I saw the video of that show...Dr. Phil showed tons of clips of the "Bum Fights" videos, and then staged a confrontation with the slime-ball from BumFights...but he used the BumFights videos to get ratings, and make controversy.
If he really didn't want to give BumFights publicity, then don't air it!
but what he did gave the BumFights slimeball more publicity, and made him look like a "rebel".

Dr. Phil does a lot of manipulation like this.
He "stages drama" with his producers, and is constantly accused by guests of deceptive editing, which the lawsuit mentioned is about.

I do find Dr. Phil very LGAT-ish, and very manipulative and to be mainly about his own self promotion in many cases.
His Stepford Wife doesn't help either!
:lol:

This stuff never ends...Oprah was advertising a show about "Teen Transformation", so I turned it on.
It about 5 seconds you can see that this is some type of LGAT that some people are doing to vulnerable kids. They just put kids into a room, and make them cry, scream, hug, rage, etc.

Oprah is talking about "Transformation" which of course is the word used by Landmark, and as if this type of Encounter Group produces change, which it doesn't.

So this program for teens is called "Challenge Day" and lo and behold Rick Ross has posted an article about it.
[www.cultnews.com]

Lisa Ling also totally bought into it, without even one critical question.
The LGAT Leader just manipulates the kids to cry about the pain in their life. They also Love Bomb all the kids.

So here we have Oprah and Lisa Ling who refuse to ask even one critical question, or ask for any evidence that this "Challenge Day" does anything at all. Lisa Ling bought it hook, line and sinker...it makes you wonder what her agenda is on this...

The female Leader of this LGAT sounds just like an aggressive Landmark Forum Leader...domineering, arrogant, aggressive, manipulative, robotic...

The public seems to be operating out of complete ignorance about these LGAT groups...they seem to have no idea that things are not always what they appear to be.
Its pathetic.

Here is the link to the Oprah show...so they are taking a Landmark style LGAT into highschools across the US.

[www2.oprah.com]

Check out their bizarre "hand signal" which is coded as a type of Love Bomb.

Maybe folks can put some critical posts into the Oprah webforum.
[boards.oprah.com]

This "Challenge Day" program is sick.
Its still airing, and it is a pure Landmark Forum for teens.
It shows kids standing up and spilling their guts, crying...and then getting Love Bombed.

Read some of the messages at the Oprah board...its truly sick. You have a bunch of shills for Challenge Day pumping it up, a bunch of "Volunteers" for Challenge Day promoting it, and some people who just follow Oprah raving about it because they saw some kids cry on TV.

[boards.oprah.com]

Some larger LGAT organization is behind this "Challenge Day". Someone has financed and promoted it. Who is behind it?

It seems this Oprah show was created and promoted by some of Oprah's producers, who got Oprah involved, and also Lisa Ling.
These same producers are also constantly providing links to the Challenge Day Organization in the Oprah message board.

It seems this was an inside job, and this is why they got the show to air again.
This is a move to create a global LGAT teen seminar system.

From [www.isaccorp.org]

Both Oprah and Dr. Phil disregard the lawsuits and bad press of World Wide Association of Specialty Programs, LGATs, child escort services (which barge into the bedrooms of sleeping children to take them away to behavioral modification schools). The LGAT format really is spreading like a cancer and with these two pandering to the masses, it is so important to get the word out.

[b:f87c6b2ab0]Warm embrace for kids, or merely 'psycho cry fest'?[/b:f87c6b2ab0]
By Keith Ervin

Seattle Times

April 10, 2002

Sitting in small circles, their knees touching, students shared their own hurt and the pain they had inflicted on others.

The tears flowed. In some groups, half the Washington Middle School students were crying at once.

Applause followed, as the seventh- and eighth-graders stepped up to roving microphones and declared what they would do to mend broken relationships with their schoolmates.

Two boys shook hands after one apologized for making fun of the other, and said he hoped to be more supportive.

A girl owned up to snubbing an old friend. "I'm sorry that I've been very distant and that I've chosen other friends in school," she said. "I'm going to work on that, and I'm going to be a better friend."

The girls embraced.

Challenge Day, a workshop aimed at creating a safe school environment free of teasing and harassment, has come to Seattle public schools.

Students and staff members were effusive in their praise for the fast-growing program. Nearly 300 students from Washington and Meany middle schools participated in three daylong sessions last week.

But the emotional intensity of the workshops — and their promotion of encounter-style seminars by a controversial for-profit company — have led critics to suggest the schools have strayed into inappropriate areas.

Challenge Day participants received information packets about a seminar offered in Seattle next month by Resource Realizations, a Scottsdale, Ariz., company best known for its work in residential behavior-modification programs for troubled teens. The company's seminars also were plugged at free parent workshops in the schools.

The Rev. Ron Davis, pastor of Magnolia Presbyterian Church and the father of a Washington eighth-grader who did not attend Challenge Day, said he was concerned about the involvement of Resource Realizations.

"You open the door, you make kids vulnerable, you hand them off to Resource Realizations. I find that unacceptable," Davis said.

Last week's workshops, described by one student as "a psycho cry fest," were the first joint venture involving Resource Realizations, the separate, nonprofit Challenge Day organization, graduates of Resource Realizations seminars, and public schools.

Washington Principal Marilyn Day said she had been unaware of Resource Realizations' partnership with Challenge Day but did not view the workshops as attempts to recruit students to seminars. She said families won't sign up for seminars if they feel they are inappropriate.

Meany Middle School Principal Christi Clark could not be reached for comment.

Superintendent Joseph Olchefske said he had little information about the events and expects middle-schools director Donna Hudson to speak with the principals after spring break.

Olchefske noted that Seattle schools are allowed considerable discretion in deciding what is beneficial for students and are encouraged to form partnerships with outside groups. However, "Clearly, the idea of marketing through kids is something we frown on," he said.

A letter from Resource Realizations founder David Gilcrease to the parents of Challenge Day participants said "the next step for your teen" is the company's three-day, $295 Teen Discovery seminar. Brochures were provided for a May 3-5 seminar at the Ramada Inn on Northgate Way.

"While Challenge Day is a critical first step, a one-day learning experience only goes so far," Gilcrease wrote. "To create truly lasting transformation in their lives, most teens need more."

Critics have accused Resource Realizations' seminars, like the better-known est and Lifespring trainings of the 1970s, of "brainwashing" participants. Gilcrease was a Lifespring facilitator for five years before starting his own company in 1986.

Resource Realizations is a defendant in several lawsuits in which parents claim their children were emotionally abused by seminar facilitators or staff at behavior-therapy facilities where teen seminars are held. The company denies the allegations.

Until now, the seminars have been pitched primarily to teens and parents of teens in the five member programs of the St. George, Utah-based World Wide Association of Specialty Programs.