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A user shares their experience of doing the Landmark Forum, a self-improvement seminar, and expresses their concerns about its business practices and social pressure. Other users comment with their opinions, stories, and advice on the forum.
Landmark has sometimes been described a cult, because of their attempts to convert participants to a new worldview and their recruitment tactics: they do not use advertising, but instead pressure participants during courses to recruit relatives and friends as new customers.
27 maj 2021 · I experienced Landmark Forum 13 years ago and this post is a good summary of it. It seems like they’ve settled on a bunch of heuristic mental models to (1) push people to change their state to potentially break out of old patterns and make life changes and (2) perpetuate the organization.
Users share their experiences and opinions on how Landmark Forum, a self-improvement program, affects people's beliefs and behaviors. Some describe it as a cult, a scam, or a waste of money, while others claim it helped them in various ways.
After you do SELP there is no deviation from Landmark's often out of date and scientifically incorrect worldview... so is that a cult? No. But the draconian outsider nature of the thing reminds people rightly so of cults.
28 lis 2015 · It was labeled a cult that practiced mind control (verbal abuse, sleep deprivation), a racket that exploited its followers (heavy recruiting, endless “graduate seminars”).
5 kwi 2015 · The author shares her personal account of doing the Landmark Forum, a three-day course that claims to reveal the secrets of life and reality. She questions the cult-like tactics, the cost, and the language of the course, but also acknowledges the value of the teachings.
