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5 reviews for Landmark Education
This is the single best thing you can do for your life! Run, don't walk to sign up for the Forum, a 3-days-plus-one-evening transformation workshop. Guaranteed to give you a whole new future of possibilities for all aspects of your life, this company keeps its promises and delivers results. You will have amazing breakthroughs right away!
I had a new job offer immediately after the Forum, and my relationships to work and family are transformed.
Landmark also offers free leadership training in their "assisting program", where specific detailed instructions for being effective in a business setting are transmitted. Amazing. Life-changing. Don't wait to check this out. It's currently $395 for the Forum and a 10-session seminar.
Interesting! I have mixed reviews.
I have been yelled at that I MUST take Landmark - by someone with a degree in international business who ended up washing windows- umm not a great recommendation!
One friend took a training; told me it would change my life as it did hers. Wel, she did change her job- from within a company - already had a salary and longevity - she tried to tell me this woud l be equally easy to apply to getting into a company. MMM maybe not.
Another compadre is still not working because he decided to do one thing and it didnt work out.Then I am involved with someone with a good heart who couldnt figure out her community assignment and kept asking me for more and more help.
FED UP! I called the office and spoke with the coordinator. I am invited to a free seminar. He listened - no yelling, no screaming, just non-judgmental listening. He corroborated that which I thought - they have much good to share BUT an individual must use that which is taught. I also think that people are ready to make changes in their lives more or less deeply and commited at some times than others.
I expect to try out a workshop and gain from it.
It is definitely worth looking at .. but one must take responsibility for on'es own discovery and opening into a world.
Read Nathan K's review. I'm having the same problem he had: How do you explaining what is impossible? He gave it a go, and I think he really summed it up well. However, it's really long, and you have a short attention span, so read this at least:
"Want to lose some weight? Go to Jenny Craig. Want to see why you do nothing about your weight? Or wanna create a context for losing weight that inspires you? Do the Forum. (I've lost 12# in 2 wks!)
Want your marriage to work? Go to a marriage counselor. Want to see why you're committed to things staying just the way they are--and griping about it? Do the Forum.
Want a better job? Send out resumes. Want to see why you're committed to things staying just the way they are--and griping about it? Do the Forum."
Yeah. Nathan also said this:
"Landmark Education is about the context of your life. You are used to working and focusing on the content of your life--moving the pieces around inside the box. To you, the box is invisible, you only see the pieces. The context of your life, the box, is the meaning you've given the content.
Gaining the ability to see the context of your life is the ambition or promise of many disciplines. Landmark delivers it in 3 days."
Thanks Nathan.
Here's my contribution:
This is one of those moments that I wish we could give extra stars. Like... what if once, ONLY ONCE, in your entire Yelping review career, could you give 6 stars instead of 5? Maybe just ONE review in your entire collection can have 6, and you can change it, but the previously 6 star review goes down to a 5?
That would be pretty cool. And in that world, Landmark would get 6 stars, and I'd be bitching because I can't give it 7.
Now, many people have asked me, "Will, you all of a sudden are alive. Like, you were in black and white, and you're in color. And we always thought of anyone around us, you were the one in color. But now you're REALLY IN COLOR, like what the hell? Gimme some of that!"
Because I'm inspired. Why am I inspired? To really explain it would take me about 40 hours doing this really amazing methodology to explain it. And why do that, when there is a guy at Landmark who can do it better, has been doing it better, and you can get the experience the way you're supposed to?
I've been asked, "Is it a cult?" No. "Is it 'positive thinking?'" No. "Is it a scam?" No. "I read on the internet that it's like Scientology and they're going to brain wash me and take all my money." Nope. They're not. In fact, several very successful companies require their employees to do Landmark as training. And they're successful companies. There's a reason.
"Like who?"
Here's the example that really snapped me in, got me to really get into the game and play it, rather than sit in the stands and watch: Remember when Apple Computers was tanking back in the 90s? And then all of a sudden they came out with "Think Different" and the iMac and OS X and iLife and the iPod and the iPhone and all that shit that even Windows users are forced to admit they like and admire?
Apple hired the business consulting side of Landmark to come in and help them figure it out.
Their stock went from $8 to $80 then split and jumped to like $60.
So let's put it this way: Yes. Sure. It's brainwashing. They're brainwashing you into being an inspired, fulfilled, productive, ALIVE person. They're saying, "hey, you're doing fine. You're successful and you're living and you've got a life that 90% of the world wishes they had. But you're still unhappy with it. Here's how to be happy with it."
All the cynics say, "Well, they MUST be getting something out of it! I'm going to get SCAMMED! They're going to TRICK ME! I don't NEED THIS!"
Yep, Landmark does get something from you: you pay for the training (like you would for any training, and if you compare it to other training seminars, it's MUCH cheaper, and way more effective). And then Landmark gets to continue on their mission of getting more people to be living happy, fulfilled, inspired lives.
Because what happens when everyone around you is happy, inspired, and fulfilled? Just imagine it for a moment. Consider it possible, and toss away the cynicism and skepticism and 'but that's not reality' bullshit, and really just imagine that.
Pretty awesome, right?
Run far away from anyone associated with this group.
I confess. I'm a groupie at Landmark. I first did the Forum in 1988. My wife's comment upon my return to the TriCities was, "I didn't know this about you before you went, but you've had a stone face for years. Now you don't. Go get some more of whatever that is."
We divorced later--but as a result of Landmark's efforts to make me a mensch, she lets me stay at her house when i visit, and said nice things about me at our daughter's wedding banquet and includes me in extended family events when i visit my kids at holidays.
My kids have done the Forum, my dad, my brothers. My current wife did it in 1976 the first time it came to Seattle. All her sisters, some of her nieces. About 50 of my friends because of me jumping up and down saying, "Whoopee Whoopee you gotta do this!!"
Explaining what it is is impossible, and now i'll explain that--which is impossible too.
Landmark Education is about the context of your life. You are used to working and focusing on the content of your life--moving the pieces around inside the box. To you, the box is invisible, you only see the pieces. The context of your life, the box, is the meaning you've given the content.
Gaining the ability to see the context of your life is the ambition or promise of many disciplines. Landmark delivers it in 3 days. Well, actually they deliver a good look in 3 days. Taking action on what you see is a gawdawful life-long work, and they have inexpensive seminars to keep you at that work.
Want to lose some weight? Go to Jenny Craig. Want to see why you do nothing about your weight? Or wanna create a context for losing weight that inspires you? Do the Forum. (I've lost 12# in 2 wks!)
Want your marriage to work? Go to a marriage counselor. Want to see why you're committed to things staying just the way they are--and griping about it? Do the Forum.
Want a better job? Send out resumes. Want to see why you're committed to things staying just the way they are--and griping about it? Do the Forum.
Because the context of your life is invisible to you, describing what seeing it is like is impossible. Describing how to get you to see it is impossible. I recommend Disney's The Kid with Bruce Willis for an example of seeing the context of a life.
My wife just summed it up: Landmark is about developing a relationship with your mind--instead of BEING it. If you understand that, you're either fooling yourself, or your middle name is Dalai.
July 2008: Just did the Forum a FOURTH TIME! and realized that I didn't "get" it the first 3 times. Got a lot of value, but didn't "get" what the Forum is. Now that should help illustrate why it is so difficult to explain it to you. So here's another try: there's a lot about your life and why you do what you do that you don't know you don't know. More that you don't know you don't know than what you do know or know you don't know. Still with me? So the Forum is a modern Socrates standing up front, leading you thru some thought experiments ("OK, try this on. Suppose you . . .") The cumulative effect of these thought experiments is that you see things about yourself you never knew. Some of these things are hilarious, like you start the Forum whining that your spouse doesn't understand you as well as you understand him/her. And after one of these thought experiments, it comes to you, "Geez! NOBODY could understand me--because i'm sneaky and I hide my life and thoughts." And that will probably set you laughing. Or, you start out whining your life sucks. And then you see that the context of your life is, "I'm a victim." You see that like you never saw it before. But that ain't funny. Probably wanna barf on that one.
To sum up, how could someone who's done the Forum tell you what you don't know you don't know about your life? And if they could tell you, telling you wouldn't do you any good. You have to unconceal it yourself, and go "AHA!"
Oh, Hell--sum up? Can't. Just have to shut me up. Here's another slice at this thing, The Landmark Forum: http://www.newyorker.c...
Walter Mischel tested kids' self-control and delayed-gratification and found that "metacognition" learned early made a huge difference in a life. That's what the Forum is! It is "live theatre" with a series of "try this on" exercises, that causes you to become conscious of how you think. Being conscious of your automatic thought processes allows you to manage your thoughts. The ability to manage your mind gives you an enormous head-start over the rest of our race. With this proviso: YOU manage your mind inside YOUR values and commitments. Landmark doesn't tell you what values or commitments you should have. As a friend put it, "If you are committed to being an ass-hole, you'll come out a more powerful ass-hole." He's got it right--except my experience with Forum grads is that when human beings get conscious, they get generous, forgiving, and contributing.