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Large-group awareness training The term large-group awareness training (LGAT) refers to activities—usually offered by groups with links to the human potential movement—which claim to increase self-awareness and to bring about desirable transformations in individuals' Person ...

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* Actualizations ( Stewart Emery) * Alpha Seminars * Altru Center *

Arica School Oscar Ichazo (July 24, 1931 – March 26, 2020) was a Bolivian philosopher and an advocate of integral theory. Following his early life in Bolivia, Ichazo was later principally based in Chile, where he founded the Arica School in 1968. He lived ...

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Oscar Ichazo Oscar Ichazo (July 24, 1931 – March 26, 2020) was a Bolivian philosopher and an advocate of integral theory. Following his early life in Bolivia, Ichazo was later principally based in Chile, where he founded the Arica School in 1968. He lived ...

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Atlas Project An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth. Advances in astronomy have also resulted in atlases of the celestial sphere or of other planets. Atlases have traditionally been ...

Avatar Course The Avatar Course, often simply called Avatar, is a series of LGAT self-development courses founded in 1986 by Harry Palmer and run by his privately held company, Star's Edge, Inc., which trains and licenses Avatar Masters (teachers) to deliver t ...

(Harry Palmer) * AsiaWorks * Ascension Leadership Academy

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Call of the Shofar Call of the Shofar was an organization based in Baltimore, US, focusing on personal and relational transformation. Call of the Shofar offers workshops assisting individuals to enhance their personal relationships. The organization's director is ...

(founded by Simcha Frischling) * Context International (previously Context Associated, founded by Randy Revell, who had worked with Mind Dynamics) * Contextuelles Coaching (Maria & Stephan Craemer) * Choices Personal Growth Seminar *Choice Center , url= https://choicecenter.com/,

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Direct Centering Direct may refer to: Mathematics * Directed set, in order theory * Direct limit of (pre), sheaves * Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces Computing * Direct access (disambiguation), a ...

(Gavin Barnes, aka Bayard Hora Associates, aka The Course, aka Naexus)

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Educo Seminar Tony Quinn (born 7 February 1946) is an Irish businessman, yoga entrepreneur, mind coach and cult leader who founded the Educo Cult. Background Quinn was born in Arbour Hill in inner-city Dublin. Quinn left school early and was a salesman for ...

Erhard Seminars Training Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. (marketed as est, though often encountered as EST or Est) was an organization founded by Werner Erhard in 1971 that offered a two-weekend (6-day, 60-hour) course known officially as "The est Standard Training". The ...

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Werner Erhard Werner Hans Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg; September 5, 1935) is an American lecturer known for founding est (offered from 1971 to 1984). In 1985, he replaced the est Training with a newly designed program, the Forum. Since 1991, the Forum ...

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Exegesis Exegesis ( ; from the Ancient Greek, Greek , from , "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation (philosophy), interpretation of a text. The term is traditionally applied to the interpretation of Bible, Biblical works. In modern us ...

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Gratitude Training Giving Tree Global

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Heartcore Leadership

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* Impact Training ( Hans & Sally Berger) * Insight Seminars (

John-Roger Hinkins John-Roger Hinkins (born Roger Delano Hinkins) (September 24, 1934 – October 22, 2014) was an American author, public speaker, and founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), as well as several other New Age, spirituality, spir ...

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Joey Klein Joey Klein is a Canadian actor and film director. He is most noted for his performance in the 2016 film '' We're Still Together'', for which he won the ACTRA Award for Best Actor from the ACTRA Awards chapter in Toronto and received a Prix Iris no ...

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Isha Foundation The Isha Foundation is a nonprofit, spiritual organisation that was founded in 1992 near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, by Sadhguru (Jagadish Vasudev). It hosts the Isha Yoga Centre, which offers yoga programs under the name Isha Yoga. The f ...

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Sadhguru Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev (born 3 September, 1957), also known as Sadhguru, is an Indian guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India. The foundation, established in 1992, operates an ashram and yoga centre that carries ...

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Landmark Worldwide Landmark Worldwide (known as Landmark Education before 2013), or simply Landmark, is an American employee-owned for-profit company that offers personal-development programs, with their most-known being the Landmark Forum. It is one of severa ...

(formerly Landmark Education) * Leadership Dynamics (

William Penn Patrick William Penn Patrick (March 31, 1930 – June 9, 1973) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and fraudster. He was the owner of Holiday Magic, Leadership Dynamics, and Mind Dynamics. Patrick was a proponent of the sour grapes philos ...

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Lifespring Lifespring was an American for-profit human potential organization founded in 1974 by John Hanley Sr., Robert White, Randy Revell, and Charlene Afremow. The organization encountered significant controversy in the 1970s and '80s, with various aca ...

(John Hanley) * Lifestream Seminars ( James Roswell Quinn) *

Life Training Life, also known as biota, refers to matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response ...

Kairos Foundation ''Kairos'' () is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. In modern Greek, ''kairos'' also means 'weather' or 'time'. It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for 'time'; the other being (). Whereas the latt ...

/ More to Life (W. R. Whitten and K. B. Brown) * Life Design Education (Daniel Paraszkay)

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* Mind Dynamics ( Alexander Everett)

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NXIVM NXIVM ( ) was a cult led by Keith Raniere, who is now a convicted Racketeering, racketeer and sex offender. NXIVM is also the name of the defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential an ...

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Keith Raniere Keith Allen Raniere ( ; born August 26, 1960) is an American cult leader who was convicted of a pattern of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, racketeering activity, including human trafficking, Sex offender, sex offenses and fr ...

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* ONE (Oury Engolz) * The Option Institute

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PSI Seminars PSI Seminars is a private company that offers large-group awareness training (LGAT) seminars for professional and personal development. Programs are held in many locations in the U.S., Canada, Japan and worldwide. There are PSI Seminars offices in ...

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*Relationships *Rapport Leadership

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Silva Method The Silva Method is a self-help and meditation program developed by José Silva. It claims to increase an individual's abilities through relaxation, development of higher brain functions, and psychic abilities such as clairvoyance. It has been v ...

(formerly Silva Mind Control) (José Silva) * Sterling Institute of Relationship (Arthur Kasarjian) * Spring Ridge Academy * Source Point Training * Siddha Samadhi Yoga ( Rishi Prabhakar)

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Transformation Technologies Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A or as WEA, was a commercial personal development program which operated from 1984 until early 1991. It replaced Erhard Seminars Training. Initially WE&A marketed and staged ''est'' training (in th ...

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Tony Robbins Anthony Jay Robbins ( Mahavoric, born February 29, 1960) is an American author, coach and motivational speaker. He is known for his seminars, and self-help books including the books '' Unlimited Power'' and ''Awaken the Giant Within''. Early ...

* Training In Power Academy

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Werner Erhard and Associates Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A or as WEA, was a commercial personal development program which operated from 1984 until early 1991. It replaced Erhard Seminars Training. Initially WE&A marketed and staged ''est'' training (in th ...

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Margaret Singer Margaret Thaler Singer (July 29, 1921 – November 23, 2003) was an American clinical psychologist and researcher with her colleague Lyman Wynne on family communication. She was a prominent figure in the study of undue influence in social and ...

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Cults in Our Midst ''Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives'' is a study of cults by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., with a foreword by Robert Jay Lifton. Overview Singer writes: Publication history The book was reprinted by ...

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Large Group Awareness Training The term large-group awareness training (LGAT) refers to activities—usually offered by groups with links to the human potential movement—which claim to increase self-awareness and to bring about desirable transformations in individuals' Person ...