Landmark Education and Landmark Forum: An Inside Look

“The possibility I am inventing for myself and my life is _________” You fill in the blank. What possibility do you see for yourself? Landmark Forum teaches the technology for producing new possibilities and breakthrough results. It teaches personal transformation as a way of living.


I just completed my first Landmark Forum presented by Landmark Education in San Jose, California, July 17, 18, 19 and evening of July 21, 2009. I was introduced to Landmark Forum by a friend who was completing the Landmark Forum last year and she called my wife and me and invited us to a free evening session to find out about the Landmark Forum.


Landmark Education does not use paid advertising and marketing to promote the Landmark Forum but relies on word of mouth advertising by the participants much like sharing about a movie or restaurant. The participants enthusiastically share what new possibilities they’ve created for themselves and invite guest to attend the final evening session of the Landmark Forum. Word of mouth advertising keeps the cost way down and now is a good time to take advantage of the low cost to attend for early enrollment in the programs. The drawback, I see in not having paid marketing, is a lot of people have never heard of Landmark Education or Landmark Forum and its benefits, but the low overhead and use of volunteers keeps the Landmark Forum affordable. Compared to the high cost of taking a weekend training of NLP from Richard Bandler’s organization, the Landmark Forum is a bargain.


During the Landmark Forum I experienced self examination. I examined what happened in my past and what “story” I tell about what happened. Over time the story I tell myself becomes “the way it is “. It becomes the reality I know. This limits what is possible in my life, and robs me of much joy and effectiveness. What I have discovered is when I am able to separate what happened from my story or interpretation, I discovered that what I considered already determined and established is just my story. Situations that are challenging are now open to change and I no longer have to let limiting beliefs keep me from creating new possibilities and I can achieve with new ease and enjoyment.


Many participants through out the Landmark Forum experienced breakthroughs and were encouraged to renew relationships that had been strained and to communicate more meaningfully with family and friends. In my opinion effective communications can increase the value that one brings to the market place as well. Participants were encouraged to take immediate action and to telephone and renew and improve relations during the breaks in Landmark Forum. Throughout the Landmark Forum participants would volunteer to speak at a microphone what the concepts meant and applied to their lives.


During the Landmark Forum certain words are given slightly different meanings or viewed differently. This jargon is used to explain the concepts. For example ”integrity” is highly emphasized. It means to be true to ones word; honesty, sound, to speak the truth, to do or not do what you say you will do. To me this is the morale meaning of the word. I believe that most of the participants had integrity in this morale sense of the word and people who do not, would not be interested in transpersonal transformation in the first place due to their lack of morality. Integrity is used in the Landmark Forum as William Shakespeare wrote …”to thine own self be true…” To live life to the fullest, not to lie to yourself by listening to your own negative self talk, your own limiting beliefs. The psychologist Abraham Maslow said to “self actualize”. I call it to “awaken” or to be “conscious” of your creative power. I am not going to rehash the entire Landmark Forum here in this blog post, what I just gave you should be sufficient to show how words can be distinguished to teach concepts of transformation. For more examples go to the Landmark Education link at the bottom of this article.


I have read some nonsense written by some bloggers calling the Landmark Forum a cult, or false religion, etc. The people of Landmark Education are not a cult as I previously stated the Landmark Forum encourages renewing relationships with family, not living in isolation away from family. All participants go back to their homes and there was no Kool Aid to drink. Although jargon is used to teach transformation (all subjects of study have their buzzwords to learn) in the Landmark Forum what is actually taught has been taught by psychologist, philosophers, life coaches, counselors, various religious leaders, etc. for several years now. Landmark Forum teaches these concepts in a compact long weekend and at a price at a lot lower then the thousands of dollars competitors charge.


For more information and to watch an interesting video about the Landmark Forum go to http://landmarkeducation.com/.