Jack:
You seem to have come here as an apologist attempting to defend controversial LGATs, e.g. Hoffman.
Your posts are very telling.
You describe Hoffman as "therapy" to resolve "personal problems," yet will not or cannot identify its staff educational requirements, qualifications per licensing and/or meaningful accountability that its group leaders have to an outside regulatory board or body.
Your claims that Hoffman leaders somehow understand "transference" and have supposed "diagnostic" skills is subsequently without any meaningful foundation.
Hoffman apparently has no rquirements that licensed mental health or counseling professionals lead and/or officially supervise its programs. And it seems that Hoffman also has no meaningful accountability to an outside board or body for its practices such as psychologists, psychiatrists, marriage and family therapists, etc.
Therapy to resolve personal problems is typically addressed by such licensed counseling professionals that are accountable to boards.
Your defense of Hoffman is based entirely upon your subjective experience and assorted anecdotal stories.
That is, your response to previously posted points concerning LGAT liabilties that it is somehow simply "not their game at all," is purely your subjective opinion without any supporting factual objective evidence cited.
Specifically, you offer no study and/or academic peer-reviewed and published paper based upon objective scientifically measured evidence.
But the verbiage you use to explain the Hoffman "group" "process" is very telling.
You admit that the Hoffman program is "pretty intense" and that it is a week-long "rigid schedule filled with activities and exercises" where the group participants are led to "take time out of [their lives] to examine [their life] and talk about how it was formed." And that it essentially teaches a particular philosophy, which includes a call to "forgive our parents, while understanding how we've adopted or rejected their negative traits, then we can see our adult selves in a clear light and live happier more balanced lives."
You also describe how this was "crammed down our throat" i.e. "an awareness of how a person's positive and negative personal traits can be built on a lifetime of copying or rejecting our parents' positive and negative personal traits."
You also admitted that there is a Hoffman "lingo," which is often a feature of thought reform programs called "loaded language."
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www.culteducation.com]
Per the admissions in your posts you have offered the typical characteristics of an LGAT.
And your defense of Hoffman has also followed the typical pattern of an LGAT apologist, which can be viewed at other threads on this message board about Landmark Education, Mankind Project, Sterling Institute of Relationship, etc.
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forum.culteducation.com]
Thanks for sharing inside information about Hoffman and demonstrating these points publicly here as a supporter of its programs.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/2009 11:46PM by rrmoderator.