Large Group Awareness Training

Large Group Awareness Training or LGAT is a mechanism for promoting awareness change and rapid, thorough commitment to a cause or idea. LGATs tend to be brief but intense sessions of a few hours or days in which, ideally, participants adopt the message of the 'training' promptly and enthusiastically. Some see the classic LGAT as utilizing peer pressure and group dynamics in a high-pressure sales environment that promotes uncritical psycho-babbling togetherness and thus markets nebulous memes, and as fostering a propensity to recruit new participants into a participation-oriented pyramid scheme under the guise of providing useful training. Others see LGAT as a group mind methodology that can be used to accelerate training in specific skills. Improvisational comedy is an example of a skill that is, typically, taught via group-awareness training. Historically, LGAT origins trace back, at least in part, to the encounter group movement of the 1960s. Alleged LGATs include:
  • Context Associates
  • est/Landmark Education
  • Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
  • Exegesis
  • Garden Company
  • Insight
  • Lifespring
  • ManKind Project
  • Momentus
  • Training Phoenix 2000
  • PSI World
  • Silva Mind Control/Silva Method
  • Sterling Institute of Relationships
  • Whole Mind Learning (WML)
  • Life Training / Kairos Foundation

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