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Landmark Education

File:Landmark Education logo2.jpg
Company type	Private LLC
Industry	self-help, self-improvement, personal development, management consulting, continuing education
Founded	January 1991
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people	Harry Rosenberg: Director; CEO Mick Leavitt: President Steven Zaffron: Director; CEO, The Vanto Group Art Schreiber: General Counsel; Chairman, BOD; Director Joan Rosenberg: Vice President, Centers Division; Director Nancy Zapolski: Vice President, Course Development
Products	The Landmark Forum, associated coursework
Revenue	USD$90 million (2007)
Number of employees	450+ employees; 800 trained leaders, some of whom volunteer their time;
Subsidiaries	The Vanto Group (formerly Landmark Education Business Development or LEBD, from 1993-2007) Landmark Education International, Inc. Tekniko Licensing Corporation Rancord Company, Ltd.
Website	Landmark Education homepage

Landmark Education LLC (LE) is a personal training and development company which offers educational programs in approximately 115 locations in more than 20 countries worldwide, including major cities such as London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sydney, and Toronto.

An employee-owned, private company, it has its headquarters in San Francisco, California. Landmark Education delivers its courses primarily to individuals in a group setting. The company's standard introductory course is The Landmark Forum.

Landmark Education had its origins in the purchase of the intellectual property of Werner Erhard, who founded the 70's phenomenon of est. Since its founding in 1991, Landmark Education has developed other courses. Its subsidiary the Vanto Group (formerly Landmark Education Business Development, or LEBD, from 1993-2007), markets and delivers training and consulting to organizations.

Some former participants and observers have criticized the company's sales/marketing techniques and treatment of seminar participants.

Corporation

Landmark Education LLC operates as an employee-owned for-profit private company. According to Landmark Education's fact sheet, its employees own all the stock of the corporation, with no individual holding more than 3%. The company states that it operates in such a way as to invest its surpluses into making its programs, initiatives, and services more widely available.

As of 2005, Landmark Education stated that they have 200,000 participants in all of their courses annually with 70,000 to 80,000 people participating in the Landmark Forum. Over one million people have taken part in Landmark Education's introductory program, the Landmark Forum, since 1991. Landmark Education reported revenues of $70 million $76 million in as of 2005.

History

Landmark Education, known from May 7, 1991 to February 26, 2003 as "Landmark Education Corporation (LEC)", purchased certain rights to a presentation known as The Forum from Werner Erhard and Associates. Since then, the name of the presentation has been changed to "The Landmark Forum" and the content has been revised. The group of people who purchased the rights registered themselves initially as Transnational Education, as The Centers Network, and (in Japan) as Rancord Company, Ltd.. Incorporation as "Landmark Education Corporation" (LEC) took place later in 1991. "Landmark Education International, Inc.", the first Landmark name incorporated in the State of California, was filed on June 22, 1987 with Arthur Schreiber named as Agent for Service of Process. In February 2003, Landmark Education LLC succeeded LEC.

The coursework and pedagogy of WEA evolved from est/Erhard Seminars Training, founded by Werner Erhard in 1971. According to Landmark Education, Erhard consults from time to time with its "Research and Design team". Erhard's younger brother (Harry Rosenberg) works as Landmark Education's Chief Executive Officer, and their sister (Joan Rosenberg) serves as the Vice President of Landmark Education's Centers Division.

According to statements made by Landmark Education CEO Harry Rosenberg in 2001:

...Erhard kept the Mexican and Japanese branches of the operation... Last year , Landmark had revenues of $58 million, and ... the company has bought outright Erhard's license and his rights to Japan and Mexico.

The prior president and registered agent of Werner Erhard and Associates, Art Schreiber, functions as Landmark Education's General Counsel and Chairman of the Landmark Education Board of Directors. Schreiber also functioned as Werner Erhard's attorney.

The Vanto Group

The Vanto Group, founded in 1993 as "Landmark Education Business Development" (LEBD), utilizes the techniques of Landmark Education in providing consulting services to various companies. The University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business carried out a case study in 1998 into the work of LEBD. The report concluded that the set of interventions in the organization produced a 50% improvement in safety, a 15% to 20% reduction in key benchmark costs, a 50% increase in return on capital, and a 20% increase in raw steel production. LEBD became the Vanto Group in 2007.

Tekniko, Inc.

Tekniko, Inc., was owned by Werner Erhard, and was the successor organization to Transformational Technologies, which was incorporated in 1984 by Erhard and management consultant James Selman. Tekniko Licencing Corporation, a California corporation owned by Terry M. Giles, later acquired this technology. In 2001 Landmark Education formed Tekniko Licensing Corporation, a Nevada corporation, which purchased Tekniko Technology from Giles' company. Since that time, the Vanto Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Landmark Education, has used Tekniko to license the "Tekniko methodology and intellectual property to a wide variety of corporations."

Course Content

The Landmark Forum program takes place over the course of a Friday, Saturday, Sunday and a Tuesday Evening. Hours are from 9am to 10pm each of the first three days, and three hours of the evening on the final night. About 150 people take part in each course. 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 “being right about” or giving excuses for one’s own actions

• 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 upset with and either forgive the other person or apologize for their own behavior.

• The Tuesday evening involves a sales presentation at which course attendees bring other people to learn about and sign up for The Landmark Forum.

Characterization as religious movement

In the 1997 book Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies, author Dinesh Bhugra lists the Landmark Forum as being "among the better-known" of the new religious movements. Religious scholar George D. Chryssides analyzes the religious nature of Landmark Forum in his 1999 book Exploring New Religions, and notes: "...several books, both anti-cult and academic, now classify est/Landmark and other Human Potential groups as examples of new religions." Chryssides lists the Landmark Education Corporation within his 2006 work The A to Z of New Religious Movements, however he comments: "Like est, Forum seminars are not regarded as religious, although some participants regard their experiences as spiritual and use them to bring out the god who resides within the self." Chryssides concludes: "est and Landmark may have some of the attributes typically associated with religion, but it is doubtful whether they should be accorded full status as religious organizations. In a 2002 article in Cultic Studies Review, religious scholars Robert Kronberg and Kristina Lindebjerg comment: "Landmark seems to be a scientific substitute for the need for religious answers to life's fundamental questions."

Writing in his 2003 work Social Theory and Religion, author James A. Beckford comments that scholars placed the organization within the class of "post-countercultural religious movements". An entry on "Landmark Forum (est)" is listed within the 2004 compilation work New Religions: A Guide, edited by Christopher Partridge. Elizabeth Puttick cites the Landmark Education position that "They are also adamant that Landmark Forum is not a religious movement, or a sect of any kind, but that they are solely an educational foundation. Puttick notes "Both est and Landmark Forum could be classified as LGATs (large group awareness trainings)..." In her 2005 work Researching New Religious Movements, author Elisabeth Arweck comments that Landmark Education and Scientology "do not immediately suggest religion ... but reveal ideological and religious elements on closer inspection. In the 2005 reference work Cults edited by James R. Lewis, there is an entry on "Erhard Seminars Training (est) and The Forum".

Two lawsuits have been filed by individuals asserting that their employers fired them for refusing to attend Landmark Education courses. Both lawsuits were based around claims of religious discrimination, claiming that their employers were forcing them to attend “religious events”. Both lawsuits were dismissed with prejudice.

Evaluations

Landmark Education makes extensive use of web-published and word-of-mouth testimonials from customers to portray its effectiveness, and supplements these with studies, surveys, and opinions. Independent third parties have carried out a limited amount of scientific research—not dependent on corporate funding—on Landmark Education.

Independent scientific studies and academic publications

A 2005 Israeli study appeared in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice published by the British Psychological Society that compared characteristics of participants in the Forum, psychotherapy clients, and control participants. Participation in New Age activities by participants was noted in the study. One aspect of the findings seemed to indicate that Forum participants who engaged concurrently in psychotherapy had a better locus of control than the other participants in the study.

Criticism and response

Some observers question whether and to what degree Landmark Education courses benefit participants. Others criticize the use of volunteers by Landmark Education; others highlight the connections with other groups and with Werner Erhard. Landmark has been criticized by some for being overzealous in encouraging people to participate in its courses.

According to Le Nouvel Observateur, the French office of Landmark Education closed in July 2004 after labor inspectors, following a site visit that noted the activities of volunteers, made a report of undeclared employment. In their 2002 book Cults, Religion, and Violence, authors David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton noted that Landmark Education is listed as "dangerous" by government commissions in Belgium and France, having been placed on the French Parliamentary list of "Sectes" (cults) in 1995 (Rapport fait au nom de la Commission d'enquête sur les sectes). Following a series of investigative articles in the national daily Dagens Nyheter and programs on the private TV channel TV4 Landmark Education also closed its offices in Sweden as of June 2004.

According to InformationWeek, the organization Cult Awareness and Information Centre lists the Landmark Forum among groups it refers to as "cults". The contention that the Forum is "cult-like" has been aired in at least half a dozen newspaper articles over the last decade. Landmark vehemently rejects the cult label and "freely threatens or pursues lawsuits against those who call it one."

Journalists Amelia Hill with The Observer and Karin Badt from The Huffington Post have witnessed the Landmark Forum and concluded that, in their view, it is not a cult. Hill wrote, "It is ... simple common sense delivered in an environment of startling intensity." Badt noted an emphasis on "'spreading the word' of the Landmark forum as a sign of the participants' 'integrity'" in recounting her personal experience of an introductory "Landmark Forum" course. Part of this theme included repeated comparisons between program participants and Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Badt regards the course's word-of-mouth marketing methodology and its considerable focus on proselytizing as "brainwashing". She concluded, "At the end of the day, I found the Forum innocuous. No cult, no radical religion: an inspiring, entertaining introduction of good solid techniques of self-reflection, with an appropriate emphasis on action and transformation (not change)."

Legal disputes

For details of litigation involving Landmark Education, see Landmark Education litigation. For details on non-litigation legal events, see Landmark Education and the law.

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72. Badt, Karin (2008-03-05). "Inside The Landmark Forum". The Huffington Post. HuffingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2009-08-11. The most criminal aspect of the Landmark Forum's insistence on its methodology is precisely that: its insistence on its methodology. I clocked two hours the first day devoted to 'spreading the word' of the Landmark forum as a sign of the participants' 'integrity.' If they had integrity, they would, like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi, take courage to spread the beliefs of the Landmark Forum to all their friends, enroll them in the program, get them to come to the famed Tuesday night ending ceremony for their free introductory session. I clocked four hours devoted to this subject on Saturday. I clocked the first three hours of the Sunday session to the subject: including suggestions to bring our children for special youth landmark forums geared to get them started early in the Landmark, at age fifteen (alone) or at age eight (if accompanied by a parent).
73. Badt, Karin (2008-03-05). "Inside The Landmark Forum". The Huffington Post. HuffingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2009-08-11. I questioned the odd apolitical bias of the program. Martin Luther King and Ghandi were not just victors of positive thinking: they had a radical political agenda to re-adjust political inequality. Their belief system was based in believing in something more than ourselves. Why were we being compared to Gandhi and King if we could stand up to our husbands and get a more successful career? concluded, per forma, with moving descriptions of Gandhi and King. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 275 (help)
74. Badt, Karin (2008-03-05). "Inside The Landmark Forum". The Huffington Post. HuffingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2009-08-11. Yes, they urge us to proselytize, which rather than a cult technique, might just be an unfortunate mistake in marketing strategy
75. Badt, Karin (2008-03-05). "Inside The Landmark Forum". The Huffington Post. HuffingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2009-08-11. Participants, having heard the argument drone in their ears for 9 hours in a period of 72, began to cheer and smile as they raised their hands to say they too had the courage to stand for the Forum. This was brainwashing. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 199 (help)

External links

• Landmark Education official website

• Misplaced Pages neutral point of view disputes from March 2008
• Misplaced Pages articles with possible conflicts of interest from October 2008
• Human Potential Movement
• Personal development
• Employee-owned companies of the United States
• The Hunger Project
• Large Group Awareness Training
• Companies based in San Francisco, California
• Self religions