List of Large Group Awareness Training organizations
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The methods, courses and/or techniques of the organizations listed here have been identified with Large-group awareness training by reliable sources, or the organizations identify themselves with large-group awareness training.
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- Actualizations (Stewart Emery)
- Alpha Seminars
- Arica SchoolArica SchoolThe Arica School, also known as the Arica Institute or simply as Arica, is a human potential movement group founded in 1968 by Bolivian-born philosopher Oscar Ichazo ....
(Oscar IchazoOscar IchazoOscar Ichazo is the Bolivian-born founder of the Arica School, which he established in 1968.Ichazo's Enneagram of Personality theories are part of a larger body of teaching that he terms Protoanalysis...
) - Avatar Course (Harry Palmer)
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- Dimensional Mind Approach
- Direct Centering (Gavin Barnes, aka Bayard Hora Associates, aka The Course, aka Naexus)
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- Landmark EducationLandmark EducationLandmark Education LLC is a personal training and development company which offers educational programs in approximately 115 locations in more than 20 countries worldwide....
- Leadership DynamicsLeadership DynamicsLeadership Dynamics, also known as Leadership Dynamics Institute , was a private, for-profit company, owned by William Penn Patrick. The company focused on executive training, personal development and self-improvement...
(William Penn PatrickWilliam Penn PatrickWilliam Penn Patrick was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the owner of Holiday Magic, Leadership Dynamics, and Mind Dynamics. Patrick was a proponent of the sour grapes philosophy, and has been widely quoted as stating: "Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no...
) - Life Dynamics
- LifespringLifespringLifespring was a for-profit private company, founded in 1974. The company promoted itself through books and word of mouth advertising. By 1989, officials stated that over 300,000 people had enrolled in the company's seminars...
(John Hanley) - Lifestream Seminars (James Roswell Quinn)
- Life Training / Kairos Foundation (W. R. Whitten and K. B. Brown)
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- Mind DynamicsMind DynamicsMind Dynamics was a seminar company, founded by Alexander Everett in Texas in 1968. Mind Dynamics later led to two other companies, est and Lifespring....
(Alexander EverettAlexander EverettAlexander Everett was a British self-improvement and personal development consultant. He was the founder of the company Mind Dynamics, and author of the motivational books The Genius Within You and Inward Bound...
) - Movement of Spiritual Inner AwarenessMovement of Spiritual Inner AwarenessThe Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness is a 501 non-profit religious corporation, incorporated in California on June 25, 1971. Before incorporation, the group was founded in California in 1968 by John-Roger...
(MSIA), (Roger Delano HinkinsRoger Delano HinkinsRoger Delano Hinkins , known and published as John-Roger, is an American author, public speaker, and founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness , as well as several other New Age spiritual and self-help organizations.-Early life and education:Hinkins was born on September 24, 1934, and...
) - Millionaire Mind (See: Peak Potentials Training)
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- Pathwork
- Personal Dynamics
- PSI SeminarsPSI SeminarsPSI Seminars is a for-profit private company which offers Large Group Awareness Training courses. PSI was founded in 1973 by Thomas Willhite and Jane Willhite and the company is presently based out of Clearlake Oaks, California-Courses:...
(Thomas D. Wilhite) - Peak Potentials Training (T. Harv EkerT. Harv EkerT. Harv Eker is a motivational speaker and touring lecturer best known for his bestselling book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind published by HarperCollins and his seminar company, Peak Potentials Training...
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- Silva MethodSilva MethodThe Silva Method is the name given to a self help program developed by José Silva, which claims to increase an individual's IQ and sense of personal well-being through relaxation and by developing their higher brain functions...
(formerly Silva Mind Control) (José SilvaJosé Silva (parapsychologist)José Silva was an American self-taught parapsychologist and author of the "Silva Method" and the "Silva UltraMind ESP System", intended to help people increase their IQ, develop psychic skills, and to develop the ability to heal both themselves and others remotely, using forces unknown to...
) - Sterling Institute of RelationshipSterling Institute of RelationshipThe Sterling Institute of Relationship is a for-profit corporation and counseling business run by A. Justin Sterling since 1979. Focusing on heterosexual relationships through intensive, multi-hour trainings, male and female participants attend separate trainings. The company is based in Oakland,...
(Arthur Kasarjian)
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- Werner Erhard and AssociatesWerner Erhard and AssociatesWerner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A or as WEA, operated as a commercial entity from February 1981 until early 1991. It replaced Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. as the vehicle for marketing, selling and imparting the content of the est training, and offered what some people refer to as...
(Werner ErhardWerner ErhardWerner Hans Erhard is an author of transformational models and applications for individuals, groups, and organizations...
) - Worldworks
External links
- Intruding into the Workplace, Margaret SingerMargaret SingerDr. Margaret Thaler Singer, was a clinical psychologist and a part-time Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S....
, excerpted from Cults in Our MidstCults in Our Midst (book)Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives is a nonfiction psychology book on cults, by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., with a foreword by Robert Jay Lifton. The book was published by Jossey-Bass in 1996 in hardcover format...
, (1995) - List of Training Programs Considered to be LGATs, Polaski, Mary., 2000.
- Context Training