Landmark

I took 3 landmark classes that qualified me to take the Introduction Leader Program, their self-​styled flagship course.
While the lessons on integrity, responsibility, personal excellence were incredible and the overall theme of learning to manage your own ego was great, Landmark is not a solution for all problems in life.
Anytime you pointed out anything that you think was not done well or could have been different or better, the manager tells you that it’s just your ego acting up and you should «get off it» and move on to the next task at hand.
Like any organization, there are 2 kinds of people. On the one hand, there are people at landmark who are there to learn a few things, enjoy themselves and go home. Then, there are the ones who drink the kool-​aid hook, line, and sinker. They remind me of church people. They are nice on the surface but woe be to the infidel who contradicts their beliefs.
It’s definitely not a cult, because you are free to come and go as you please, but there is always an overwhelming amount of peer pressure to buy into everything that’s going on. They are a corporation after all. This is what corporations do.
There’s also this aspect of some courses where they have you call people off these little white cards. They are the ones who went to an introduction and indicted an interest. You spend hours doing this. It’s free inside sales and businesses development for your center because the landmark centers all over the world are in competition to see who can get the highest enrollment. They make it sound like some noble mission to save humanity. It’s just sales. A lot of SMART people in my group complained about this aspect of it and when leadership was challenged on the no-​pay issue, their response was a very weak «well, consider it further training we are providing you…» yeah, I thought it was a BS response as well.
I’d recommend trying the forum, their flagship course. You’ll learn some stuff about yourself and be able to make a few things in life better.
But, like anything else, it’s not a cure-​all and DO NOT get wrapped up with the overly enthusiastic «churchy» «landmark for life» crowd. They’re groupies. Nothing more.
Final story before I go…
One day, I invite a guy I know from my Landmark center to lunch. My wife, who has not done landmark, was there. As we talk, it comes out that she has not done landmark. This clown immediately launches into a diatribe about how landmark rocketed his relationship with his wife to the next level and how if she doesn’t do Landmark, our marriage will stay stuck and never flourish and all this other happy horses – t not worth mentioning. My wife is an intelligent, polite woman with her doctorate, so she gave this idiot the courtesy of letting him finish his spiel about how much better our relationship would be if we only signed up for more landmark.
Now, pause the action.
I promise you WILL run into morons like this guy all over the landmark education landscape. Under the guise of being «fully self expressed», there are many, many antisocial and antagonistic comments made under the guise of helping someone. This was one example. I have never spoken to this person again nor would I. His remark was beyond inappropriate. His wife is a fool for being married to such an arrogant prick who thinks it’s his job to go around Boston snd tell people how to run their marriages.
Like I said… if you can stay away from the overzealous little jerks that populate a lot of the landmark world, youll be alright. There are some decent lessons. And everyone has a radically different experience, so it’s a coin flip. But then again, so is everything else we do in life.
Good luck.

This place really empowers. So easy to get to via the red train line as well. I just called and talked to a staff member named Lauren and she was so welcoming, professional and knowledgeable. The courses I’ve taken have altered a really great life to one that is off the charts awesome! Highly recommend.

One of the best things I have ever done in my life is take the recommendation for this course. I’m not exaggerating! I found my husband because if this course and reconnected with my folks.

I have found the center manager to be insincere, and on numerous occasions has failed to keep her commitments with me. The Forum claims that «Everything you want for yourself and your life is possible» through their programs. This is of course ridiculous. As not everything is possible. Unless you believe that anything is possible through God. But even then, Landmark is certainly NOT God.

When people ask me «What’s Landmark?» I call it «enlightenment with training wheels.» Without too much semantic wrangling, I think of enlightenment as a state of awareness characterized by the absence of projection, an experiencing the universe without the need to label said experience. In a sense, Landmark takes this a step further by teaching how to use language to manifest the realities we want to see for us and for the world. Whereas traditional enlightenment is attained through meditation, Landmark transformation is attained by using language to undo our assumptions about ourselves and the world. What’s left is who and what we create when we are awake. Needless to say I recommend Landmark to everyone. Cult-​like? I’m convinced that the charge of «cult-​like» comes from 2 camps: those who react to transformation itself (because misery loves company and hates happiness) and those who feel pressured to attempt to transform others. I understand where both come from — the thing is, once one gets transformation one wants to give it away to everyone. If you don’t get it, you can’t give it — even if you claim that’s what you want. Chances are you’ve heard about Landmark from someone who loves you and you’ve come on here to talk yourself out of doing it. Consider coming to an introduction — it will cost you nothing. There’s one on Thursday, Feb. 6^th by Guy Maytal. It starts at 7 and it’s free. Make the leap.

I have found benefit to this program but I do have issue with their refund/​rescheduling policy. They claim to be easy with refunds or rescheduling but that’s not what I’ve found. I’ve tried to reschedule one forum this month to take it instead in December, I’ll be out of the country. I let them know this back in August I would be out of the country but they said it would cost me $ 2xx.00 to reschedule. Even though I wanted to do the class in December. I do enjoy the learning I have experienced with them so far. Just not very happy with their policy when it comes to scheduling.

I did the Forum recently, based on really glowing recommendations from people I admire and trust. I didn’t connect well with it, but I witnessed a range of benefit in other people (from powerful, honest personal «transformation» to simply greater confidence and honesty). I think that for $ 525 it’s a great deal of useful information and coaching. And if you’re one of the people who turns their life around because of this, well, it would be cheap at twice the price.
That being said: I do find the institution itself, as well as the structure in which they presented the information, unpalatable. But the «don’t do it it’s a cult» rants on the internet are way overblown. It’s a business that wants you to lock into its methodology so you keep contributing (time and/​or money), and they are up front about it. Some people get as passionate about the methodology as they might about a cult, I guess, but there’s no being-​locked-​in-​a-​basement-​and-​forced-​to-​cry stuff.
And even if it WERE a cult, it would be a fairly innocuous one. Its fundamental message (as I perceive it) is self-​empowerment through awareness of, and generosity to, yourself and your fellow human beings. If only most religions were as successful at conveying this message as this for-​profit organization…
Since this IS Unilocal,I’ll do a little facility-​reviewing :) The Quincy center is easy to get to: not far off 93, right across from a T stop, and there’s ample parking. The building is in good repair, has well maintained restrooms, and feels safe and well-​lit at night. At the time of this review, there’s also a Starbucks conveniently across the street and restaurants a near walk away.
I found a Unilocal review of the LA center to be spot-​on to my experience in most respects:

It’s been nearly 4 years since I first took the Landmark Forum, weekend course, which included a free 10-​session weekly seminar on, living a life of integrity. Although I have not attended the advanced course, I feel that I have received incredible benefit out of my participation in the Landmark Forum. I saw myself from an entirely new perspective and the self-​awareness techniques I learned to manage everyday situations continues to be available to me as needed.
At the time, I was the president of a midsized Website development agency and quite unsatisfied in my role. The Monday morning after I attended the Landmark Forum weekend course, I chose to step down from my position as president and launched a new company. Success followed me in my new company, which was acquired last year! Now, I am the President of the American Marketing Association in Boston, the Chief Marketing Officer in the new agency and absolutely love what I do.
Landmark Education did not teach me how to find success or make smart business decisions. It did however, give me the ability to discover the clarity I needed and choose what I already knew was best for my life and my family.
If you are like me, it’s likely that you already have untapped potential and the ability to achieve something remarkable. Landmark Education will help you see your own possibilities and then the rest is up to you.

I don’t believe it’s possible to give a higher rating for any sort of education or life coaching than 5 stars. I can give it 5 stars, pay them the course tuition, but what I’ve learned from the Landmark Forum and the Integrity seminar has done nothing less than changed my life.
I used to consider myself, well adjusted, accomplished, etc. Yet when I looked at all the hardships in my life I see them as a «rite of passage» in order to achieve success and what I wanted in life. I could not have been more wrong about my assumptions, as they were based upon a half-​ass view of whats possible in life, in our relationships and in my personal perceptions.
Through just the forum alone, my life view has changed, for the better. and the tools they provide for literally transforming oneself into living possiblity are nothing less than unprecedented.
If you are interested why relationships don’t work, why we feel anxiety, why we procrastinate, why we feel drained and let things get to us, and SO much more, simply start by taking the Landmark Forum. That may be all you ever need … if you really see the value in their content, I recommend the Integrity seminar as Its something I also have experienced and can personally say it is life-​changing.
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