I read the article in the link, and this jumped out at me, (excerpt):
"At the workshop, everyone was told, or told themselves, when exactly the wound occurred and how it occurred. We all, to my knowledge, bought into this line of thinking and we all accepted our "story" and it became for all of us the enemy of our "wellbeing", the enemy of our vitality and of our very life.
A FEW MORE QUESTIONS
"Is there truth to this? From a psychological perspective, childhood wounds do affect us later on. But I still have a few questions:
"Are we absolutely certain that the founder properly diagnosed which experience it actually was? Is he qualified to make such a diagnoses? What about the other trainers with even less experience?
"Would a trained psychologist be able to diagnose something so significant so quickly? Does his Landmark training somehow make him better at this than licensed professionals?"
Since Landmark was mentioned here, I can say that I do remember a similar question being posed in the Forum. I recall searching my memory for the one experience that was at the root of all my problems in life, and failing to come up with anything I was truly convinced of, I just went ahead and picked an unpleasant childhood experience. I felt, even at the time, that it really isn't that simple. Most people have numerous unpleasant experiences in their childhoods, and I didn't believe for a minute that singling out just one, and pinning everything on that incident would cause all of my difficulties to disappear. It hasnt. In fact, from what I have read, it is usually long-term family dynamics that have more of an impact than a single incident.
"At the workshop, everyone was told, or told themselves, when exactly the wound occurred and how it occurred. We all, to my knowledge, bought into this line of thinking and we all accepted our "story" and it became for all of us the enemy of our "wellbeing", the enemy of our vitality and of our very life.
A FEW MORE QUESTIONS
"Is there truth to this? From a psychological perspective, childhood wounds do affect us later on. But I still have a few questions:
"Are we absolutely certain that the founder properly diagnosed which experience it actually was? Is he qualified to make such a diagnoses? What about the other trainers with even less experience?
"Would a trained psychologist be able to diagnose something so significant so quickly? Does his Landmark training somehow make him better at this than licensed professionals?"
Since Landmark was mentioned here, I can say that I do remember a similar question being posed in the Forum. I recall searching my memory for the one experience that was at the root of all my problems in life, and failing to come up with anything I was truly convinced of, I just went ahead and picked an unpleasant childhood experience. I felt, even at the time, that it really isn't that simple. Most people have numerous unpleasant experiences in their childhoods, and I didn't believe for a minute that singling out just one, and pinning everything on that incident would cause all of my difficulties to disappear. It hasnt. In fact, from what I have read, it is usually long-term family dynamics that have more of an impact than a single incident.
