Landmark Forum Landmark Run Nationwide

I agree with several points of your review. Luckily, I can still say "No." I did get a lot out of it. It gave me the tools i wanted to take control of my life in a constructive way. Now i can have conversations with people and not get all bunched up and ready to fight for my opinion. I was able to go to the Forum and pick apart the flaws that i created that cause me problems in life. Like handling confrontation, preventing people feeling like they have to think about how to talk to me and vice versa. I don't get a knot in my gut anytime someone doesn't like me or doesn't agree with me. I was pretty stuck in my behavior. 

So, that said, if you are pretty well rounded and sensible, the forum offers some great insight into your own behaviors that you yourself will discover. They have designed a program to provoke your thinking to allow you to come to your own understanding of how you operate. And then they give you ways to Stop doing it...Now. And helps you be accountible for your choices and decisions. And how to start a repairing conversation with people you've hurt or have hurt you. 

I have regained my family relationships, patched it up with an ex-boyfriend so we can be good, real friends and I am making huge strides at work with new ideas and other options to improve the company. 

I can see where you use the word Cult- some people who have gone with me really dive in. I'm not a joiner by nature and I will also not be pushed into doing anything I don't want to do. But at least now I know why I won't. I get me. Now no one esle has to "deal with" me. I can stop doing that crap and just be a good person to people. It's nice. And I'm not Hook, Line and Sinker LANDMARK. I apply it to my life and the tools are pretty easy. 

I did find some of the information conflicting in the Advanced course. Frankly, it bothered me coming out of that one. I waited several months before I decided to go. i worked on all of the tools they gave me the first go. I decided I wanted one more run on something else I was stuck on. For me, It did Work. I went in looking for the keys to the kingdom on my behavior and I got it. I completely got it. 

I think today people are very self-focused. People have lost being neighborly, lost taking care of the elderly, lost respecting our elders, lost respect for each other. We don't even talk anymore, we text and hide behind a monitor on social media. Like now- Haha...But this brings you back to being connected to people around you through talking. I needed it. And I appreciate my learning experience with their help. 

I was glad to go so that I can see how my behavior actually causes conflict with others that I don't intend. Now I can communicate with others and I genuinely feel caring about people around me. People should. I do. It gave me patience with others. That was worth it.

So if you are smart and you are ready to look at yourself and you are the type of person to resist pressure and only do what you want to do, then you won't go wrong taking the initial Landmark Forum. The benefits are healing. 

The first one truly accelerates getting to your issues far faster than multiple trips to therapy or couples counseling...or doing nothing but choke it down. That's how I ended up going. Or maybe you want to turn in toward a new career? Both of those were reasons for me to go. I was lucky. 

I learned how to get out of my own way and stop living on old feelings dragged around from the past that were blocking my successes. 

People should exercise good judgement and know what they want out of the classes. It is tough to sit there for so long but remember, it is designed to help you get to what's bugging you. An uncomfortable schedule will certainly edge up your feelings when you aren't comfortable. HAha- I have no doubt it is by design. And also remember, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. If you don't want to do what is asked, then don't. But be clear where you are thinking from- is it that angry voice in your head or your heart? It helps you figure that out. HAha. 

I hope this helps others to understand the other side of this review. Thanks, V/R Tina