These are my findings of recent events......

I was introduced by a good friend of mine to an "education" class... it did not sit well with me last night as I'm sitting in the second class.... read any or all of this.

LET ME HEAR YOUR OPINIONS! This is an email I sent to my friend, after researching... not to 100% as I did not have enough time.... but here it is... if you see where i need corrections let me know. More people need to know about these things!!!

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Please read everything before you make a decision... And make it your OWN decision and not what you think Summit would want you to do.

Please read this..... I'm just concerned really. I sensed something last night that did not sit well with my intuition or gut feeling. SO I decided to research as much as possible in the time allotted during my work day. Don't take anything the wrong way, you're my friend and I care about you. How much money have you paid for these classes??? How much money went to them and not YOUR goals for yourself?? Any person who is trying to "help" other people that are not licensed professionals who did not go to school for this.... are not trying to help. This is a business deal. Everyone who is walking in those doors has a money sign above their heads.

Everything we have gone over in the past two days is in the first two chapters of a book I have a book called "you on top" written by a woman Kate White, whom works at Cosmo. She wrote it for other women to achieve their goals. I'm not trying to put anything down, but I just want to make you aware of my findings and research I have done on the "trainings". I started to become skeptical last night, so I decided to research further. As I was figuring out that this entire thing is based on money, it's a business I got curious. What was Ken's big creation 17 years ago? Why do they follow you to the bathroom if you need to use it during the class? Why are the people in the back taking notes? Don't they know change is everything???


History of NTL which Summit Education species it derives it's "education" from... pay close attention to the asterisks!
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National Training Laboratories One of the key institutions established for this purpose in the United States was the National Training Laboratories (NTL). ****Founded in 1947 by members of the Tavistock network in the United States and located originally on an estate in Bethel, Maine, NTL had as its explicit purpose the brainwashing of leaders of the government, educational institutions, and corporate bureaucracies in the Tavistock method, and then using these “leaders” to either themselves run Tavistock group sessions in their organizations or to hire other similarly trained group leaders to do the job. The “nuts and bolts” of the NTL operation revolves around the particular form of Tavistock degenerate psychology known as “group dynamics,” developed by German Tavistock operative Kurt Lewin, who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and whose students founded NTL.*****
*****In a Lewinite brainwashing group, a number of individuals from varying backgrounds and personalities, are manipulated by a “group leader” to form a “consensus” of opinion, achieving a new “group identity.” The key to the process is the creation of a controlled environment, in which stress is introduced (sometimes called dissonance) to crack an individual’s belief structure.*****Using the peer pressure of other group members, the individual is “cracked,” and a new personality emerges with new values. *****The degrading experience causes the person to deny that any change has taken place. In that way, an individual is brainwashed without the victim knowing what has taken place.*******
This method is the same, with some minor modification, used in all so-called “sensitivity groups” or “T-groups,” or in the more extreme rock-drug-sex counterculture form, “touchy-feely groups,” such as the kind popularized from the 1960s onward by the Esalen Institute, which was set up with the help of NTL.
From the mid-1950s onward, NTL put the majority of the nation’s corporate leaderships through such brainwashing programs, while running similar programs for the State Department, the Navy, the Department of Education, and other sections of the federal bureaucracy. There is no firm estimate of the number of Americans who have been put through this process in last 40 years at either NTL, or as it is now known the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, which is based in Rosslyn, Virginia, or its West Coast base of operations, the Western Training Laboratories in Group Development, or in various satellite institutions. The most reliable estimate is in the several millions.
One of the groups that went through the NTL mill in the 1950s was the leadership of the National Education Association, the largest organization of teachers in the United States. Thus, the NEA’s outlook has been “shaped” by Tavistock, through the NTL. In 1964, the NTL Institute became a direct part of the NEA, with the NTL setting up “group sessions” for all its affiliates. With funding from the Department of Education, the NTL Institute drafted the programs for the training of the nation’s primary and secondary school teachers, and has a hand as well in developing the content of educational “reforms,” including OBE.
Also known as the International Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences. This institute is a brainwashing center in artificial stress training whereby participants suddenly find themselves immersed in defending themselves against vicious accusations. NTL takes in the National Education Association, the largest teacher group in the United States. While officially decrying “racism”, it is interesting to note that NTL, working with NEA, produced a paper proposing education vouchers which would separate the hard-to-teach children from the brighter ones, and funding would be allocated according to the number of difficult children who would be separated from those who progressed at a normal rate. The proposal was not taken up.
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance & Commerce Founded by Eric Trist One of the “brain trusts” of Tavistock, Wharton has become one of the more important Tavistock in so far as “Behavioral Research” is concerned. Wharton attracts clients such as the U.S. Department of Labor—which teaches how to produce “cooked” statistics at the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates Incorporated. This method was very much in demand as we came to the close of 1991 with millions more out of work than was reflected in USDL statistics. Wharton’s ECONOMETRIC MODELING is used by every major Committee of 300 company in the United States, Western Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Institute for Social Research Among its clients are The Ford Foundation, U.S.Department of Defense, U.S.Postal Service and the U.S. Department of Justice. Among its studies are “The Human Meaning Of Social Change”, “Youth in Transition” and “How Americans View Their Mental Health”.
Institute For The Future This is not a typical Tavistock institution in that it is funded by the Ford Foundation, yet it draws its long-range forecasting from the mother of all think tanks. Institute for the Future projects what it believes to be changes that will be taking place in time frames of fifty years. So called “DELPHI PANELS” decide what is normal and what is not, and prepare position papers to “steer” government in the right direction to head off such groups as “people creating civil disorder.” (This could be patriotic groups demanding abolition of graduated taxes, or demanding that their right to bear arms is not infringed.) This institute recommends action such as liberalizing abortion laws, drug usage and that cars entering an urban area pay tolls, teaching birth control in public schools, requiring registration of firearms, making use of drugs a non-criminal offense, legalizing homosexuality, paying students for scholastic achievements, making zoning controls a preserve of the state, offering bonuses for family planning and last, but most frightening, a Pol Pot Cambodia-style proposal that new communities be established in rural areas, (concentration camp compounds). As can be observed, many of their goals have already been more than fully realized.

The NTL was derived from MARXISM in the 1930s...........

Kurt Lewin founded the National Training Laboratories, known as NTL, an American non-profit behavioral psychology center, in 1947. NTL became a major influence[1] in modern corporate training programs, and in particular developed the T-Group methodology that remains in place today. Lewin died early on in the project, which was continued by co-founders Ron Lippitt, Lee Bradford, and Ken Benne, among others.

Kurt Lewin......
Lewin had originally been involved with schools of behavioral psychology before changing directions in research and undertaking work with psychologists of the Gestalt school of psychology, including Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Kohler. Lewin often associated with the early Frankfurt School, originated by an influential group of largely Jewish Marxists at the Institute for Social Research in Germany. But when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 the Institute members had to disband, moving to England and then to America. In that year, he met with Eric Trist, of the London Tavistock Clinic. Trist was impressed with his theories and went on to use them in his studies on soldiers during the Second World War.
Lewin emigrated to the United States in August 1933 and became a naturalized citizen in 1940. Lewin worked at Cornell University and for the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station at the University of Iowa. Later, he went on to become director of the Center for Group Dynamics at MIT. While working at MIT in 1946, Lewin received a phone call from the Director of the Connecticut State Inter Racial Commission requesting help to find an effective way to combat religious and racial prejudices. He set up a workshop to conduct a 'change' experiment, which laid the foundations for what is now known as sensitivity training[2]. In 1947, this led to the establishment of the National Training Laboratories, at Bethel, Maine. Carl Rogers believed that sensitivity training is "perhaps the most significant social invention of this century."
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NOT actual people willing to teach.... based on money. It's a business... or cult. depending which way you look at it!

""They existed alongside but "outside the domains of academic psychology or psychiatry. Their measure of performance was consumer satisfaction and formal research was seldom pursued."[20]"""

e Finkelstein, P.; Wenegrat, B.; Yalom, I. (1982). "Large Group Awareness Training". Annual Review of Psychology (Calvin Perry Stone) 33: 515–539. doi:10.1146/annurev.ps.33.020182.002503.ISSN 0066-4308.


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THIS is from the US government statement.....
Here are some tips that consumers and business might find helpful.
1. Beware of any plan that makes exaggerated earnings claims, especially when there seems to be no real underlying product sales or investment profits. The plan could be a Ponzi scheme where money from later recruits pays off earlier ones. Eventually this program will collapse, causing substantial injury to most participants.
within weeks you can create your goals... a life coach can help too. and they're cheaper.
2. Beware of any plan that offers commissions for recruiting new distributors, particularly when there is no product involved or when there is a separate, up-front membership fee. At the same time, do not assume that the presence of a purported product or service removes all danger. The Commission has seen pyramids operating behind the apparent offer of investment opportunities, charity benefits, off-shore credit cards, jewelry, women's underwear, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and even electricity.
You have to pay a certain amount BEFORE learning the curriculum and what the classes are about. you are told you deserve this, you need this, this is a great thing, without any real honest answers. they tell the people that have been through the class to "tell your family and friends" they do this because strangers are skeptical. you say you did this to a friend or close relative, they know you and are more willing to support you. So they agree to help you and they trust what the friend or relative is saying about the class or "training". So there is less likely any research going on with them and they will just attend...
3. If a plan purports to sell a product or service, check to see whether its price is inflated, whether new members must buy costly inventory, or whether members make most "sales" to other members rather than the general public. If any of these conditions exist, the purported "sale" of the product or service may just mask a pyramid scheme that promotes an endless chain of recruiting and inventory loading.
4. Beware of any program that claims to have a secret plan, overseas connection or special relationship that is difficult to verify. Charles Ponzi claimed that he had a secret method of trading and redeeming millions of postal reply coupons. The real secret was that he stopped redeeming them. Likewise, CDI allegedly represented that it had the backing of a special overseas bank when no such relationship existed.
5. Beware of any plan that delays meeting its commitments while asking members to "keep the faith." Many pyramid schemes advertise that they are in the "pre-launch" stage, yet they never can and never do launch. By definition pyramid schemes can never fulfill their obligations to a majority of their participants. To survive, pyramids need to keep and attract as many members as possible. Thus, promoters try to appeal to a sense of community or solidarity, while chastising outsiders or skeptics. Often the government is the target of the pyramid's collective wrath, particularly when the scheme is about to be dismantled. Commission attorneys now know to expect picketers and a packed courtroom when they file suit to halt a pyramid scheme. Half of the pyramid's recruits may see themselves as victims of a scam that we took too long to stop; the other half may view themselves as victims of government meddling that ruined their chance to make millions. Government officials in Albania have also experienced this reaction in the recent past.
Trust the process... you are "training" training for??? oh that's right no one will say... not even the website.
6. Finally, beware of programs that attempt to capitalize on the public's interest in hi-tech or newly deregulated markets. Every investor fantasizes about becoming wealthy overnight, but in fact, most hi-tech ventures are risky and yield substantial profits only after years of hard work. Similarly, deregulated markets can offer substantial benefits to investors and consumers, but deregulation seldom means that "everything goes," that no rules apply, and that pyramid or Ponzi schemes are suddenly legitimate.THIS


http://forum.rickross.com/read.php?4,9299,51349 - This link takes you to a list of ALL the "classes" that are not taught by professionals or people that studied the human sociology or psychology. And I'm sorry to say, but there are some people in the class that desperately need a licensed professional to help them.

From the site.....

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March 07, 2010 03:29PM

righttofight
Date Added: 02/19/2003
Posts: 49
SAD

You know what? You're lucky. If you got out of this LGAT with your mind intact. Be glad that wife is gone. Anyone who falls for these LGATs are not people you want in your life.

They prey on people who want instant answers and are emotionally feeble. And WHO HAVE CASH! THEY WANT THAT CASH!"
(---This supports my point as a business transaction----)

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June 30, 2010 07:12AM

righttofight
Date Added: 02/19/2003
Posts: 49
Re: Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGAT's) millenium 3

By the way to Little Home.

Try to take care of yourself. Believe me I know you want to help, but it's almost futile unless you have parental custody or power of attorney or they want help.

These people are psychologically checked out. Or gone.

It's very tragic and sad to realize. Hitler was able to do the same thing with his party in the 30's. The Nazi party was just one big LGAT.

You can't do anything to change these people unless they really hit the rocks. I'm sorry.


(This puts a new twist on the "realm of possibilities".... Hitler did do the exact same thing that Ken does. Ask questions from a "neutral point of view" until you do or say something he doesn't like... or isn't conducive to the "training")

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Excerpts from wikipedia, ALL with cited works from books, magazines, etc. LEGIT information!


LGATs in comparison with cults

[edit]Singer
The American Psychological Association commissioned and subsequently decided not to endorse[33] and strongly criticised[34] a report by the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control, in which the so-called[by whom?] "anti-cult" psychologist Margaret Singer included large group awareness trainings as one example of what she called "coercive persuasion". The APA characterized Singer's hypotheses as "uninformed speculations based on skewed data"[34][verification needed] [The quoted text does not appear in the reference given.] and stated that the report "[i]n general" lacked "the scientific rigor and evenhanded critical approach necessary for APA imprimatur."[35] The APA also claimed that "the specific methods by which Drs. Singer and Benson have arrived at their conclusions have also been rejected by all serious scholars in the field."[36] Singer sued the APA, and lost on June 17, 1994[37] After the APA spurned the report, Singer remained in good standing in the psychological research community.[38] Singer reworked much of the report material into the book Cults in our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives (1995, second edition: 2003), which she co-authored with Janja Lalich.
Singer and Lalich stated that "large group awareness trainings" tend to last at least four days and usually five. Their book mentions Erhard Seminars Training and its derivatives such as the Forum, "Lifespring, Actualizations, MSIA/Insight and PSI Seminars.[39]
In her book, Singer differentiated between the usage of the terms cult and Large Group Awareness Training.[39][page needed] while pointing out some commonalities.[40][41]Elsewhere she groups the two phenomena together in that they both use a shared set of thought-reform techniques.[42] Singer also writes that employees taking part in a company-wide Large Group Awareness Training program not only complained about attempted religious conversion, but also objected to the specific techniques used.[23]
[edit]Langone
An article in Cult Observer by Michael Langone Ph.D. analysed Large Group Awareness Training.[3] Langone noted comparisons between Large Group Awareness Training and "brainwashing" and "cults"; and posited that many LGAT groups have an implied or even explicit religious nature.[3] Langone concluded by stating that he knew of no specific academic research which showed that Large Group Awareness Trainings have positive behavioral effects.[3] Langone cited a study which showed no difference between the Large Group Awareness Training test-subjects and the control group.[3][43]
[edit]ICSA
The International Cultic Studies Association has grouped some Large Group Awareness Training organizations together with research about them.[44]


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How do you know the training you are considering might be crossing the line into possible cult-like brainwashing?

Here are 10 warning signs to watch out for:

1. There is secrecy around the processes and techniques used. "It can't be described, it has to be experienced" is what you'll hear. "Don't tell anyone about it, we don't want you to spoil it for others". Bull. Demand program objectives, outline, and a complete description.

2. Programs built on the ideas and/or leadership of one charismatic person. I'm always skeptical about any training program that's referred to by someones name, i.e., "Tony Robbins training", "Covey training", "Kroning", etc...

3. You have nagging doubts about the facilitators, staff or program content. Something just doesn't "feel" right. They act a little too "enlightened".

4. You get challenging, defensive or discounting responses to your questions about the program.

5. You get vague or over-general promises of participant success.

6. "Hard-sell" tactics. Pressure on graduates to recruit more participants. In corporations, individuals and departments are often pressured to "get with the program", and seen as resistant if they choose not to participate.

7. An unfamiliar set of jargon are used to describe key concepts of the programs.

8. Program facilitators use physical and emotional techniques to get people to "open up and share" (i.e., break them down and humiliate them).

9. It's impossible to measure and evaluate the outcomes.

10. Any of the following techniques are used: fire walking, chanting, hypnosis, meditation, massage, yoga, biofeedback, bizarre relaxation techniques, mind control, visualization, overly aggressive "attack" confrontational techniques, or excessive hugging and crying.

Any one of these by themselves is probably harmless, but if you pick up on three of more, then buyer beware.


By Ken saying there is no right or wrong answer is total bullshit.... this is a psychological tactic to keep you thinking and double crossing over what you know to be true for YOU!

Also, REMEMBER AMWAY?? Yea same pyramid affect going on here. Let me guess.... they swear you to secrecy with the information and tell you what to say to prospective clients or "students"... then on the final days of the of learning or "training" they let you know how much you DESERVE it for you... and if you say you don't have the money they let you know you can manifest it to pay. It's up to you... blah blah blah. The TRAINING is training you to get more people in.

Pyramid Schemes

In the classic "pyramid" scheme, participants attempt to make money solely by recruiting new participants into the program. The hallmark of these schemes is the promise of sky-high returns in a short period of time for doing nothing other than handing over your money and getting others to do the same.
The fraudsters behind a pyramid scheme may go to great lengths to make the program look like a legitimate multi-level marketing program. But despite their claims to have legitimate products or services to sell, these fraudsters simply use money coming in from new recruits to pay off early stage investors. But eventually the pyramid will collapse. At some point the schemes get too big, the promoter cannot raise enough money from new investors to pay earlier investors, and many people lose their money. The chart below shows how pyramid schemes can become impossible to sustain:

For more information about pyramid schemes and fraudulent multi-level marketing programs, please visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website and read their brochures entitled Lotions and Potions: The Bottom Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans, Multi-Level Marketing Plans, and Profits in Pyramid Schemes? Don’t Bank on It!.
http://www.sec.gov/answers/pyramid.htm


LGAT is an acronym for "Large Group Awareness Training." An LGAT is a mechanism for promoting awareness change and rapid, thorough commitment to a cause or idea. LGATs tend to be brief but intense sessions of a few hours or days in which, ideally, participants adopt the message of the 'training' promptly and enthusiastically.
Some see the classic LGAT as utilizing peer pressure and group dynamics in a high-pressure sales environment that promotes uncritical psycho-babbling togetherness and thus markets nebulous memes, and as fostering a propensity to recruit new participants into a participation-oriented pyramid scheme under the guise of providing useful training.
Others see LGAT as a group mind methodology that can be used to accelerate training in specific skills. Improvisational comedy is an example of a skill that is, typically, taught via group-awareness training.
Historically, LGAT origins trace back, at least in part, to the encounter group movement of the 1960s.
Alleged LGATs include:
Context Associates
est/ Landmark Education
Exegesis
Garden Company
Insight
Lifespring
ManKind Project
Momentus
Training Phoenix 2000
PSI World
Silva Mind Control/Silva Method
Sterling Institute of Relationships
Whole Mind Learning (WML)
Life Training / Kairos Foundation
1 See Also

Pyramid scheme
Marketing
Multi-level marketingMulti-level marketing MLM (also called network marketing NM ) exhibits a business model which exemplifies direct marketing. Typically, independent business owners (IBOs) become associated with a parent company in a contractor-like relationship. IBOs recei
2 External reference and links

Fisher, J.D. et al. (1990). Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training: A Longitudinal Study of Psychosocial Effects. Springer-Verlag.
LGAT - or Large Group Awareness Training
http://caic.org.au/psyther/lgat/singer.htm
A University of Leeds research summary


This is found on http://www.economicexpert.com/a/LGAT.html.

This is a great link for more reading.....http://www.experiencefestival.com/large_group_awareness_training_lgat.
The pyramid schemes and LGAT, PSI and a ton of other orginizations all fall in reference to SCHEME or a synonym for
Main Entry: scheme Part of Speech: noun Definition: plot, maneuver to get result Synonyms: action, angle*, brainchild, cabal, conspiracy, covin, dodge*, frame-up, game, game plan, gimmick, hookup, hustle, hype*, intrigue, layout, machination, picture*, pitch, ploy, practice, proposition, put-up job, ruse, scenario, scene, setup, shift*, story, stratagem, subterfuge, tactics, trick*, twist* I think I can add SCAM into this.

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List of websites to check out to make your own conclusion.......

http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2009/06/beware-of-cult-like-leadership.html

http://www.skepdic.com/lgsap.html

http://myztifyan.pinksplanet.com/blog/category/methods/mind-control/ - scroll down to Nov 23, 2009, disregard the celebrity bullshit.

http://www.skepdic.com/lgsap.html - this also has credible resources

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=-uj7zi4p664C&oi=fnd&pg=PA169&dq=Hitler%27s+approach+to+manipulation&ots=Wd-3x_g67D&sig=BANCSetnLL90XMessiR9fVuNF60#v=onepage&q=Hitler%27s%20approach%20to%20manipulation&f=false - huge essay


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http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/647/647.F2d.402.80-2227.html Link to his "used to be a victim" story....


THis is to open your eyes to ALL THE POSSIBILTIES that Summit so encourages.... You might think I'm close minded and think what you will. But let me tell you... The tactics that are used that literally belittle a person to scare them into "keeping there word" are a double edged sword. Think about this.... Why would you pay someone to tell you you can follow your dreams. everything that's learned we already know. It's ALL up to the individual! If you want to start a business, you do the research meet with people who have done it too and ask questions. You want improve your relationship with your family, go to a professional and not someone who is Vice President of a fruit company to tell you how you are thinking is wrong.... The reason we are all unique is how we think and manifest ideas. It's nobodies fault but the indviduals if they can't get out of their slump. You don't need to go to a place and recruit others to do this. I will not be there tonight, as I am already doing my dreams and stopped looking back. I don't need to pay some business $1500.00 to tell me this! They use subtle but very persuasive manipulation to recruit and also why they do the things the "staff" or "volunteers" do. Follow you to the bathroom, etc. It's so you don't LEAVE! they want you to stay....

I did this so you can see the other side....Last night he used an extreme example to get his point across. Saying we can't blame BP or the government for the Oil spill, we can only blame yourselves. This was the message in such a round about way that everyone agreed. I'm sorry but you CANNOT bullshit a former bullshitter. Here are my comparisons then...... Moaist Regime, Nazi Regime, Stalin, North Korea... the list goes on forever. These people ALL used forms of manipulation to gain something. Power, control, money, etc.....


Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.[1] By advancing only the interests of the manipulator, often at the other's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive.
Social influence is not necessarily negative. For example, doctors can try to persuade patients to change unhealthy habits. Social influence is generally perceived to be harmless when it respects the right of the influenced to accept or reject it, and is not unduly coercive. Depending on the context and motivations, social influence may constitute underhanded manipulation.
According to Simon, successful psychological manipulation primarily involves:
manipulator concealing aggressive intentions and behaviors
manipulator knowing the psychological vulnerabilities of the victim to determine what tactics are likely to be the most effective.
manipulator having a sufficient level of ruthlessness to have no qualms about causing harm to the victim if necessary.
Consequently the manipulation is likely to be covert (relational aggressive or passive aggressive).[2]
[edit] How manipulators control their victims

[edit] According to Braiker

Braiker[1] identified the following basic ways that manipulators control their victims:
positive reinforcement - includes praise, superficial charm, superficial sympathy (crocodile tears), excessive apologizing; money, approval, gifts; attention, facial expressions such as a forced laugh or smile; public recognition
negative reinforcement - includes nagging, yelling, the silent treatment, intimidation, threats, swearing, emotional blackmail, the guilt trap, sulking, crying, and playing the victim
intermittent or partial reinforcement - Partial or intermittent negative reinforcement can create an effective climate of fear and doubt, for example in terrorist attacks. Partial or intermittent positive reinforcement can encourage the victim to persist - for example in most forms of gambling, the gambler is likely to win now and again but still lose money overall.
punishment
traumatic one-trial learning - using verbal abuse, explosive anger, or other intimidating behavior to establish dominance or superiority; even one incident of such behavior can condition or train victims to avoid upsetting, confronting or contradicting the manipulator.

Have you noticed the manipulation yet???? How much power Ken has over people....??? what are his credentials? This entire system works like a charm when you know how to do it correctly.... how many questions have you actually asked?? And if you do ask.... pay attention to how they are answered. Do you get a direct version? Do they beat around the bush like AMWAY???

Pay attention!! Did they tell you the history of how it began in the 70's and from LifeSpring?? and then persuade you to keep going. You owe yourself this oportunity. Don't question it.... and let me tell you. the people who don't question it and just move around like the drones because finally they are accepted into something because they get positive reinforcement such as clapping and smiles when you do something right. and if you do something wrong the end result is being subtly humiliated and degraded in front of others with a microphone... Hitler did this with the jews, but he made them wear stars..... And this is how the people stay. AND they pay money for it.... this is sort of manipulation which reeps benefits is known as

Machiavellian personality.

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Course overview

The Lifespring trainings generally involved a three-level program starting with a "Basic" discovery training, an "Advanced" breakthrough course, and a 3-month "Leadership Program" which taught the students how to implement what they learned from the training in their lives.
Studies commissioned by Lifespring done in the 1980s by researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF, including Lee Ross, Morton Lieberman, and Irvin Yalom, found that an overwhelming majority of participants in these trainings called them either "extremely valuable" or "valuable" (around 90%). Many participants of these trainings found them to be among the most profound experiences of their lives and claimed they were able to produce substantial results in their lives as a result of their participation. [10] Less than 2% found them to be "of no value".[10] Students were often eager to share their experiences in these trainings with family, friends, and co-workers, although they did not receive any compensation for "enrolling" others into the workshops.[10] However, another, independent study found that, "The merging, grandiosity, and identity confusion that has been encouraged and then exploited in the training order to control participants is now used to tie them to Vitality (Lifespring) in the future by enrolling them in new trainings and enlisting them as recruiters".[11] More than 400,000 people worldwide participated in these workshops.[12]
The training was composed of successive sessions on Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday day and night, Sunday day and night, a Tuesday night post-training session ten days after graduation, and a post-training interview. Evening sessions began at 6:30 pm and last until 11:30 or 12. Saturday started at 10 am and lasted until approximately midnight. Sunday started at 9 am and lasted until approximately midnight. Initial Trainings were usually held in the convention facilities of large, expensive hotels. A training was usually composed of 250-300 participants, many volunteers, several official staff, an assistant trainer, and a head trainer.[11]
The training itself consisted of a series of lectures and processes designed to show the participants how they were holding themselves back in their lives. Many complained that they felt harangued, embarrassed, or humiliated by the trainer during the trainings. Additionally, the trainer used many English words in a manner that was different than their usual meaning. "Commitment," for instance, was defined as "the willingness to do whatever it takes." "Conclusion" was defined as a belief. Also, words like "responsibility," "space," "surrender," "experience," "trust," "consideration," "unreasonable," "righteous" "totally participate," "from your head," "openness," "letting go" were redefined or used so as to assign them a new meaning.[11]
By the conclusion of the training, the trainer and volunteers attempted to recruit participants for subsequent, advanced trainings, as well as encouraging them to bring guests to their post training. Participants have quoted them as saying, "Share what you have found with your friends. I want each person here to bring friends to a guest event and to the post-training. Don't keep this to yourselves. Allow them to do the training by sharing with them." Many felt pressured by this.[11]
At the post training several days later, guests of participants were brought to another room, and encouraged to join. The participants themselves were encouraged once again to participate in future trainings. Participants were instructed to hold hands in a circle, and then instructed to go back to the guest event to "support your friends" (e.g.: encourage their friends to enroll in the training).[11]
The book Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training made comparisons between Lifespring and Werner Erhard's Est training[13].
Lifespring has been characterized as a form of "Large Group Awareness Training" in several sources.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][13][6]
Lawsuits

Lawsuits were filed against Lifespring for charges ranging from involuntary servitude to wrongful death. The suits often claimed that the trainings place participants under extreme psychological stress in order to elicit change. Lifespring was ordered to pay money to participants who required psychiatric hospitalization and to family members of suicides [4].
http://www.uia.net/~messiah7/brk_mythof10.htm - not sure if vallid but included anyways until i can do further research!
Critical viewpoints

In 1980, ABC's 20/20 aired an investigative report about Lifespring. They interviewed cult expert Dr. John Gordon Clark of Harvard Medical School, who said the group practiced mind control and brainwashing. In 1990 KARE-TV (Channel 11) ran a segment called "Mind Games?" that Lifespring claimed was deceptive and sensationalized. (The Minnesota News Council rejected the company's claim.)
The Skeptic a newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics, reported in 1989 on criticism from a participant that was a staff volunteer until becoming disgruntled with the organization[3]. This former staff volunteer said that workshops were too stressful and disruptive, and that the program was "an urban cult" [3].
One prominent critic of Lifespring is Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Mrs. Thomas asserted in an interview with The Washington Post that she chose to seek counseling after her decision to stop participating in Lifespring. In order to avoid phone calls from fellow Lifespring members, urging her to remain in the course, she chose to hide in another part of the United States. One explanation for the criticisms and actions taken by roughly just 8% of all Lifespring graduates comes from clinical psychologist and Lifespring graduate Bronson Levin. Levin said, "people who are not prepared for the intense emotional experience of Lifespring or who have hidden traumas tend to become overwhelmed as childhood memories come thundering back to them during training." Virginia Thomas went on to speak on panels and organized anti-cult workshops for congressional staffers in 1986 and 1988. [2]
Lifespring awareness groups claim that participants are asked to enroll family, friends, etc., in the workshops and to enroll in additional courses.
In 1993, Lutheran Reverend Dr. Richard L. Dowhower, conducted a survey of clergy attitudes toward other groups that they have labeled as cults. The 53 respondents were from the Washington, DC area and included 43 Lutheran clergy and seminarians, one Roman Catholic and one Jewish clergyman, and an Evangelical minister. The response chart indicates twenty eight (28) responses to "The cults I am most concerned about are:", with the answer "Scientology, est/Forum, and Lifespring". [25]. Dr. Dowhower was an advisor of the American Family Foundation, which published the Cult Observer[25].
Lifespring based Spinoffs

While trainings continued until the mid-nineties in certain parts of the country, the lawsuits and the bad press crippled the company. One Lifespring follower, Sue Hawkes , started a similar program, called Vistar, but it was unsuccessful. Lifespring training, once offered under a unified corporate umbrella, now appears in several forms world-wide delivered by differently-named companies. Some of these companies offering the training programs once offered by or based on Lifespring include Momentus; Insight Seminars; Resource Realizations; The Great Life Foundation, Visionworks; The Impact Trainings; Harmony Institute; Spectrum Trainings; Phoenix2000, Vistar/Serendipidity; Summit Workshops (later The Summit Organization, both founded by Paul Larsen and operating out of California in the 1980s); Personal Dynamics; Choice Center in Las Vegas; Millennium 3; Asia Works; Argentina Works; Chile Works; MexWorks; Life Learning Ecuador; Perú LifeSymphony; WorldWorks; Personal Development Centers, LLC; Essential Education; Rising Star Communications; TLC - The Living Course; Humanus Institute; Mommentum; Impacto Vital; Accelerate Trainings. [27] The Lifespring program was adapted for Russia and is known as Leadership Academy or Sinton. The new religious movement called Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness has been referred to as an "offshoot" of Lifespring.[28]
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So take matters into your own hands. Research something. Think for yourself. Something does not sit right with me with the "training" as i have explained before.... my intuition is putting up a red flag. and it's waving VERY HIGH. So that's why i researched. and have found enough to support my own red flag intuition theory. I don't blame you ******. I still care about you....! But I will not be exploited to some major "good". I have already been reaching my goals. I wont be there tonight, but perhaps tomorrow... just to see whats going on... maybe share a thought or two... not sure. But do some research and question those of "higher authority".

I care about you and dont see you as a dollar sign!