Re: Research re: LGAT's and Brainwashing
Further to the above post, I would like to develop a protocol for performing background checks on trainers, and training organizations.If your employer isn't conscientious enough to do this, YOU...
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Mr. 'X''s Linked-in profile indicates a "Masters in Psychology" from something called "Free University"...M.A.'s in Psychology do not refer to themselves as "psychologists".
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bakkagirl wrote:"'X' is an Organizational Development and Leadership professional with 25 years of working experience, out of which 12 years in Asia. He is an entrepreneur and active as an...
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kdag,This guy's bio features more red flags than a Chinese Communist parade.That said, I see the same constellation of pseudosciences, or inappropriately applied sciences on MANY profiles.As one who...
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Executive Success Programs, NXIVMHere is a feature length article describing how someone's brother was recruited into Keith Raniere's NXIVM.Raniere set it up to target high powered people."At This...
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corboy,Phew!!!What struck me in reading all of this (and, I will read the full article) is the role 'technologies' play in soul capture.I had read a lot about W.E. before I watched videos of his...
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Years ago, I heard someone describe how she felt when, for the first time, she injected herself with a mixture of heroin and methamphetamine - a combination known as a speedball.She told us that it...
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Corboy wrote:"LGATs probably cannot afford to do this kind of research.(Cough)"I did see that *cough* ;-DI just wanted to put together a couple of things that I have noticed from this thread, and...
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Replying to corboy and kdag,Let me tell you a bit more about what I saw in my 'field research'.I live in Japan, and do not have access to the resources available in English-speaking environments.I...
View ArticleNo "Adults in the Room"
What I can observe about the co-option of the coaching field, now complete, is that I kept waiting to hear from the "adults in the room"...the people who had serious skin in the game, the Ph'D's, the...
View ArticleInduction - what a bundle of meanings in a word
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...
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If we want to talk 'cults' this one is a seemingly 'guru'less, and loosely organized -- almost fluid.If anything, I am the person who keeps asking, "Where are our heroes, where are the practitioners...
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corboy,Your whole message didn't seem to post, so I previously responded to your cryptic title, only. See my comments below.You said,I have been in a situation like that. It was not coaching, though.I...
View ArticleInduction Technologies
I would like to run this by anyone who is interested.As far as I have been able to determine, the ICF (International Coach Federation) employs one simple devise to attract interest.This is a...
View ArticleQuestion for Landmark Education Survivors
Dear L.E.S's,I am currently background checking individuals involved in the coaching field, and particularly those who have been previously inducted into est, Landmark (all iterations) or the W.E....
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"X has a background in 'Finance'" -- this statement suggests to most readers that the party has significant training in this field, and has held senior leadership positions. Acting as Werner Erhard's...
View ArticleTwo techniques: Yes Set induction and Handshake induction
If a coach asks a series of seemingly trivial questions or a series of "stupid" questions to which an audience member -- or all of you answer Yes, Yes, Yes a series of questions to which most people...
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(Anecdote)People writing ads for a well known utterly infamous cult have used this type of questionnaire. I have seen ads online where you are asked a series of questions to which the vast majority of...
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corboy, thanks for all of this...For these little evangelist tent healer/coach events, it is more like some random volunteer bounds out of the audience and describes with relative clarity a very...
View ArticleMonologic vs. Dialogic 'Conversations'
It occurred to me that while the executive coaching enterprise places much focus on improving the coachee's ability to effectively communicate -- to talk, and to listen, the field, itself, is...
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