Landmark Forum

To add to my above comment - What I have seen over several years of working with Landmark's programs is that the people with the least 'emotional baggage' simply jump forward faster, while those with 'issues' will work their way through them using the methods presented in the Landmark Forum (LF). With sometimes seemingly miraculous speed, major issues literally transform and disappear, for ever, in moments, where typically analysts and therapists would take 6 months or more to achieve the same result.
Landmark is in 22 countries and 6 languages. The millionth participant took the Landmark Forum about 18 months ago now. The organisation, to my knowledge, has never paid for media advertising. All the people who enrol into the course do so following a personal invitation or referral. No one is ever on any kind of commission. The directors have never taken any bonus or other hand outs as it remains a non-profit making organization, preferring instead to keep the course price right down than build up profits.
There is no 'cult of personality' with Landmark. Indeed all the trainers actively discourage being placed on any kind of pedestal. A 'cult' typically is something that tends to take away your freedom. This weeked educational course in most if not all cases, will increase the level of freedom with which you experience life.
People register having been enrolled by friends and colleagues mostly out of who that person is being after they have taken the course. People sense something about them and want to know more.
I had a party once and a friend was able to point to all the LF graduates in the room (about a third of the room) even though she had not herself done the course. In my experience, there is often a lightness and relaxed sense of certainty about life with LF graduates.
The best way of gauging whether LF is for you, I suggest, is to call them up and have a chat with someone in your nearest local centre. You will find the address and phone number on the site landmarkeducation.com. Whoever you talk to almost certainly will not try to 'sell' you the Landmark Forum. You know what is best for you. You will be given the opportunity to choose if it is for you. It is important to Landmark Education that you not only get the opportunity to choose, but also that you are satisfied with the process that led to your choice.
It's good to talk, so give them a call!

I found that many of the primary elements of a cult are the things that friends and corporate HR departments try to force on you.

* Conform to the will of the group

* Worry more about what others think than what you think

and so on

I found the exact opposite in this environment.

There are people out there who would question if the sky is blue just because one of these programs says it is. Contrarians by nature. They'll seek to insult anything that doesn't conform to their view of the world. I learned long before going through this program that my life is better off leaving these people in the dust.