More scary stuff...Training being held at Esalen for people to learn how to run in-patient LGATs on troubled teens.
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Kevin August of www.antiwwasp.com also owns a referral site at www.teenshelp.us where he is actively referring people to programs such as Sorenson's Ranch in Utah, which we know to be confirmedly abusive. Please do not link to Kevin's sites on your personal websites and do not associate with him. If you care about exposing institutionalized child abuse and protecting children, you w
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From 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. Warm
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QuoteEurope-girl"what is your pay-off?" Quote This one in particular has become quite mainstream. I just read on another forum a woman questioning why she is still so upset over the demise of an abusive relationship. She wants to know what the payoff is to still be wondering, regretting, sad, angry, and not doing well. She must be running some kind of major racket!
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Warning Signs of Potentially Abusive Facilities 1. The facility is not licensed. 2. Verbal and/or written communication between the child and his parents, siblings, grandparents, etc. is prohibited, restricted, or monitored on any level. 3. The facility requires that the parents and/or child sign a form releasing the program of liability in the event of injury to the child. 4.
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There is a lot of info on this forum about Gurdieff, Fourth Way, etc. Use the search option at the top of the page.
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I posted on NYC CL a few days back and it is actually still there!
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(From the Woodbury Reports) THE MARATHON WORKSHOP (and its value as a counseling tool in emotional growth schools) by: Linda Shaffer, Ed. Consultant Sandpoint, Idaho 208-263-8394 All emotional growth schools are not alike! In their counseling tools, nineteen among the more well-known schools use a tool the others do not, the Interactive or Marathon-Like Workshop. In most emotiona
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Yeah, and Dr. Frank is on Dr. Phil's board, even dicier as far as ethics go. And Dr. Phil apparently learned it all from being coached by Dr. Frank, and so can you!
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Interview with Dr. John Hanley - Page 8 INT: Can you just give me a rundown of the history of the development of Lifespring from its inception? JH: I can. Actually we started in San Francisco and then we expanded to Portland, Oregon. Then we went to Orange County, and then from Orange County to L.A., and then we went way across the country to Washington D.C., and then we spun off the
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The gall!. Dr. Phil asks us to believe that he airs video tapes done by guests on guests on his show he and no one from his show previews them.
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Why don't you ask your questions on the forum after reading the extensive information on the Rick Ross website and the personal accounts here?
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By DAISY NGUYEN, Associated Press Writer Thu Dec 14, 10:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES - The parents of an Alabama teen who disappeared last year while on a trip to Aruba with classmates filed a wrongful death suit Thursday against two brothers who were once suspects in the case — a day after the brothers sued the 'Dr. Phil' show. ADVERTISEMENT The lawsuit, filed on behalf of B
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Very funny video. Dr. Phil is all lGAT. While in the aftermath of my sociopathic Landmarkian doctor, and before I found RR, I contacted Dr. Phil and was LGATted again. They weren't interested in anything Landmark related, as a controversy, because that is what he does.
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Sonnie Dee is right. Even my local library put revenues first after being warned about Sahaja Yoga. . In NJ, it appears LEC owns their conference center in a corporate park near Edison. Until 9/11, they rented floors in the World Trade Center so it's not only hotels that are renting ballroom space to them.
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I met the Dalai Lama when he visited NYC several years ago. Can I market that somehow? ;)
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No one said she or her material is cult-related.
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No one said she or her material is cult.
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A quick Yahoo search had lots of hits in English.
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But the same can hardly be said for Stephen Barrett.
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Skeptic, you're right about it being downplayed. They have an answer for everything and basically they imply that they don't want anyone really, really mentally ill substituting them for therapy. My doctor recommended the forum and brushed off the disclaimer as not applying to me. He did not reveal that he was up to his eyeballs in LE and recruiting for them. People attending the
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I read Louise Hay when I first became interested in complementary medicine. I thought she was crazy. One particular book I read was a listing of ailments and Hay's "underlying diagnosis", a term so typical in the mass marketing of alternative nonprofessionals. For instance, people with sore throats, tonsillitis, etc. have difficulty being heard, they don't express themsel
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I have issues with Randi as he lumps all alternative therapies into one basket and throws all of them out stating that there is no scientific evidence to support them. I havn't read him in a while so he might have changed his tune. Despite suffering iatrogenic trauma with the therapies of my alternative physician, I would say that it was this particular quack that was the reason this ha
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A little digging around yielded this gem, written by Lon Woodbury, an education consultant who provides information and advice to parents of troubled teens for finding the rght boot camp, wilderness or residential programs. Many of the complaints people had regarding these schools were identical to those regarding LGATs. This essay is from StrugglingTeens.com, which is a website published by M
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Fornits is sort of the "rickross forum" (not as expertly moderated, however) of the troubled teen industry. There is some pretty horrifying stuff here from kids who have been escorted to boot camps and long-term residential programs. Aspen Education Group, the one Dr. Phil endorses, and to which he sent Kimberlee Ramsey, has two threads in the forum linked here. The State of Utah
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Landmark Education has a very strong presence on the campuses of 4-year naturopathic schools, like Bastyr University. That is the school my doctor graduated from. On a naturopathic medicine forum, many students complain about how aggressive the recruiting is on campus there, and on the other handful of campuses. Judging from the attendance of psychiatrists and other medical professionals at T
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That is horrifying. I'm program director for a mentoring program that recruits and trains people to mentor children referred by child protective services. So far, no LGATers have applied, but I never even thought about this happening. Thanks for the heads up.
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Check your PM ajinajan.
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I wrote as well and got nothing but positive feedback.
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I took free meditation classes with someone involved with Science of Identity. Then it became a little too religious, with a lot of "shoulds" aimed at me. I stopped. Over the past couple of years, Sahaja yoga has made a presence in the public library. I went to the first class and exited when I saw the picture of the Mother on an altar with candles. There was no need for a yog
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