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By Carol Colenda,
Ph.D., Dr. Judith Reynolds and Anneke Ruijgh, MD.
What’s up with the media and Landmark
Education?
We
have found the media accounts of Landmark Education to
be fascinating. They tend not to be insightful, but
rather more anecdotal in nature and not based on real
facts. We have seen a significant number of great
articles that either profile
Landmark Education or people crediting
major accomplishments to what they have gotten out
of the programs. As is so often the case with popular
media these stories are passed over in favor of more
sensational story angles.
News sources continue to
propagate inaccurate and old information and seem never
to take into account that nearly one million people have
taken the programs and that numerous studies have shown
the value people have gotten out of those courses.
Landmark Education on Sacramento
Television
What other people say:
Negative stories about anyone or any company always seem
to be self-perpetuating. The media forms opinions and
offers these opinions to their constituents as facts or
original research, instead of clarifying that it is
only
what they have heard and often through a filter of
“gossip”. Sometimes the benefits people get out of
taking The Landmark Forum seem “too good to be true” to
people hearing about them – that seems to be an
invitation for the media to do what it can to find
something negative or disquieting to say.
However, I have been noticing more and more very
positive coverage of Landmark Education from around the
world. In the end, what I find most reliable in this, as
in most matters, is my own informed opinion and personal
experience.
The C-word
… Round about now the C-word is probably going through
your mind. And the answer, from someone who’s just been
there, is no,
Landmark is nothing like a cult.
The company is aware of previous accusations and rumour,
and dismisses them emphatically.
They would, of course. But what is compelling, is
commentary from, among others, Dr Raymond Fowler, former
CEO of the American Psychological Association, who said
that in his personal opinion: “The Landmark Forum is not
a cult or anything like a cult, and I do not see how any
reasonable, responsible person could say that it is.”
