@bd,
I was involved with Landmark for a little over a year. During seminars, they would train us on how to anticipate and sidestep peoples' reasons, (or according to them, "excuses"), for not attending, but we weren't actually given a script for recruiting people.
The Forum leaders do follow an actual script, but the rank and file participants are just told to notice what their would-be recruits are concerned about, and offer Landmark as the solution. There was role-playing, where one person would try to recruit, and the other would come up with reasons they could not attend. I felt like I was watching them train cattle dogs. The goal of the "recruiter," would be to come up with an immediate solution for whatever reason was given, examples were:
Target: " I can't, because I will be out of town that week."
Recruiter: " That's fine. We have another introduction scheduled two weeks later."
Taget: "But i can never find a sitter."
Recruiter: " I have a friend who will babysit for free."
and the perennial favorite,
Target: "I can't afford it."
Recruiter: "I'll loan you the money." (Don't let them do that!!!)
...and on and on ad nauseam. All you can really say is, "No. I'm not interested." And even that may not get them off your back. Then they go to, "Aren't you interested in having a better life?" or "Are you so selfish that you don't want to make a difference?" (eyeroll).
Maybe people are given scripts in the ILP. I never took that course, (and had to tell them over and over that I was not interested), but we were all told to go out and try to rope people in, and no actual script.
I was involved with Landmark for a little over a year. During seminars, they would train us on how to anticipate and sidestep peoples' reasons, (or according to them, "excuses"), for not attending, but we weren't actually given a script for recruiting people.
The Forum leaders do follow an actual script, but the rank and file participants are just told to notice what their would-be recruits are concerned about, and offer Landmark as the solution. There was role-playing, where one person would try to recruit, and the other would come up with reasons they could not attend. I felt like I was watching them train cattle dogs. The goal of the "recruiter," would be to come up with an immediate solution for whatever reason was given, examples were:
Target: " I can't, because I will be out of town that week."
Recruiter: " That's fine. We have another introduction scheduled two weeks later."
Taget: "But i can never find a sitter."
Recruiter: " I have a friend who will babysit for free."
and the perennial favorite,
Target: "I can't afford it."
Recruiter: "I'll loan you the money." (Don't let them do that!!!)
...and on and on ad nauseam. All you can really say is, "No. I'm not interested." And even that may not get them off your back. Then they go to, "Aren't you interested in having a better life?" or "Are you so selfish that you don't want to make a difference?" (eyeroll).
Maybe people are given scripts in the ILP. I never took that course, (and had to tell them over and over that I was not interested), but we were all told to go out and try to rope people in, and no actual script.