Course Content
The Landmark Forum takes place over three consecutive days and an evening session (generally Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday evening.) Each full day begins at 9:00 a.m. and typically ends at approximately 10:00 p.m. Breaks are approximately every 2–3 hours, with a 90-minute dinner break. The evening session generally runs from 7:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. Course size varies between 75 to 250 people. Rules are set up at the beginning of the program, such as strongly encouraging participants not to miss any part of the program. Attendees are also urged to be “coachable” and not just be observers during the course. The program is arranged as a discussion where the course leader presents certain ideas and the course participants engage in voluntary sharing with the course leader to discuss how those ideas apply to their own life. Ideas presented, asserted and discussed include the following:
- There is a big difference between what actually happened in a person’s life and the meaning or interpretation they made up about it
- People pursue an imaginary someday of satisfaction
- Human behavior is governed by a need to look good
- People create their own meaning to life – none is inherent in the world
- People have “rackets”, which are persistent complaints that give rise to fixed ways of being
- People can “transform” by simply declaring a new way of being instead of trying to change themselves in comparison to the past
- Course participants are encouraged to call people they know during the course who they are incomplete with and either be in communication with the other person or be responsible for their own behavior.
- The Tuesday evening involves a presentation at which course attendees bring other people to learn about and voluntarily register for an upcoming Landmark Forum.
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