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The best news article to read if you’re thinking about doing The Forum…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/dec/14/ameliahill.theobserver

Doing the Landmark Forum (when I was 17) completely transformed my thinking and view on my life and everything in it. Like nothing you’ll ever do again. I want to do it again!

Definitely recommend the Advanced Course to do after the Forum though, it connects everything together and you just feel… reborn after it!

I’ve not done any Landmark courses since these two (4 years ago) but Landmark education has had a deep, subconscious impact on me and I am able to live powerfully without hardly realising.

I did the Landmark Forum last month and am currently enrolled in the Landmark Forum in Action Seminar Series. It was one of the hardest experiences of my life, but what I walked away with was invaluable. My entire outlook on life has changed. The voice in my head is quieter, I’m not as fearful, and I have a passion for life I have not had in years. The negative space I lived from has transformed into a place of opportunity, and things are changing for the better by the day.

I’ve been through years of depression and anxiety, therapy a few times, and nothing has helped as much as Landmark. We all know that life is what you make it, that you manifest your destiny, and that your words carry immense meaning, but I always struggled with how to actually implement this in my life. Landmark gave me the tools no one else had to live life the way I wanted. They taught me how to communicate correctly, not let life “happen” to me, and to go for whatever goal I have no matter what is holding me back.

Its still a struggle, and its hard work, but I have never been so confident in my life. If you are contemplating doing it, just do it. Don’t think of the reasons why you should or shouldn’t, or the obligations and challenges of daily life, just sign up. Good luck!

Jen

I did this Landmark Forum many years ago and it was something i wont ever forget. At times it was exciting, at times hilarious, at times sad. and it was extremely valuable. I really became aware that everyone is struggling with the same things in life, like trying to be happy in a crazy world. one man in my course told the story that his father killed his mother when he was growing up and that he’d been miserable and hateful ever since. he saw that it wsnt this terrible tragedy that was making him miserable all this time but the huge hatred he carried around for his father and by necessity, for the rest of the world. That guy gave up being hateful and when left he looked about 20 years younger.

That story has always stuck with me, because im clear that if that guy can be happy with what happened to him, then theres no reason i cant be happy no matter whats happening.

I did the Forum years ago because of my mother. Before I did this I had blamed my Mom for my parents getting divorced. In the course I saw things from her point of view for the first time—What it must be like for her as a single Mom with two kids. I ended up being much closer to my Mom, my Dad and my brother as a result. I would recommend it to anyone.

The other thing about the Landmark Forum that I found cool is that I came out of it wanting to provide something for other people for the first time in my life. I’d pretty much always been as selfish a person as there was. I got involved in charities and things like that for the first time ever and found it very rewarding. Theres a cool website out there about things that Landmark Education people have done thats worth checking out:

http://landmarkeducationnews.info

My neighbor brought me to an introduction of the Landmark Forum, and although I was curious I had no intention of taking it. By the end of the evening I found myself signing up for it.

It’s true what others have said here that the “Landmarkese” and the hard sell can be a turn off, but there’s a lot of good stuff here. It’s made a change for me just in being more open with people, clearing up some minor things with my parents, which has allowed me to really love and appreciate them in a way I hadn’t before (it’s almost a cliche that this happens for people, but yeah, it often does).

And a big change for me was looking at my tendency towards depression in a new way and taking more responsibility for it, which in turn has made me feel better – not all the time, of course, but it was a big “breakthrough,” as they say.

I was worried going in that my being a transvestite who runs a fetish website for a living might turn out to be an issue, but it really wasn’t much of one. Landmark certainly isn’t about morality.

Oh, also check out Buster McLeod’s post here on 43 things about the Forum (it’s probably over on the right under “People who’ve done this.” He really outlines everything in an excellent and succinct way.

the best education ever – not like any other

Be an informed consumer and read up on EST, Werner Erhard before considering the Landmark Forum. Landmark Education was investigated by the French Department of Labor, which ruled their volunteer unpaid laborers in the “assisting program” must be classified as employees. Within a short time later, Landmark Education pulled all their operations out of France. Some of this is discussed in the French documentary, “Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus.”

The “technology” of Landmark Forum was initially developed by Werner Erhard for his company EST / Erhard Seminars Training and later for Werner Erhard and Associates / The Forum. But Werner Erhard sold the “technology” to his employees shortly after a March 3, 1991 investigative piece by 60 Minutes which alleged he was physically and sexually abusive to family members.

Currently, Landmark Education is run by Werner Erhard’s friends and family. His brother Harry Rosenberg is the CEO, his at one time attorney Art Schreiber is General Counsel and Chairman of the Board of Directors, his sister Joan Rosenberg is on the Board of Directors, as is his longtime associate K. Laurel Scheaf.

Also a great book for background info is OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL, by Steven Pressman. I highly encourage anyone considering putting down money for this controversial course to read as much as you can, as well as seeking out as much audio/visual material as possible on the internet. There is certainly an abundance of freely available information on the history and background of this for-profit, privately owned company on the internet. Werner ErhardWerner Erhard

It is definitely worth doing if you are up to something big in life. It helps you take advantage of opportunities in your life even when you are scared. It is not that fear has dissapeared for me, it is just that my relationsihp to it as changed. I think that there are a lot of things that all of us want to have or do in our lives but we get scared and don’t take advantage of the opportunites when they are there usually only to regret not having done something when we had a chance.

I think the Landmark Forum is invaluable to people who are up to something in life.

After many years, there is now an online introduction to the Landmark Forum and it is definitely worth checking out if you ar considering the Landmark Forum.

www.landmarkforumintroduction.com

Doing the Landmark Forum is COMPLETELY worthwhile. I recommend it for everyone. It really did alter the direction of my life. I participate almost weekly with Landmark Education Seminars. The community is very powerful, and it is a joy to participate. It makes an impact on my life DAILY.