Techniques
Michael Langone wrote in Business and Society Review that Leadership Dynamics was one of the first "transformational trainings". The extreme form of human potential movement training led to a series of lawsuits for the company. This extreme training involved subjecting course participants to abusive practices such as beating, food and sleep deprivation, being placed inside of coffins, and degrading sexual acts.
Lawsuits against the company by former participants in the coursework alleged that students were sexually abused and tortured, including being placed in coffins or on crosses. Navarro and Navarro described the Leadership Dynamics training as utilizing a "harsh and hard hitting" form of group encounter therapy. The non-fiction book, The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled described some of these practices in great detail, and this was later made into a film, Circle of Power.
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