do the landmark forum

I have wanted to do the Landmark Forum for 15+ years. At 41 I am clear that I have filters in my life that hold me back from who I want to be and what I want to accompish. I need this transformation to move forward.

I’ve done est, the Forum, and many of their seminars and other courses since 1975. I am a licensed psychologist and recommend the Forum, not as therapy, but as extremely enlightening (as in you see things you didn’t see before when somebody turns the light on!). I know people who work for Landmark Education, including a Forum leader that my daughter once babysat for (long before she became a Forum leader). I can personally and professionally tell you that any “claims” you may read that Landmark is a cult, brainwashing, or harmful in any way are BS, and probably totally a result of someone who simply didn’t like the Forum (strongly, obviously) and who is now running a “racket” (Forumspeak for a complaint intended to make someone or something “wrong” and yourself “right” rather than to be helpful or change something in any way. I have done many workshops in the course of my personal and professional develpment, but have never done one I would recommend more highly than the Forum. And it only takes 3 days! However, like everything else, it is not for everybody; nor will it work for everybody. If you are someone who is interested in improving your effectiveness, ability to communicate, have better and more satisfying relationships, and be happier, and have a mind that is open enough to “try these ideas on” (as they suggest in the Forum), DO IT!! If you are looking for more information about the Forum, you probably heard about it from a friend or relative who strongly encouraged you to do it because of the value they got and think you will get. BELIEVE THEM!! It’s not necessarily easy to digest, but you will probably be glad you did it, as are about 95% of the people who have done it. (About 70% say it was one of the most important experiences of their lives!)

I completed The Landmark Forum in March, 2004. Since then my wife, daughter and several family members and friends have completed The Landmark Forum. We all had very positive experiences. Among many other positive outcomes, my wife, daughter and I now have relationships with each other I never dreamed were possible.

Others have posted that it is important to check things out before participating in any activity. I wholeheartedly agree; I did. This is a link to information I found. http://www.scooponlandmarkforum.com/ExpertOpinions/index.html

at 25, it allowed me to open a fresh page, and have the best relationship with my sister (we used to fight all the time) and brother (which i hardly knew).
love it!

at 25, it allowed me to open a fresh page, and have the best relationship with my sister (we used to fight all the time) and brother (which i hardly knew).
love it!

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