18 Landmark (The Forum)
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This article is from the Self Improvement FAQ, by Loren Larsen llarsen@cs.clemson.edu with numerous contributions by others.
18 Landmark (The Forum)
(Editor note: The following two questions about The Forum are from
an email conversation between one of the editors and an
alt.self-improve reader, Rex Ballard. Included here with permission.)
Q. The promises of Est are basically the same as every other self
improvement program ever devised. How does it work? Why does it
get results where others fail?
A. Transformation - the "fruit" of a "self-help" program, comes, not
from telling or talking to, but from the inquiry. Tranformation
comes as the result of a conversation for fulfilling a possibility.
It is much like learning to ride a bicycle, I can tell you how to
ride a bicycle: "grab the handlebars, push off, and pedal". But it
is only in the inquiry that one actually discovers balance.
Without the experience of balance, there is no riding a bicycle.
Without the inquiry, the distinctions are just "interesting
information".
From the inquiry, the particpant can expect a breakthrough - the
fulfillment of possibilities that would not otherwise happen. A
major alteration in relationships, confidence, effectiveness, or
decision making that they may have been putting up with, resisting,
or trying to change for years with no significant effect.
Landmark offers free introductory seminars nearly every day at
their various centers and sites throughout the country. In these
seminars, the introduction leader will explain some of the key
distinctions of the Forum. Many people who never do the Forum
still end up taking on their lives in a new way out of going to a
3 hour introduction. About 1/3 will register for the Forum itself
which lasts 3 days and an evening, usually Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday from 9 AM to 11 PM or 1 AM (If there are a bunch of Lawyers
in the room, plan on a long night friday). By the end of each
night, you will not be tired until you want to be. Tuesday night,
you return to complete the homework. The course is actually 5
days, but two of them are "laboratory" days. In the 3 day program,
a highly trained leader leads an inquiry in a room with 100-200
successful people who are highly committed to having a
breakthrough. The leader will describe a distinction and then ask
people to share their experience. In a room of 150+ people, there
are several who want to share. As that person shares, the Forum
leader asks questions, soon the whole room is seeing how this
conversation can impact their lives. By the end of the
converstation, everyone in the room not only has an insight, but
also sees an opening for action at the first opportunity.
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