Anyone got experience of large group awareness training programs? eg landmark forum

[TheBlonde]

They seem a bit cultish... I've been googling

A friend is going to this Unleash the power event at the weekend
I'm a bit concerned but not sure what to do

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If they don't come back, ring the police?

What do you mean?

What are your options for doing anything?

I would imagine that they will make their choice and be somewhat over-excited for a week and then back to normal.

If you really believed in this stuff, you'd be buying a ticket too, right?

It is more the kind of thing where they have you sign up for more expensive courses while you are there (with a v short cancellation option)

Anthony Robbins is pretty harmless other than to your bank balance, I think , so I wouldn't worry (the Forum people can be a bit cultish, admitedly).

LOL.

This is how hot coal walking works:

It takes place at dusk / dark so that the barely glowing coals look more red than they would in daylight. Most is ash - it is dying embers.

All the walkers sit around for ages doing chanting or whatever with no socks on and their feet in v cold wet grass.

The skin on your feet is v thick, and after it is sodden and cold, you walk a short distance over the embers, and the speed of each footfall is not enough to burn the wet cold feet.

They do it all the time as a religious festival in the country DP comes from.

I've known a couple of people who were really into the landmark stuff and were always trying to rope me in.
They had some sound ideas but it did seem cultish and they did seem somewhat blinkered.
I don't think either of them have kept it up.
It costs a lot both in time and money

People I know who have done Landmark have:
-Caused havoc by telling everyone and everybody about past betrayals from years ago and smashed up a chain of marriages.
-sent their children on intensive 3 or 4 day children's courses where they are subjected to exhausting sessions and come home to tired too eat, but on the instructions of the course leaders are co-erced into going back the next day even though they cry at the prospect.
-Badgered their friends incessantly to join - at great expense
-become distant with non-Landmark friends as they like to socialise by discussing their new found state of mind and don't seem to enjoy the company of non-Landmark mortals.

PortAndLemon - alas this person does not have money to waste (as far as I am aware)

I think it's worrying me as years ago a friend got caught up with Tvind/ Humana and we didn't do enough to stop her

Robbins is pretty mainstream, though -- just your standard overpriced motivational speaker. I think this is very much the benign end of the spectrum. If it were the Landmark Forum I'd be more concerned.

Thanks, hopefully my friend won't get too into it!

blu, my friend did that. She phoned me up once saying that she had gone home after a meeting and told her boyfriend about all the men she'd been sleeping with .
The are still together, married infact,