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I really love my job, however my boss is a Forum Graduate and is pushing for the entire management team to attend. I just completely disagree that it belongs in the workplace and I've said I did not want to go.
He said it's "professional development" and Nike and Microsoft have brought LE in to do programs with their teams.
Now I'm dubbed 'not a team player' if I don't attend. I've done a LOT of research on LE and just do NOT agree with their philosophy or business tactics. HELP!
Anyone else been pressured at work to attend? :?:
This is VERY serious. Read the chapter by Margaret Singer "Intruding into the Workplace" available here:
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I recommend you distribute it at your work to all your collegues. Find support and fight back. If you are unionized, take it to the union. If not, get a lawyer. You can claim Landmark's system of beliefs goes against your own religious beliefs. For example, Landmark will try to endoctrinate you that you are solely responsible for creating your own reality, that you are responsible for everything (good or bad) that happens in your life. This is a New Age belief and sometime it is reffered to as "blaming the victim". This is also what the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was supporting in his work and this is why his writing is so popular among New Agers. The Vatican has put JP Sartre's work "a l'index". i.e. declared it is against the church.
The belief that you are solely responsible for creating your reality is against the Bible. In the book of Job, God speaks to Job and tell him that he was not responsible for creating his own misery. Then God gives him back what he had lost. This is just an example, but you can easily document that Landmark is based on a New Age system of beliefs, and that this is against your religion. Your employer cannot threaten you and force you to change your system of beliefs and religion.
I'll stop here for this morning, but again, this is a very serious matter and I encourage everybody to come up with supportive ideas to help you. This is a golden opprtunity that you have to take Landmark to court (see MT Singer book).
MD