sol37:
Education, advertising, propaganda and indoctrination are different forms of persuasion than coercive persuasion or thought reofrm, which is what MKP and other mass marathon training has been compared to.
See [
www.culteducation.com]
Note the gradations of persuasion on the chart established by psychologist Margaret Singer.
The MKP notes, which have been exposed through this message board, put MKP and its leaders repeatedly in the category of thought reform, in my opinion.
Your subjective experience is not the objective proof of what MKP does, but rather the leader's notes, which the organization has not refuted.
You say that within MKP programs "people [are] challenged to work on issues" in their personal lives. And you admit that you personally witnessed someone doing so "by emotionally revisiting a traumatic event in his life" during an MKP program.
These are very telling admissions, which further demonstrate what MKP is really promoting and providing is a type of group therapy, but without the necessary certification and educational requirements for its leaders. And without the accompanying accountability provided as expected from psychologists, psychiatrists and other licensed professional counselors and therapists.
This is why mass marathon training like MKP is frequently the cause of serious problems as the research points out and is therefore potentially unsafe.