Landmark Education and the Landmark Forum

One of the reasons I think that the Landmark Forum sometimes seems mysterious is that those of us who have taken Landmark Education courses do a poor job of explaining what actually happens during the programmes. We’re pretty good at explaining what we saw in the course and what we got out of it, but as for what is literally talked about in the course? Making a record of this isn’t the first thing on our minds, and often we don’t explain it well.

I recently read a blog by a man named Scott who was making a diary or record of what actually got covered on each day of the Landmark Forum. While it isn’t exactly how I would describe it, I think this post usefully demystifies the programmes. Here are some parts of what he says about the first day of the Landmark Forum. Scott, thank you for bringing this to my attention!

Landmark Forum: Conclusion of the first day

So, here is some more stuff that takes place on day one. In addition to learning how we currently listen to people, we also learn to separate what actually happened from what we think happened. Using the terms learned in the forum, separate the facts from the story. Believe it or not, this has helped me greatly in dealing with my anxiety. I would read something bad into everything that was said. I would worry about loosing my job, etc, etc. based on what I read into things. Now I take the words for what they actually say, without trying to put a different meaning to them. Now, it could mean that I would loose my job, but then again, I if I were to loose my job it would have happened whether I read to much into it or not; this way I do not go around worrying about it every moment of every day, and I would deal with it if it happens.

Go to the site above and read the rest.