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Cujo
Does anybody know anything about Accelerate Trainings (formerly Synergy) based out of Calif and working in Calif and Las Vegas?

[www.acceleratetrainings.com]

My wife has started attended the trainings and it is [u:4929d457ba]exactly[/u:4929d457ba] like the LifeSpring training articles in Rick Ross's web site...day by day, right down to the tape on the floor.

Concerned? :shock:

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John Hanley Sr.
Dr. John Hanley is senior member who has been hired to personally mentor Philips. With him, he brings his background as a pioneer in the field of non-traditional education." [b:93bd1ab428]As the founder and former CEO of Lifespring, Inc., [/b:93bd1ab428]the preeminent personal-effectiveness training in the 70s through 90s, he is the driving force behind authoring the content of the courses, training and the trainers.

[b:93bd1ab428]He is the author of "Lifespring: Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be." [/b:93bd1ab428]He co-founded the Institute for Leadership and Potential Development (I-Leap), an affiliate of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. John Hanley earned his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia Pacific University.

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Pathology as "Personal Growth":
A Participant-Observation Study of Lifespring Training
Psychiatry, Vol 46, August 1983
By Janice Haaken, Ph.D. and Richard Adams, Ph.D.


Definition: sol•ip•sism Audio pronunciation of solipsistic n. Philosophy

1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.


This paper presents an overview of a Lifespring Basic Training workshop from a psychoanalytic perspective. Basing our conclusions on a participant-observation study, we argue that the impact of the training was essentially pathological. First, in the early period of the training, ego functions were systematically undermined and regression was promoted. Second, the ideational or interpretive framework of the training was based upon regressive modes of reasoning. Third, the structure and content of the training tended to stimulate early narcissistic conflicts, and defenses, which accounted for the elation and sense of heightened well-being achieved by many participants.