SpeakingUp Wrote:
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> Friends who have done Landmark use terminology and
> words that are unrecognised in a normal
> conversation.
>
> They're almost robotic and have no real
> personality. I noticed any questions against
> landmark or challenging Landmark have a cookie
> cutter response.
>
> It all comes down to "when you do the landmark
> forum' you'll see for yourself.
>
> I am researching coaching programs related to Landmark. My research was first driven by concern about the bizarre changes I was seeing in the behavior of friends and colleagues who participated in this 'training'.
One friend participated in a training program, "Ontological Coaching," which I now understand to be a facsimile of est/Landmark programs.
This program was six months in duration, on-site, on-line.
I can say that the individual became VERY secretive about what he was doing in his 'training program'...and, I did get the, "you just have to experience it"...
I noticed a certain arrogance..."I have all the answers'ness", which was out of character.
Here is the strangest bit, though...
To 'thank' me for providing a bit of mentoring during his program, this fellow invited me to a classical music concert.
The 'performer' was a child prodigy, allegedly age 10, but clearly the budding breasts had been taped.
The child played piano and violin, in a virtuoso but completely robotic fashion.
She appeared to be taking direction from someone standing in the balcony, her father.
From time to time she picked up a purple plastic tube (all sparkly) and said she was 'channeling' musical ideas through this.
The small theater's audience was filled with kids, and also adults. Some of these were the talent 'developers' famous for producing child 'entertainers' in the country I live in. Many are known as pedophiles/sexual predators.
I told my friend I was uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but he was absolutely entranced by this child performer, the whole weird scene, and to the extent that I waited for 20 mins in the lobby after show, while he tried to get a picture taken with the girl performer.
I believe my friend (not a music lover) must have heard about this concert, and display of magical human power (musical) from his coaching buddies.
Frankly, this event rated up there with the creepiest things I seen in my life.
I also felt I was sitting there with a stranger and somebody I did not know anymore.
Bakkagirl
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> Friends who have done Landmark use terminology and
> words that are unrecognised in a normal
> conversation.
>
> They're almost robotic and have no real
> personality. I noticed any questions against
> landmark or challenging Landmark have a cookie
> cutter response.
>
> It all comes down to "when you do the landmark
> forum' you'll see for yourself.
>
> I am researching coaching programs related to Landmark. My research was first driven by concern about the bizarre changes I was seeing in the behavior of friends and colleagues who participated in this 'training'.
One friend participated in a training program, "Ontological Coaching," which I now understand to be a facsimile of est/Landmark programs.
This program was six months in duration, on-site, on-line.
I can say that the individual became VERY secretive about what he was doing in his 'training program'...and, I did get the, "you just have to experience it"...
I noticed a certain arrogance..."I have all the answers'ness", which was out of character.
Here is the strangest bit, though...
To 'thank' me for providing a bit of mentoring during his program, this fellow invited me to a classical music concert.
The 'performer' was a child prodigy, allegedly age 10, but clearly the budding breasts had been taped.
The child played piano and violin, in a virtuoso but completely robotic fashion.
She appeared to be taking direction from someone standing in the balcony, her father.
From time to time she picked up a purple plastic tube (all sparkly) and said she was 'channeling' musical ideas through this.
The small theater's audience was filled with kids, and also adults. Some of these were the talent 'developers' famous for producing child 'entertainers' in the country I live in. Many are known as pedophiles/sexual predators.
I told my friend I was uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but he was absolutely entranced by this child performer, the whole weird scene, and to the extent that I waited for 20 mins in the lobby after show, while he tried to get a picture taken with the girl performer.
I believe my friend (not a music lover) must have heard about this concert, and display of magical human power (musical) from his coaching buddies.
Frankly, this event rated up there with the creepiest things I seen in my life.
I also felt I was sitting there with a stranger and somebody I did not know anymore.
Bakkagirl