I have a cousin who just went through Gratitude trainings in Charlotte North Carolina with its “peace and love” guru Jo Englesson. I don’t know how far into it she is but she wants to meet with my wife and I to discuss something very important. I just know she is going to try to get us involved. I have also done some research and do not like what I’m finding out about Gratitude Trainings. If yo
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The research and anecdotal evidence seem to indicate that LGATs are very successful at producing positive opinions about the trainings—an outcome that the financial officers of every service business would value. —Michael D. Langone, PhD, editor of Cultic Studies Journal It's clever because the first program (the Basic) starts out slowly, and accommodates people's natural skepticism
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They pretend like the relationships with your loved ones will get better. Well they get better is you al agree with each other. Or maybe if you are gay and all agree with eachother. I was promised that this was going to help my wife - It just took her further and further away from me and my daughters and into the manipulative arms of the Gratitude training groupies. These people DO NOT make yo
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"I just found this one from a student... .... I did the entire core classes in Florida Gratitude Trainings. I was going to help out in Charlotte when Jo and the Liliana women started the next leg of ther empire. Then I started to have the fog lift. I realized that their hard sell, energy and crazy enthusiasm to push friends very uncomfortable. I was lonely and I was an easy pick for the
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So Jo Englesson and Liliana Barr seemed to have conned people into coming to Charlotte and getting their friends to go to this training. People didnt have to pay anything. They they used their best tactics. "Fun, high energy" A contrasting mix of snazzy trainer personality strengths and acting abilities, lack of integrity and cunning, people have enough "ah has" to them co
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Gratitude trainings in Charlotte NC and Miami is dangerous. They get you to come for free then keep getting you to up your money with enthusiasm. Definitely for the weak minded. Scary
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I have been doing more research about Gratitude Trainings in Florida and Gratitude Charlotte and Jo Englesson and the new leader Liliana Barr, Very scary. They are spawned from Lifespring which then was turned into Summit Education. Then this Jo Englesson, self declared author. No integrity but lots of charisma. Perfect cult leader stuff. This is a truly slimey offspring of Lifespring.
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The Gratitude Trainings in Florida and Charlotte North Carolina are a scam and a possible cult. The owner who is building her empire, is not a citizen of the United States. Jo Englesson is fake and most people seem to buy her ditsy artist actress stuff. She is nice to whoever she needs to be nice to. I just did even more research on this group and found someone who's mother in-law and
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My daughter was pressured into attending The Gratitude Trainings in Florida, Ray Blanchard was the trainer for the first training. While the facade was education and a place to help people I found out that it was a money grubbing cult espousing worthless and scary new age philosophies. Ray Blanchard is supposed to be charming, he was at the graduation celebration, and he was extremely well
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I recently found out I had a co-worker that did the Gratitude Trainings in Florida for a year or so. I realize he was always mildly annoying as it was but for that year everyone in the office did their best to avoid talking to him. I asked some of my coworkers why. They said it was because all he was doing was recruiting/reciting back the feel-good messages they were pumping into his head. It d
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Gratitude Training in Florida and Charlotte is run by Jo Englesson. She is a self made guru who wants everyone to follow her. She and Ray Blnchard Uses same methods of training as other Large Group Awareness Trainings. She is Unethical, they use public Humiliation, Manipulation, and it is definiety a Cult, Everything is about their great leader. There are Agressive and Manipulative Sales Tacti
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So once again we havw new versions of the same thing. My wife is involved and has turned into a somewhat groupie. She keeps telling me I am a victim and makes me wron for thngs she thought before were OK. Watch pout for this one. Gratitude Trainings in Florida have the same Lifespring trainers. Jo Englesson is a guru wanna be leader. She is a good actress. Scary - relationships fail. And
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The newest LGAT on the block or cult is "Gratitude Training" The training is led by Ray Blanchard, the company owned by a fanatic Jo Englesson and trainer groupies like Liliana Barr. This company is hungry to expand to takeover and spread stuff. People become clones. Honestly, my alarm bells started going off the moment I walked into the room. Several control/power plays were estab
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