Talk about how it came up and how its improved your life/health for having done so

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    15 days ago

    I am well aware this won’t a popular answer.

    I am also well aware of all the negative aspects of what I’m about to talk about.

    I am also well aware of the follow on hard-sell-to-vulnerable-people problems that happens here. I felt under immense pressure to “buy more”, resisted and never heard back from them again.

    But…

    Attending the Landmark Forum was absolutely the biggest, long-term, positive thing I’ve ever done.

    So many positive things followed on from that. In a long weekend, I genuinely changed who I was, towards something that was much more fulfilled, much more true to myself and with much greater self-worth.

    I would not recommend it to anyone else. I learnt this the hard way, because I DID recommend it to someone else and they decided to leave their wife afterwards. I know that this is likely to have happened without my involvement but I still feel immensely awful about it. I should have kept my mouth shut.

    Don’t do the Landmark Forum.

    But for me, it was the most positive thing I’ve ever done.

    • flubba86@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I’m also a landmark graduate, and I can confirm it is a life changing experience.

      Doing the forum allowed me to realise I have so much wasted potential, I didn’t have to be working minimum wage repairing laptops at the local computer store, I enrolled at University in a IT degree with the goal to be a software engineer. Doing the forum gave me the confidence to tell my boss I’m quitting and going to be a full time student and how that’s a good thing for him. The forum gave me the confidence to talk honestly with my wife about what I want from our marriage, instead of me constantly trying to appease her wants. It caused me to have a real, meaningful, deep conversation with my mother, for the first time in 20 years. I was able to tell her frankly that her narcissistic tendencies in my formative years caused me to suffer from debilitating chronic anxiety in my 20s (my sister too), but it’s okay because she did the best she could, and I’m getting it treated.

      I went on to do the Self-Expression and Leadership course, and later the Advanced course. My wife did the same. I eventually stopped because of the endless and relentless hard-sell routines to get all your friends and family to come and sign up. They have to realise that’s off-putting to most people, but it’s their only marketing avenue so it must work reasonably well.