AUTHOR: Virginia - (United States of America) SUBMITTED: Thursday, May 10, 2012. // MY SIGN: Aries Sun, Sagittarius Rising, Cancer Moon. Landmark refers inquiries in this department to a letter by Forum graduate Edward Lowell, a New Jersey psychiatrist who states in no uncertain terms that Landmark does not use brainwashing techniques. NOTE: This blog was reviewed and updated in June, 2020 SC writes: "My sister, a confirmed Catholic and the godmother of my daughter, attended a Landmark Forum last weekend in Cincinnati. <> MERCURY IN ARIES <> 4/3 through 4/19 <> Mercur, With her new book, Transitory Nature: Breaking Bin, SEXUAL HEALING: FINDING F***ING ENLIGHTENMENT. People start to laugh, some are cracking up! But I was waiting. To see more documents/articles regarding this group/organization/subject click here. I hear their trigger finger is pretty twitchy on the old ‘suing for defamation’ gun. The dictionary definition of “brainwashing” is; “to make (someone) adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure”. Eye's are still closed. So here goes! Listen for the mantra "I get it." The reason to join the Landmark Forum – henceforth referred to as LF – was an interesting narration of experience by a good neighbor friend who was hugely benefited by attending the forum a couple of years ago. True, nobody forced me to do the Landmark Forum – I actually decided to sign up because I knew so many amazing, go-getting, and seemingly highly-evolved individuals who’d done it, and I basically wanted a piece. The way we work and think socially, morally (that's a Landmark no-no word), and logically are broken down in a very easy to relate to way. View Disclaimer. "Your heart is pounding!" I regret wearing this belt. I got called this morning by one of the Landmark soldiers. Again and again The Leader repeats the concept, all the while making statements like, "There IS something wrong with you" "You don't belong" "You are fearful" "Being on your own scares you" "You are incomplete" "You must have transformation." Landmark Forum is an empty box to be filled with treasures that only your imagination can provide. 4. There is a constant reference to Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc.and the worldly impact they have made. Attack therapy and the Landmark Forum. All so that when you think of Landmark you think of deep emotion, upset, and revelation when all the while you are learning basic techniques to analyze yourself and those around you. Because of what would seem to be an innocuous move on my part (remaining seated when told to stand to “promise” to abide by the “recommendations” of Landmark with regard to the Forum, things such as limited bathroom breaks and all kinds of other weird stuff), the Forum leader demanded that I leave, commanding me to go to the back of the room, get my money back, and leave! You'll find it at Landmark! In my opinion, the Landmark Forum does not place individuals at risk of any form of "mind control" "brainwashing" or "thought control." I’ve since had the kind of searingly honest conversations with my mother that have taken our relationship to a whole other level. Overall, by the time I left, my scepticism very much intact, it felt simultaneously like a narrow escape…and like there must be something really, really wrong with me. You liked Landmark a lot less than I did, which isn’t a problem, but you lose me on this whole hypnosis/brainwashing thing, which just seems like hyperbole. Also, continuing to take more classes with Landmark is pushed hard! Should you not trust what you read around, a french tv managed to get inside the landmark forum and film it with hidden cameras. I attended the Landmark Forum in Bangalore over this weekend (14-18 December 2012). What is The Landmark Forum? Attack therapy and the Landmark Forum. You brainwash people through group dynamics. In fact, you could be subject to brainwashing in your daily life. Abuse of Narrow Focus Meditation for Mind Control. Landmark Forum (or Landmark Education) a personal development program. And watching the opening scenes, in which they described the Church’s central process of “auditing” members in order to process their limiting beliefs, I was taken right back to that basement room in the Landmark HQ. The Landmark Forum is grounded in a model of transformative learning—a way of learning that gives people an awareness of the basic structures in which they know, think, and act. Then the whole city sees your fear, then state, country, world! Not to be overlooked is the main reason " Why Landmark Works." Landmark’s programs are controversial and some have called them “brainwashing.” The company has a long history of bad press and it garnered some more this month “down under.” Australian adolescent psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg warned parents “to be wary” of the workshop and called it an “utter waste of money.” But the constant pressure throughout the course to “enrol” our friends, co-workers, and family members definitely crossed over into coercion territory in my book – echoing the way Scientologists are asked to “disconnect” from any people in their life who don’t adopt the teachings of the church. Landmark Forum is an empty box to be filled with treasures that only your imagination ... Not brainwashing, ... just very effective advertising. The Landmark Forum is grounded in a model of transformative learning—a way of learning that gives people an awareness of the basic structures in which they know, think, and act. All due respect to those who have found high levels of personal growth from it, I don't want to take that away from them. See [www.culteducation.com] Much of what Landmark does in its training seems to parallel coercive persuasion techniques associated with "brainwashing." You can have any result for yourself or your life that you invent as a possibility and enroll others in your having gotten. All around me, people had already been having life-changing epiphanies as they’d worked the course – coming out from behind their “rackets” (“fixed ways of being that result in persistent complaints”) and calling friends and family members they had been “pretending” things were cool with to “cough up the fur-ball” of their most shaming truths (‘Mom, I never come visit because actually it felt like you never really loved me’). Landmark is nothing more than mass marathon training. Enrollment is causing a new possibility to be present for another such that you are touched, moved, and inspired by that possibility. Images: Alex Prager for Garage Magazine. All used by Erhard Seminars Training, which was the original version of the Landmark Forum back … Encouraged to publically share their breakthroughs, there had been tears, and there had been cheers. Here is a list of the top personal development books and their contents: Think and Grow Rich: I've had several co-workers at a couple different jobs endure their bullshit, and it's all the same. This curriculum is delivered by a facilitator, who would alternate between lectures and conversations with the the audience in a Socratic style. Some people call Landmark the brainchild of a used car salesman who sold up his dubious techniques on to a an organisation which now passes them on in a watered down form for upwards of $500 a pop, but let’s not do that. 4. You see - you CAN'T not be experiencing The Landmark Forum. Brainwashing techniques are more common than you think. I no longer blindly accept what my belief system tells me, and look instead to the cold, hard facts of life. Overall, I would recommend the Landmark Forum. Landmark has developed and delivered multiple follow-up and additional programs. And if that means I’m now “enrolling” you – well, there must be some chinks in my sceptical strong suit after all. One lady attending brought to my attention that when you turn in your name tag (plastic sleeve with a pin, turned in after the meal break and at end of the night), they use them to see who is in attendance the next day when they are retrieved by us. It’s also the kind of behaviour that gets organisations labelled “cult”, opposed to simply “community” or “club”. ), and at the end of the night you are given multiple homework assignments (including calling people and telling them about Landmark in one way or another) even though you must be back in your chair in not much more than 9 hours. The Landmark Forum offers a practical methodology for producing breakthroughs—achievements that are extraordinary, outside of what’s predictable. Here is a full description of one of the devious mind control techniques used by Landmark Education. About the sneaky tailor who convinces the Emperor his “invisible” new suit is actually made of the finest cloth. Landmark Worldwide, or simply Landmark, is a company, headquartered in San Francisco, which offers personal-development programs. Breaks are approximately every 2½ to 3 … Me in the Landmark NYC HQ. Well, we all sit with our eyes closed and arms by our sides and visualize that you are afraid to death of the people next to you and that the whole room sees your fear. True, nobody forced me to do the Landmark Forum – I actually decided to sign up because I knew so many amazing, go-getting, and seemingly highly-evolved individuals who’d done it, and I basically wanted a piece. The Landmark Forum is a 3 day personal development seminar. "You've been resenting" "You regret." Then there was the bizarre lingo and double-talk they used to scramble my synapses and “re-program” my thinking. The Landmark Forum for Young People is for 8- to 12-year-olds who participate with the permission of their parents. People may say that these Landmark Forum personnel are experts in brainwashing people. 2. An illusion created by my “always listening” mind (Landmark speak for the ego) to avoid taking full responsibility for my life. I should have spent the evening editing videos for YouTube. I arrive 15 minutes late to a packed house of 170 people. Then you are instructed to visualize that at the end of your scare tunnel is something very funny. Landmark Forum. Think of that car commercial where you get only tantalizing glimpses of the "stunningly redesigned" product. Along with 150 or so other people, from every walk of life, I had been cooped-up in a windowless basement in midtown Manhattan for almost 13 hours a day straight, whilst being told that everything I knew about myself, about my beliefs, and about the world, was an illusion. We are all slaves to our monkey minds; we do self-sabotage with the stories we choose to believe about ourselves; and we do have to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to “look bad”, and to see beyond the illusion of reality, in order to evolve into the highest expression of ourselves. Its subsidiary, the Vanto … When I did the Landmark Forum, I was following in the footsteps of the most badass people I know – and I learned some invaluable life lessons. See [www.culteducation.com] I would not recommend Landmark training to anyone for anything under any circumstances. As for the “big reveal”? In the "Curriculum for Living," you learn distinctions to create and produce the results you want in all areas of your life. Earlier, we’d been asked to identify our “strong suits” – coping mechanisms we’d adopted at key points of trauma in our lives, which had become “ways of acting and being you rely on to produce results and make it in life.” Which, obviously, had to go, along with all the other “stories” you told yourself about…yourself. But brainwashing techniques are used far more commonly than you would think, and in the modern day world. The fact that during Landmark I was also confined to that one windowless room for three consecutive 13-hour days, with minimal breaks for food, and asked not to take notes or go to the toilet (this used to be enforced rigidly, but nobody actually stopped me when I did sneak out for a restroom break), also felt a lot like “systematic” pressure to adopt their teachings. I’d paid my money and I wanted a breakthrough too! The girl next to me wants to leave, but is not allowed. My friend Anahata invited me to the final night of her Landmark Forum. Each day begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at approximately 4:30 p.m. Screenshot to get you, Check out our new blog post: WHAT A RADICAL BUDDHI. And here comes the really interesting part. You are encouraged not to take any over the counter drugs or drink any alcohol while doing The Forum (can you say, Scientology?). I decided I wasn't going to go back on Sunday. MY MISSION: To help create a world where everybody gets to feel whole. One, being that The Leader cured someones headache with Landmark techniques (wow!). Meanwhile you hear the whimpering, sobbing, and panting of people around you. In my opinion, the Landmark Forum is not a cult or anything like a cult, and I do not see how any reasonable, responsible person could say that it is. Originally, ... and is the target of accusations of brainwashing. All this would be fine and dandy if it was groundbreaking information. 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