Hi Bluedevil, and welcome to the forum.
I haven't been to one of the courses, but I expect that it will have the same characteristics as other Large Group Awareness Training organisations. The exception being that it's wrapped up in a New Age presentation, which is in itself a disconnect from reality. Essentially, a LGAT which targets the new age market segment.
As these events are ultimately an exercise in large group brainwashing, it is possible that you yourself are still compromised as you have attended a course.
Whilst it is possible for the media to be biased with editors pre-determining the angle and direction of reporting, you have to remember that all these reports are coming as a result of the
Coronial Inquest in to the death of a woman. Standards of admisibility for evidence and testimony will apply. This is not the "misinformation" that you are hoping colour the reportage with.
Likewise, she lept from the window at the Royal Australasian College of Phyisicians in front of her colleagues. The witnesses to her character, behavioural changes and demise are as credible as it gets.
If you feel that the courses are taught by qualified instructors, then you have been lied to and deceived. To
quote from a report,
"The State Coroner's Court in Glebe was told that none of the teachers or support team at Turning Point had formal qualifications in psychotherapy or counselling to conduct the courses, during which people often became distraught."And that's about as stark as it gets.
It doesn't matter how many people have done a course, it won't make a course any better or worse. To use a medical analogy, thousands of people have undergone
chemotherapy to batter cancer into submission. The stronger and younger will tolerate chemo well whilst the weaker may not even survive it. It doesn't change the fact that chemotherapy involves injecting a cocktail of toxic drugs and (should the patient survive) there are negative consequences for their general health for the rest of their lives.
It could be that you have been wildly deceived when the course was sold to you ... or you have arrived as an apologist doing "damage control" for the organisation.
John