours. ||||| (CNN) -- Self-help guru James Ray has been convicted of negligent homicide in the deaths of three participants in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony, but he was found not guilty of manslaughter charges. 
 
 The case will continue June 28, when the jury will convene to make a decision regarding aggravating circumstances in the case. 
 
 Prosecutors claimed that Ray's recklessness in operating the sweat lodge caused the deaths of Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown, New York; James Shore, 40, of Milwaukee; and Lizbeth Marie Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, Minnesota. 
 
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 They died after participating in a the ceremony organized and led by Ray in 2009. 
 
 At least 15 others who took part in the sweat lodge ceremony became ill. More than 40 others were uninjured. 
 
 Prosecutors argued that the lodge, made of willow trees and branches and covered with tarpaulins and blankets, was heated to a perilously high temperature, causing the participants to suffer dehydration and heatstroke. They also said Ray didn't monitor the temperature inside the lodge or the well-being of participants and was indifferent to those clearly having trouble. 
 
 Ray's lawyers countered that what happened was a tragic accident, not a crime. They asked witnesses who were in the sweat lodge whether they signed a release form warning them of the dangers. All replied that they signed, but some said they didn't read the form. 
 
 Ray's attorneys also suggested that exposure to an unknown toxin in the lodge -- perhaps a pesticide, rat poison or something in the type of wood used to heat the rocks -- could have caused the deaths. 
 
 Event participants paid up to $10,000 to seek "new areas of consciousness" at the October 2009 Spiritual Warrior retreat in the desert, according to trial testimony. Many had attended previous James Ray International seminars.
– A self-help author who spent nearly two years in prison for the deaths of three people following an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony is again hosting seminars in the state. Starting yesterday in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, James Arthur Ray is leading discussions on how to deal with personal crisis. His website says ticket holders can speak with Ray about challenges they face in their lives. Ray was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide in the October 2009 sweat lodge ceremony he led near Sedona. Kirby Brown of Westtown, NY; James Shore of Milwaukee; and Liz Neuman of Prior Lake, Minn., died. Tom McFeeley, Brown's cousin, tells KNXV-TV that it's an insult for Ray to hold his programs in the state where the deaths occurred. "The prison sentence was really just a time out for him," McFeeley said. But Ray said his experience could be of help to people, and added, "It would've been easier to do anything else, but when you find your purpose, you don't quit." A Ray seminar will run you nearly $300. (See how Ray reportedly sat in the shade while his followers roasted in a sweat lodge.)