NLP seems to be going the same way many of these "social industries" are.... more and more strangely written, dense contracts you must sign just to attend.... one I recently saw had a [b:f821e57214] non-disclosure clause [/b:f821e57214] buried within it.... oh , and yeah an [b:f821e57214] indemnification clause [/b:f821e57214] meaning YOU get to pay all of their legal costs if THEY sue YOU.... and the unbelievable thing is that [b:f821e57214] not one person in the entire group actually read a three page contract they were signing..... they we told, or chose to believe, thet this was a "mere formality to be gotten out of the way" so they could hurry to their seats....[/b:f821e57214] Do these innocent New Age Idiots have any idea what they are agreeing to ? NLP has often claimed for itself to be "cutting edge technology"... what it now appears to be is on the cutting edge of excessive contractual language.... What is going on here ? Who is driving the bus, as Richard Bandler was once fond of asking... yeah... we'd love to know... [i:f821e57214] who, or what IS driving this bus? [/i:f821e57214] What is motivating this trend to contractualizing everything ? Why are these documents either so poorly written, or so freaking oppressive, or just so over the top ? Is this a general trend in all of LGAT land, where you sign away every right you might have and put yourself in a very precarious legal position in case you DO have grounds to litigate ?
What is even more horrifying is [b:f821e57214] how egregiously this demonstates the lack of critical thinking [/b:f821e57214], worse I think, a [i:f821e57214] fundamentally conformist, (or was that a conformingly fundamentalist ) lack of real curiosity [/i:f821e57214] , the lack of the willingness to stop and analyse, the refusal to confront what is questionable, the unthinking acceptance of whatever is placed under one's nose..... and yet these trainings are supposed to produce "winners" and "empowered people" or whatever .... and on a behavioral level they function no better than [b:f821e57214] docile cows being led by the nose ? [/b:f821e57214] Cripes........ :roll:
Oh, by the by... anyone who wants to visit [b:f821e57214] off limits territory with regard to the NLP myth [/b:f821e57214] ought to read this quite illuminating article about the founding of NLP and the company it has kept in bygone days...
Funny thing... or not so funny thing... the current crop of NLPsters seem to have developed an agressive case of collective amnesia for this phase in the history of NLP... like they are trying to [b:f821e57214] hypnotically evaporate it into nothingness [/b:f821e57214] or some such mental pretzling.... freak ass trance behavior... like they hear you... then drop into a "negative hallucination" trance and erase it real lickety split fast... then return to the conversation like nothing was said....
read away, matey, and reach yer own conclusions:
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