>>but in reality, he "stole" the whole training from another training group called Landmark<<
Not Landmark -- Life Spring, a "training" company started by John Hanley, Bob White and others in the 1970s.
See: [
en.wikipedia.org]
and
[
www.lifespring-history.com]
However, I know Sally Berger and Mike Cordell (who ran Harmony before the Jubacks, and claimed he gave Hans about $500,000 before filing a lawsuit to get it back) . . . did the LandMark Forum in Salt Lake City sometime in 2001 (I could dig up the exact dates if needed). Sally showed up the day the Forum started and bull$hitted her way into the room (normally they require an application a week or more before the Forum). Friends saw her taking detailed notes on every break (no note taking is allowed in the room) and at least some of that became the Impact trainer in training program. Sally later told a friend of mine that she purposefully did not go back to the last evening session of the Forum so that they could not list her as a "graduate." Cordell told me he went to see "how the people who are really making money at this are doing it." So some of TIT/LMT comes from Landmark. Other parts come from other trainings that Sally has done under cover ("research"), or that others people like the Christensens or Smarts did for them, or from books from The Golden Braid, etc. I don't think LifeSpring ever did anything like Hans and Sally are now doing in LMT. And apparently some of LMT (crystals, decrees, dancing, circles, insense, etc) is more like the Satanist or dark magic cults that are around. I have heard Hans say Jesus and Lucifer are partners and love each other. That Lucifer volunteered to appear evil, but is as bright as christ himself, etc, etc. That's all a Hans and Sally cult, and was not, as far as I know, ever part of LifeSpring, or any of its other spinoffs around the USA.
(There's lots more information on Landmark in other threads on this board. But as far as I know they do not do trust walks, feedback arcs, the red-black game, stretches, alternative names, a ropes course -- or any of the other processes that Hans and Sally STOLE from Life Spring (and Life Spring probably STOLE from somewhere else) . . .
In 2001 Oprah ran a series of 10 episodes with Dr. Phil, called the "Get Real" challenge -- Forty-two people locked in a hotel ballroom for five days with Dr. Phil. I watched that with a group of former Impact friends and we'd laugh and laugh imagining how Hans must feel seeing all his "revelations from Heavenly Father" exposed on TV by Dr. Phil and Oprah!!!!
Most of "Impact's" processes were shown on Oprah over those 10 weeks -- Feedback arcs (aka "the living mirror"), stretches, trust walk, etc, etc. Anyone watching that 10 hours worth of Oprah would know Hans didn't create anything.
Harmony (now Great Life) even changed the names of their trainings to "Get Real, Be Real, Live Real" ror awhile to match Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil got it from Pathways, a Life Spring company in Dallas.
[
www.gopathways.com]
or
[
www.createagreatlife.org]
or
[
www.marriagebootcamp.com]
If you can get and watch those 10 hours of "Dr. Phil's Get Real Challenge" on Oprah, you'll see most of what goes on at Impact's first three levels (Quest and Summit, and part of Lift Off.)
Life Spring, after more or less going out of business following an investagative report in October 1980 on ABC's 20/20 by Geraldo
The following list of resources is copied from:
[
www.panix.com]
A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTICLES AND BOOKS CONCERNING LIFESPRING |
| *** COMPILED MAY 1994 *** |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
1) Conway, Flo and Siegelman, Joe, _Snapping:__America's_Epidemic_of_
_Sudden_Personality_Change_ (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Com-
pany, 1978), p. 219.
2) Rivera, Geraldo, "Lifespring," _ABC's_20/20_(transcript)_,
30 October 1980, (New York: Media Transcripts, Inc.)
3) Rivera, Geraldo, "Lifespring," _ABC's_20/20_(transcript)_,
6 November 1980, (New York: Media Transcripts, Inc.)
4) Halverson, Dean C., "Lifespring and the Sovereignty of Subjec-
tivism," a pamphlet from Spiritual Counterfeits Project, 1981.
5) Haaken, Janice and Adams, Richard, "Pathology as `Personal Growth':
A Participant-Observation Study of Lifespring Training," _Psychia-
try_, Vol. 46, (1983) pp. 270-280.
6) Asakawa, Gil, "Stress for Success," _Westword_, Denver, Colorado,
11-17 December 1985, pp. 8, 10, 12, 14-15.
7) Lieberman, Morton A., "Effects of Large Group Awareness Training on
Participants' Psychiatric Status, _American_Journal_of_Psychiatry_,
Vol. 144, No. 4, April 1987, pp. 460-464.
8) Fisher, Marc, "Inside Lifespring," _The_Washington_Post_Magazine_,
25 October 1987, pp. 18-35.
9) Vahle, Neal, "Lifespring and the Development of Human Potential,"
_New_Realities_, July/August 1987, pp. 17-22, 51.
10) Solomon, Anita O., "Psychotherapy of a Casualty from a Mass Therapy
Encounter Group: A Case Study," _Cultic_Studies_Journal_, Vol. 5,
No. 2, 1988, pp. 211-227.
11) Hanley, John, _Lifespring:__Getting_Yourself_From_Where_You_Are_to_
_Where_You_Want_to_Be_ (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989)
12) Keegan, Paul, "Into the Void," _Boston_Business_, February/March
1990, pp. 24-29, 68-77.
13) Mathison, Dirk, "White-Collar Cults: They Want Your Mind...,"
_Self_, February 1993, pp. 120-156.
14) "Readers Write/Fax," _Self_, April 1993, p. 20.
15) McAndrews, Anne, "I Lost My Husband to a Cult," _Redbook_, May
1994, pp. 60-72.
Life Spring is now also selling videos on Amazon, See:
[
www.amazon.com]
Hope this Helps,
:)
If not, I tried . . . I tried really hard . . .
:)
--Ed
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