TALKINGMOUSE,
The trail goes back further than 30 years, and all the way to the first administrations of so-called "sensitivity training", or T-groups. These programs were run out of the National Training Lab in Bethel, Maine in the 1970's and 1980's, and they were run globally.
A three-year research study in Japan was terminated in its second year owing to multiple suicides, and I am informed that at least two of these occurred DURING the T-group session. These suicides were recorded across multiple groups, and in different organizations. The facilitators, Japanese academics, had been trained by the 'experts' at NTL.
A "sensitivity training" program conducted in California public schools in the 1970's was also terminated (suicides). The facilitators were psychologists.
It is a misnomer that bad outcomes of these interventions are owing, solely, to their being administered by un- or under-trained facilitators.
The trail goes back further than 30 years, and all the way to the first administrations of so-called "sensitivity training", or T-groups. These programs were run out of the National Training Lab in Bethel, Maine in the 1970's and 1980's, and they were run globally.
A three-year research study in Japan was terminated in its second year owing to multiple suicides, and I am informed that at least two of these occurred DURING the T-group session. These suicides were recorded across multiple groups, and in different organizations. The facilitators, Japanese academics, had been trained by the 'experts' at NTL.
A "sensitivity training" program conducted in California public schools in the 1970's was also terminated (suicides). The facilitators were psychologists.
It is a misnomer that bad outcomes of these interventions are owing, solely, to their being administered by un- or under-trained facilitators.