Re: masters in transformational training. Posted by: AScoWard () Date: March 29, 2018 12:41PM I’m curious what you thought about Level II (18 months ago is a long time, but if anything stuck…) Thanks!
Forum: Destructive Churches

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
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

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
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

Dear Righttofight-- That's a pretty grotesque experience - I can understand why you're both pissed off and wary. All I can say is that was not my experience.
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

Thank you, Dopamine Link, for posting this. Although I have seen this idea elsewhere - that Palahniuk intended a parallel between Fight Club and est - I've never seen anything from Chuck P about it. Has he ever publicly commented on this to anyone's knowledge? Or Tyler Durden as Werner Erhard? In Adaptation he satirized the writing guru, Robert McKee, who has had similar svengali-like p
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

I just saw this thread after posting elsewhere on the site. My apologies for reposting, but I think it's relevant to the discussion. I was a longtime subscriber to The Skeptical Inquirer, am a current subscriber to Scientific American, and have a T-shirt with the Carl Sagan quote, "I don't want to believe - I want to know." I am <allergic> to New Age Woo Woo. Nonethe
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

I was a longtime subscriber to The Skeptical Inquirer, am a current subscriber to Scientific American, and have a T-shirt with the Carl Sagan quote, "I don't want to believe - I want to know." I am <allergic> to New Age Woo Woo. Nonetheless, I took the MITT Basic, Advanced workshops (both 5-day) and 4-month Leadership Programs and consider them to be useful. Most of what I s
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"