darkonc's Journal: On The Landmark Forum (Landmark Education)

I'd be inclined to go with the later (although I was extremely sceptical when I went in -- I was actually going on the presumption that they were a cult (due to a key misunderstanding on my part), I was trying to get enough information to get my mom 'out'. Needless to say, I've changed my mind -- bigtime. That was more than 10 years ago. I still think it's great, and would encourage people to take it (at the very least, go to an intro session. They're 3 hours, free, and most people get value out of them...
One of cousin kept going to the intro sessions but he never signed up. One time I invited him to another intro session, and he was "yeah... I think it's time to go to another one". I was like "hunh??". Turns out he was getting enough value out of the intro sessions, that he didn't see the need to actually sign up. I suggested that, if he was getting that much out of 3 hours, how much would he get out of the whole weekend?

On the sunday of the course, he was like: "How come you didn't make me sign up sooner?"

The vast majority of people who actually take (and complete) the course find it very worthwhile. About the worst review I'v gotten was "It's the best thing I've ever done in my life, but I'm not going to do it again". Since the crux of the course is in the last few hours, people who leave in the middle, may be a bit wierded out about the purpose of the whole thing.

Bottom line, I'd say 'do it'. If you haven't been to an intro, at least go to one, then decide for yourself. If you have any more questions, I'm thinking a private email might be a bit better (( bcgreen.com!spamuel , if you understand the old usenet email protocol )), but either location's fine with me.

Now there's this Journal entry where we can chat 'in private', so to speak.

Key misunderstanding

[stanmann]

You say that you went in with a misunderstanding leading you to think that it might be a cult. I was invited a year or two back to an intro and going on the too good to be true so look it up in deja and yahoo found a multitude of cult references. What was the misunderstanding you had and how was it corrected.

Re:Key misunderstanding

[Stephen Samuel]

After the course they offer Seminars... The Seminars are $100 for 10 Sessions (I think they're a bit more, now) roughly once per week.

We lived in Edmonton at the time, and the only seminars offered at the time were in Calgary (180mi south). I thought that -- not only was she going all the way to Calgary for these seminars, but she was paying $100 a pop to do so (as opposed to the reality of $10/pop (plus [shared] gas)).

It was the order-of-magnitude error in cost that had me thinking that they must be a