I have been in a situation like that. It was not coaching, though.
I felt like everyone in there was stoned except for me. What I did not know at the time was they were all tranced out, all focused on the leader. He had created
a New Age product using these people as his students decades before. They were incapable of seeing or discussing this product in any objective manner.
He had them convinced it was sacred. And, they thought he was sacred too. He'd tranced them out. They were still his property, decades later.
I was so horrified by this that I wanted to understand more. And - that is why
I began participating on this discussion board.
bakka, what you appear to describe is this:
Loss of objectivity.
Loss of objectivity in relation to whatever coaching method the person has trained in.
The person's identity, sense of self has merged with the brand of coaching tech they've been inducted into.
In this case, they have not consciously consented to this induction, for they have not been told beforehand that their coaching training is based on hypnotic trance induction. Nor are they told the sources of this material, or the names and backgrounds of the persons who created this technology.
A hair dresser can recommend several different hairstyles, show you pictures, and suggest which would look best on you.
Your hairdresser is not someone who can do just one hairstyle and believes that every single person in the world needs that hairstyle.
This coaching situation is worse. Minds are being ruined and relationships are being ruined. People refusing to submit to coaching risk losing their jobs.
Corporate cultures are being corrupted. So are certain university departments and think tanks.
If too many 'leaders' become products of trance coaching, we citizens who wish to live unmolested are at greater risk than ever before.
Note on word usage.
I used the word inducted deliberately.
We speak of musicians being 'inducted' into the armed forces, into various Halls of Fame.
Interestingly, induction is used to describe onset of anesthesia.
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we also speak of hypnotic induction.
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Trance induction.
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I felt like everyone in there was stoned except for me. What I did not know at the time was they were all tranced out, all focused on the leader. He had created
a New Age product using these people as his students decades before. They were incapable of seeing or discussing this product in any objective manner.
He had them convinced it was sacred. And, they thought he was sacred too. He'd tranced them out. They were still his property, decades later.
I was so horrified by this that I wanted to understand more. And - that is why
I began participating on this discussion board.
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It was impossible to have generic conversations about coaching among people trained in different 'programs'. While I was looking for commonalities in the approaches (and these existed), each faction saw their 'programming' as unique and superior.
bakka, what you appear to describe is this:
Loss of objectivity.
Loss of objectivity in relation to whatever coaching method the person has trained in.
The person's identity, sense of self has merged with the brand of coaching tech they've been inducted into.
In this case, they have not consciously consented to this induction, for they have not been told beforehand that their coaching training is based on hypnotic trance induction. Nor are they told the sources of this material, or the names and backgrounds of the persons who created this technology.
A hair dresser can recommend several different hairstyles, show you pictures, and suggest which would look best on you.
Your hairdresser is not someone who can do just one hairstyle and believes that every single person in the world needs that hairstyle.
This coaching situation is worse. Minds are being ruined and relationships are being ruined. People refusing to submit to coaching risk losing their jobs.
Corporate cultures are being corrupted. So are certain university departments and think tanks.
If too many 'leaders' become products of trance coaching, we citizens who wish to live unmolested are at greater risk than ever before.
Note on word usage.
I used the word inducted deliberately.
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in·duct
in?d?kt/Submit
verb
1.
admit (someone) formally to a position or organization.
"each worker, if formally inducted into the Mafia, is known as a “soldier.”"
synonyms: admit to, allow into, introduce to, initiate into, install in, instate in, swear into; appoint to
"the new ministers were inducted into the cabinet"
2.
archaic
install in a seat or room.
We speak of musicians being 'inducted' into the armed forces, into various Halls of Fame.
Interestingly, induction is used to describe onset of anesthesia.
[www.google.com]
we also speak of hypnotic induction.
[www.google.com]
Trance induction.
[www.google.com]