I had a long discussion with my relative tonight. He very much wants me to do the basic and advanced MITT training. Without doing research, I had agreed and put my trust in him that he was recommending something good. I had a 2nd conversation with a MITT employee who shot so many red flags over my bow, that I put the brakes on quick. I am at the point in my discussions with my relative
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My original post asked whether any of these organizations have a privacy policy, not just MITT.
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Dear questionguy: Lots of past discussion here about MITT. Check and see who recently discussed MITT and find out if they have a privacy policy.
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I have a cousin who came to me months ago about this wonderful executive training called MITT and I just have to do it. It was so beneficial for him that he paid my deposit without asking me and he is going to pay for my basic and Advanced courses! I live on the East Coast. I had a pleasant conversation with the MITT intake guy over a month ago, but the conversation two weeks ago pissed me o
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(Quote) IRS not enforcing rules on churches and politics Politics Nov 3, 2012 By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- For the past three years, the Internal Revenue Service hasn't been investigating complaints of partisan political activity by churches, leaving religious groups who make direct or thinly veiled endorsements of political candidates unchallenged. T
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Doing great Corboy! Thanks. Glad I'm out of that fatal circus 11 years ago. LGAT. MITT. There's some better four letter words to describe them.
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This is the biggest douchebag organization that personally cost me thousands and destroyed someone close to me 10 years ago. MITT in Los Angeles is run by a fat, gutteral sounding Dutch woman named Margo. Who by the way has zero training in psychology and is a former hairedresser from the Netherlands. She is agressive. She is rude and she is ruthless. Pure and simple - she wants your cash
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Someone posted a query about MITT on another part of the message board (destructive churches) Here is a link to that person's post. That way, anyone interested in MITT can access this and the more recent query.
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(quote)Monday, January 12, 2009 M.I.T.T. and the Downfall of My Fellow Man Wondering if anyone out there has heard of a frisky little organization called M.I.T.T. (Mastery in Transformational Training), a group-awareness program out of California. A long-time, good friend of mine is deep into the training, a program whose beginner course starts at around $500, with proceeding courses ch
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This may also be known as MITT Lifespring - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Melton and Lewis point out that both Werner Erhard and John Hanley had previously worked at Mind .... Margo Majdi purchased rights to Lifespring materials in 1998, forming a new company called Mastery In Transformational Training (MITT).en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/107885 - 42k - Cached - Similar pages If so,
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Lots of rave reviews on yelp. But Cult Education Institute is here to assist people in learning about side effects. If your MD prescribes medication, that bottle of pills comes with a package insert listing benefits, side effects, and you can learn what are the signs to stop taking that medication. You can also get a consulation with the pharmacist. Here at the Cult Education I
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I have a friend who is deeply involved in this group and is encouraging me to take its classess. However, he is rather secretive about his experiences, justifying his response with "if I tell you to much, it will spoil your experience." From what I have learned from the MITT site, some reviews and some other sources, it appears to have many hallmarks of a non-violent cult. I would lik
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We've asked SIR to remove the reference you quote. It simply is not true. Some members of MDI are weekend graduates, some have done Landmark, others are former or current Masons, Elks, Lions or miltary veterans. Many members use MDI to support 12 step recovery programs. To paint one organization with a broad brush simply because some of its members found value in another organizations p
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"Always vote black when playing the Red Black game" QuoteRed-black game (was Re: The Prisoners' Dilemma) < Prev Next > Posted By: madfedor madfedor Send Email Mon Aug 2, 2004 8:21 pm | Options View Source Use Fixed Width Font Unwrap Lines A variation of this was used by a self-actualization course (an offshoot of EST) called Lifespring. I
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Common 'games' shared by Lifespring and other LGATs, such as the Red Black game A detailed description of the Red Black game as used in a different group, and how people were kept awake past midnight.
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Hey Minor Nuisance, You sound like a shill for MITT to me. Why would you register into a cult awareness web site which clearly MITT is a cult by definition and start this contentious dialogue? You obviously select which points to discount or dissect because essentially you are logged on to protect this cult group. My own story was not a sordid "one off". There was countless st
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The dialogue started here by NMC can be found and read by anyone who is alert and runs a Google search on MTT/Lifespring.
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NoMinorChords: "All I am saying is that was not what happened to me nor anyone else I observed "? I have posted some news accounts, a court record and another study done by mental health professionals, which all point up the same pattern of problems, which are inherently present in the training. It seems that the only thing you are concerned with though is "subjective exp
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Another published account regarding a Lifespring participant's experience. The participant is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Excerpted material about Lifespring. See The Nominee's Soul Mate Washington Post/eptember 10, 1991 By Laura Blumenfeld Who's afraid of Virginia Thomas? She's a soft-spoken, hard-working daughter of the heartland. A
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Another published account regarding a Lifespring participant's experience. The participant is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The Nominee's Soul Mate Excerpted material Washington Post/eptember 10, 1991 By Laura Blumenfeld Who's afraid of Virginia Thomas? She's a soft-spoken, hard-working daughter of the heartland. A brainy Omaha lawyer who ha
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Another Lifespring participant experience. See "Do what it takes" By a former member of Lifespring's "Leadership Team" I was involved in Lifespring from 1981-1984. I went through all its trainings, including the Leadership program; plus I assisted in several trainings. The Lifespring office was located in San Rafael. I resided in Palo Alto at that time. W
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Court record regarding Lifespring. See In the Matter of the Complaint of Lifespring, Inc. against KARE-TV, Channel 11 June 15, 1990 Charles Ingrasci, Director of Corporate Affairs for Lifespring, and Janna Krammer, director of its Twin Cities program, appeared for the complainant. Janet Mason, News Director, accompanied by Bernie Grace, reporter, and Thomas Tinkham, attorney, appeare
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A marriage destroyed. See I Lost My Husband to a Cult We joined a "Personal-growth group to bring us closer. But what we learned would shatter our marriage forever." Redbook Magazine/May 1994 By Anne McAndrews *All names changed to protect privacy More than a year after the tragedy, Waco is still on my mind, for I, too, once gave my life over to a cult. But my s
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NoMinorChords: Another study by mental health professionals published about Lifespring. See Pathology as "Personal Growth": A Participant-Observation Study of Lifespring Training Psychiatry, Vol 46, August 1983 By Janice Haaken, Ph.D. and Richard Adams, Ph.D. This paper presents an overview of a Lifespring Basic Training workshop from a psychoanalytic perspective
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NoMinorChords: A woman died and a wrongful death was filed against Lifespring. See Lawyers Complain of Missing Records in Lifespring Death Suit Seattle Times/ June 21, 1980 By Larry Brown Complaints about missing records were aired yesterday during a pretrial hearing in a law suit filed by a man who blames a self-awareness program for the death of his daughter. Gail Renick
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rrmoderator-- I'm not quite sure how to do the formatting here with quotes so please bear with me if it ends up looking odd. I am also near the end of my time off, so may take longer to reply to your posts after this. You wrote: "You seem intent upon blaming the victim or individuals rather than admitting that there is something inherently wrong with the training. Why not place
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NoMinorChords: You seem intent upon blaming the victim or individuals rather than admitting that there is something inherently wrong with the training. Why not place responsibility for failed results and problems on Lifespring? As psychologist Philip Cushman observed, "Leaders were true believers and sealed their doctrine off from discomforting data or disquieting results and tended to
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Ha. One can get lots of citations about Lifespring if one puts Lifespring graduate and pushy into the Google slot.
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Ha. One can get lots of citations about Lifespring if one puts Lifespring graduate and pushy into the Google slot.
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RighttoFight: I think you might have misread my motives. I have no intention of making any kind of blanket defense of Lifespring or LGATs in general. Before I took the MITT course, I googled it and found only either sensational accusations like "orgies in the parking lot" or vacuous affirmations about transformation. Clearly, it is polarizing - at least among people who bother to pos
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