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An extraordinary adventure!!! The Landmark Forum is a $375 “roller coaster ride” that provides an unprecedented and unpredictable adventure. The Landmark Forum promises to deliver “anything you want for yourself or your life”. But “what you want” is often unknown (or different than what you think you want).
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isnt this a shame..

Wow. It serves to remind how easy it could be to get sucked up into one of these things.

About a year ago I was going through a real low-point, career-wise (I ended up resigning from my job, it got that bad). I was terribly depressed and under a huge amount of stress and went to see a careers cousellor to see what I could do to make it better. Luckily the man in question could see that I wasn't in a fit state to take up his course, and he didn't pressure me at all -- but I could so easily have gone to some sort of Landmark thing instead, had I stumbled along the wrong thing on the net. There ought to be a warning..

...also shows that Landmark doesn't improve your grammar either ;)

Evite seems to be used by Landmarkians. I received an invite some months ago from one.

I know of someone who has found Landmark leaflets around too outside of the USA. It seems that they are now resorting to both paper and electronic leaflets and mailouts. - This seems to be a new trend.

Oz

Probably against "official" Landmark policy. I think they've always discouraged this type of thing for the reason that it robs new converts of the opportunity of practicing their selling skills and Landmark is all about selling skills. Also, it's impersonal. Landmark needs the personal touch, preferably from a friend or trusted confidant, to get the hooks in early to better insure compliance. I have worked in some projects that required the compliance of subjects and there was always some personalble, good-looking young woman assigned to that job. People were much more likely to folllow orders and follow through with the experiment when there was a personal connection. Without that, most of them wouldn't even bother showing up.


Ellen

they now have some of those little ads that pop up when you do a search on Google, for instance.

With regard to the first Evite from Montreal's first posting, you can go into evite, click the red flag, "report abuse" and select "innapropriate". This goes to Evite Customer Service who may remove the add from the site.

It is innapropriate as it is suggesting help with "career transition" but it really designed to sell Landmark COurses to unsuspecting people.


The link below is on a somewhat related thread about Landmark online dating for recruitment purposes. The thread author, "Nycupperes" conducted statistical analysis on grammar and word usage showing a reduced vocabulary among Landmarkians. it is a long thread but really worth reading.

[b:6cb6ac4e8d]Landmark Online Recruitment:[/b:6cb6ac4e8d]http://board.culteducation.com/viewtopic.php?t=763



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With regard to the first Evite from Montreal's first posting, you can go into evite, click the red flag, "report abuse" and select "innapropriate". This goes to Evite Customer Service who may remove the add from the site.[/b:f4041a8be7]

I guess Customer Service doesn't see it as innapropriate, yet!!!!

I've added two more to the list, and will keep adding to the same list when I do find more.

Jan 2005 Update.

I've been reading some of the public Landmark newsgroups, and it seems another method of recruitment is for female attendees to go to battered women's shelters and offer a "miracle makeover." Just what battered women need...someone sucking them into a "cultlike group."