Over the years I have attended many many courses, in the UK, the USA and Canada. There are few that our truly outstanding. The few that are are worth recommending - because attendance at any of them is pretty well guaranteed to be a life changing experience!!
I have also included a couple of truly outstanding places to go which hold these programmes. The places make taking pretty well any course they do a truly wonderful experience, because the locations are so spectacular.
1. THE LANDMARK FORUM
Landmark Education http://www.landmarkeducation.com is the world's largest training company and runs a 3 day course called the Landmark Forum which is likely to be life changing. In 3 very long days you will discover aspects of life and how you see it, which have never occurred to you before. They have over a hundred offices around the world and run the courses in 22 countries in 6 languages.
I went on it at 56 years old, largely by accident. i was a Psychotherapist with 18 years in therapy, I had practised for twelve years. I had run a communications company for 17 years. I thought I had a a pretty good idea how the world worked. I was entirely wrong. It changed my life, my attitudes, my relationships, my outlook. Since that time I have got over 60 other people to attend including nearly all members of my family and it has had similar effects for them.
Only two people of those sixty have been anything other than thrilled by the outcome.
I have met the President of Landmark Harry Rosenberg on a number of occasions. He is a man of the highest integrity. It is an outstanding organisation with truly remarkable course leaders. It is not perfect! but no company is.
Here are some direct quotes from Newspaper articles
“Landmark Education is becoming a
global brand name with [52] offices in [21] countries, and
almost [796,000] people having taken The Landmark
Forum!”
See
Time Magazine
Excerpt
“If you want a life that
is extraordinary and are committed to being all you can be,
do The Landmark Forum. I hate to sound like an
advertising pitch, but any description of The Landmark
Forum will fall far short of doing it justice.”
See
The Landmark
Forum
Sydney Tribune
"Second
Only to SpaceTravel"
Top100expo.com ranks The Landmark Forum #2 on its Top100
Adventures list, calling it an extraordinary and unprecedented
adventure.
26 Things I have learned from Landmark
courses over the last four years which have each made a
tangible and measurable difference to my life.
1. A whole variety of new ways of listening. I listen
better and in whole variety of different ways.
2. The value of being 'really great' with other people. I
try and remember to be more like this more often and
occasionally I am!
3. How the world is created through language. I create my
own world as I speak and am aware of it each time I speak.
4. To complete a number of issues from my past. I have
completed a number of unfinished issues and freed up my
future.
5. To understand the importance of 'completion'. I have
helped others complete things for them.
6. An entirely new level of honesty and integrity. I have
cleared up past misdemeanors and set a new standard for my
integrity.
7. Not to be attached to results. I can do anything with
total commitment without being in the least concerned about
the outcome.
8. How to turn complaints into projects. I now do this
successfully.
9. The difference between events and stories. I use daily
to clarify things.
10. How often we all make others wrong and how to avoid it.
I do it daily and am aware I do it. I do it less every day.
11. To invent a new possibility every day. I do this daily
and I live out what I invent.
12. To raise my sights on what is achievable. I have done
through trying to get the Forum involved in the Northern
Ireland Peace Process and in helping Christchurch Council
to aim to become the best in the country.
13. That in practice I can achieve far more than I thought
I could. I have converted Christchurch Council from an
enemy to a friend. I took up skiing again after a five year
absence.
14. To let go of my fears - particularly about money. I
have done this.
15. New ways of achieving my objectives. I have learned new
techniques of working from the future backwards which I am
putting into practice.
16. That you only exist in the world to the extent you are
listened to. I am aware how important it is to express
things in a way people can hear.
17. To be far more self expressive and share myself more. I
am much more outward going than I was and more friendly
with friends and strangers.
18. Not to be significant/important. I am aware of this all
the time.
19. How I can recategorise my thinking and make chores
exciting. I have done so - dusting is exciting!
20. How to coach other people more effectively. I do this
with friends and children when necessary and mutually
agreed - (and they coach me!)
21. To be present. I am present far more of the time than I
ever used to be.
22. To take more care of my appearance. I had not realised
how I had become neglectful of it and I have now changed
that laxity.
23. To allow others to make their own decisions without
pressure. I can offer others opportunities and
possibilities and accept their choices without upset or
difficulty (which was not how I used to be!)
24. To see that life is empty and meaningless and it's
empty and meaningless that it's empty and meaningless. I
realise that meanings I attach to things are just my
meanings and that intrinsically things I used to think were
really significant are not. This has resulted in a less
stressed more relaxed life.
25. To focus on actions and results. I have been far less
in my head and more in action in all areas of my life
accomplishing much more.
26. To be more loving and understanding. Our family has
become closer and more open with each other. Things are
said constructively and differences settled in a fraction
of the time they used to be. I have reconnected with a
number of friends I had lost contact with, some for many
years.
LP 2003