In my opinion I highly recommend this course.

You wonder, “How can people change like that? After only three days?”
They do.

And, you can NOT call me close-minded just because I’ve made a decision on something.
I have almost always been a rather indecisive person, and I usually think that everybody’s got a point.
I have a good track record. I have never had extraordinarily strong or firm beliefs about anything.
Not like I have about the Landmark Forum.

And this is because I have experienced first-hand negative interactions with the organization.
The results of their little weekend seminars absolutely frighten me.

The way it turns people…

Wonderful people turn quite ugly and unpleasant.

I’m NOT going to use the word cult because it has very strong connotations.
So I’m going to say it’s a scam, or a racket (which I am using in the popular sense of the word, not the sullied version they use at Landmark Forum).

They are a very clever self-help business that gets you thinking you need their services, through very convincing language. By the end, even very intelligent people can end up giving more and more time and money into this program.
So how does this Pyramid Scheme operate?
Their marketing is not the normal sales pitch. It is a clever social technique where they isolate you from any outside influence for several days, breaking down the most analytical rational people into robotic mindless followers. Ironically, they believe that they are becoming “freed.” They are then encouraged to bring more friends and family into the program on the last day to sign up for the seminars.

My boyfriend went in saying I’m going to “find a client” for real estate. He was going “to make more business potential.” Was this fulfilled? Not at all.

Instead, he came back not having found a single client, but saying he had learned better, more fulfilling things. None of which he could elaborate upon specifically. Except that he realized problems with himself that he hadn’t confronted before. He had learned “integrity” and continued vaguely repeating that Landmark Forum provided him very important information. Also that “I couldn’t understand it.”

After conveying his own faults, he went on to speak of my “racket.” All of our dialogue had become needlessly very intense. After which, he began proselytizing. Landmark Forum is “a great place, full of good people. They taught me integrity.” Sounding as if he was talking out of a Landmark pamphlet.

What had happened to him? He wasn’t talking like himself. How had they turned him so moronic?
Did they cut open your brain and put a tape recorder in its place?

One goal of the program is to help you improve your relationships but instead it ended up detrimentally affecting mine.
Don’t let anybody you love go to Landmark Forum unless you are ready to get a weirdo returned to you.

it is a great business. good for them to get so many to sign up. Business is business.

true that if you know someone vulnerable, you may want to go with them and talk to them all the time. people can view this a manipulative. Like a counselor or a psychiatrist, they manipulate your way of thinking. At no time did the forum tell me to recruit people but it did tell me that I could pass this on. I am a firm believer that one treats others as they want to be treated. so I gladly brought people I felt has strong minds there to introduce them to the concepts.

I think therefore I am – revolutionary, no? sort of the same her. Look at you and get it of why you are behaving this way. Landmark gives you a way to deal with you and get over yourself. I read a lot on the internet about the abuse of landmark. Yes, I saw videos, particularly one of a guy in France, who were very disturbing. I went through the forum with a great facilitator. this guy in france needed to be hung, honestly. He was extremely abusive.

I am doctor. there are good and bad doctors out there. I sure hope the few bad ones do not tarnish all the doctors. Ultimately, one has to be responsible and take what one wants out of our experiences.

For me the forum has opened doors with my father, my brother, my anger towards the past. I am decided on what I want and the days are no longer a traffic jam of things to do but a series of amazing experiences. Some days I will fall back in the old ways. So I got the book so I could keep up.

Life is better in peace, with forgiveness and love. So , yes I adopt the language of the forum because it is strong. I also speak French, English and Spanish. nothing culty about that! LOL

I am creating the possibility of a life full of…. you know the rest.

thanks for the posts

What I got out of Landmark: a clearer view of when I am and when I’m not being “authentic” with people in my life. I have a system in place for myself to maintain “integrity” with my word. When I say I’m going to do something now, I really do it, and because of that I’m doing more of what I want to do with my life, rather than what others want me to, or what I think others expect from me.

I got a lot more out of it than that, and maybe I just had a great forum leader, and I was ready for this kind of experience. For people who are willing and ready to open their mind, question everything, re-organize their life method, and live outside the box, I think Landmark is the most effective method I’ve encountered (and I’ve tried a lot of other things). However, if you’re not this kind of person, if you’re stuck in your beliefs, and are stubborn about your ways, you may find Landmark offensive to you. But, it all depends on who you really are, and who you might find out you really are. A shock to the system is necessary to make huge changes in a person, so that’s what Landmark opens up, and has for me. I’m living quite effectively every day right now. That’s my experience with it.

I do agree that the hard sell is kind of a turn off because I just hate getting “sold” things and I don’t like to try and convince others to do things, however, I honestly do believe many people I know could and would benefit greatly from the program, so I will tell people exactly my experience and let them decide from there.