List of Large Group Awareness Training organizations

This is a list of organizations offering Large Group Awareness Trainings, and their founders. The methods, courses and/or techniques of the organizations listed here have been identified with Large Group Awareness Training by , or the organizations identify themselves with Large Group Awareness Trainings.

A

* Actualizations (Stewart Emery)cite book
last = Vahle
first = Neal
authorlink =
coauthors = Connie Fillmore Bazzy
title = The Unity Movement: Its Evolution and Spiritual Teachings
publisher = Templeton Foundation Press
date = 2002
location =
pages = 399, 402, 403, 480
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 1890151963] cite book
last = Singer
first = Margaret
authorlink = Margaret Singer
coauthors = Janja Lalich
title = Cults in our Midst (book)]
publisher =
date = 1995
location =
pages = pp. 42-43
url =
doi =
id =
isbn = ISBN 0-7879-0051-6] cite book
last = Coon
first = Dennis
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Psychology: A Journey
publisher = Thomson Wadsworth
date = 2004
location =
pages = 520, 528, 538
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0534632645
"Large-group awareness training refers to programs that claim to increase self-awareness and facilitate constructive personal change. Lifespring, Actualizations, the Forum, and similar commercial programs are examples. Like the smaller groups that preceded them, large-group trainings combine psychological exercises, confrontation, new view-points, and group dynamics to promote personal change."] cite book
last = Navarro,
first = Espy M.
authorlink =
coauthors = Robert Navarro
title = Self Realization: The Est and Forum Phenomena in American Society
publisher = Xlibris Corporation
date = 2002
location =
pages = 64
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 1401042201]
*Alpha Seminars
* Arica Institute (Oscar Ichazo)
* Avatar (Harry Palmer) [cite journal
last = Benjamin
first = Elliot
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Spirituality and Cults
journal = Integral Science
volume =
issue =
pages =
publisher =
date = June 2005
url = http://www.integralscience.org/spiritualitycults.pdf
doi =
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C

* Context Training (Randy Revell)
* Choices Personal Growth Seminar cite journal
last = DuMerton, M.A.
first = C.
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title = Tragic Optimism and Choices: The Life Attitudes Scale with a First Nations Sample
journal = (Master's Thesis)
volume =
issue = Master of Arts, Graduate Counseling Psychology Program, Peer Review by Paul Wong, Ph.D.; Jill Charlie, M.Ed.; Marvin McDonald, Ph.D.; Rod McCormack, Ph.D.
pages =
publisher = Trinity Western University
date = July 2004
url = http://www.twu.ca/cpsy/Documents/Theses/Lynn%20Dumerton%20thesis.pdf
doi =
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accessdate = 2007-04-14
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"The researcher contends that the Choices seminar is a type of Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) program. LGAT was a name coined for personal development programs in which many people at one time receive intense, emotionallyfocussed instruction over a period of hours or days to help them begin to discover the full potential for their lives. Described as part psychotherapy, part spirituality, and part business (Langone, 1998), notable LGAT programs, which originated from the human potential movement of the 1950s and 1960s, include the Erhard Seminars Training (est), Landmark Forum, Lifespring and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). These simplistic, highly structured and lucrative methods have spawned hundreds of take-offs on the original seminars, each attempting to create their own unique version."]

D

*Dimensional Mind Approach
*Direct Centering (Gavin Barnes, aka Bayard Hora)

E

*Erhard Seminars Training (est)cite book
last = Tindale
first = R. Scott
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Group Processes: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology
publisher = Blackwell Publishing
date = 2001
location =
pages = 630
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 1405106530
"EST, FORUM and LIFESPRING are all examples of LGATs, for members seek to improve their overall level of satisfaction and interpersonal relations by carrying out such experiential exercises as role-playing, group singing and chanting, and guided group interaction."] cite book
last = Pettijohn
first = Terry F.
authorlink =
coauthors = Charles G Morris, Eliot Shimoff, Charles Catania
title = Annotated Instructor's Edition, Psychology an Introduction, 6th Ed.
publisher = Prentice Hall
date = 1988
location =
pages =
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0137345003
"A recent development has been the emergence of large-group awareness training. Erhard Seminar Training (EST) is one of the best known."] cite journal
last = Finkelstein
first = P.
authorlink =
coauthors = Wenegrat, B.; Yalom, I.
title = Large Group Awareness Training
journal = Annual Review of Psychology
volume = 33
issue =
pages = 515–539
publisher = Calvin Perry Stone
date = 1982
url =
doi =
id = ISSN|0066-4308
accessdate = ] cite journal
last = Lieberman
first =
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Effects of Large Group Awareness Training on Participants' Psychiatric Status
journal = American Journal of Psychiatry
volume = 144
issue =
pages = 460–464
publisher =
location =
date = April 1987
url =
doi =
id =
accessdate = ] Citation
first = Charles Wayne
last = Denison
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title = Children of EST a Study of the Experience and Perceived Effects of a Large Group Awareness Training.
year = 1994
pages = Ph.D. Dissertation
place =
publisher = University of Denver
url =
doi =
id = ] cite news
last = Smart
first = Paul
coauthors =
title = The Sterling Men Of Woodstock: A Series (Part III) - The psychology of cults and secret societies
work = Woodstock Times
pages =
language =
publisher =
date = August 15, 2002
url =
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He held his first Large group Awareness Training session, for nearly 1,000 paying attendees, in San Francisco in 1971. By 1991, his "est" (Erhard Seminar Training) movement had hit some 700,000 converts by the time Erhard sold his "technology" to brother Harry Rosenberg in 1991 and moved out of the country facing bad press for both his movement and a soured personal life. Since then, Rosenberg turned est into The Forum.] cite book
last = Zeig
first = Jeffrey K.
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = The Evolution of Psychotherapy: The Third Conference
publisher = Psychology Press
date = 1997
location =
pages = Pp. 352, 357.
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0876308132
"Training or T-groups, sensitivity training, and encounter groups spread and were followed by commercially sold large group awareness training programs, such as est, Lifespring and other programs."] cite book
last = Burlingame
first = Gary M.
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Handbook of Group Psychotherapy: An Empirical and Clinical Synthesis
publisher = John Wiley and Sons
date = 1994
location =
pages = 528, 532, 535, 539, 549, 550, 555, 556, 581, 583.
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0471555924] cite journal
last = Langone
first = Michael
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Large Group Awareness Trainings
journal = Cult Observer
volume = 15
issue = 1
pages =
publisher =
location =
date = 1998
url = http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_articles/langone_michael_lgat.htm
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2007-10-24] (Werner Erhard)
* Exegesis (organization)cite news
last = Curtis
first = Adam
coauthors =
title = The Century of the Self
work =
pages = episode part 3 of 4
language =
publisher =
date = 2002
url = http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811&q=CENTURY+OF+THE+SELF
accessdate = 2007-10-24 This segment of the video discusses Exegesis (organization), likens it as an outgrowth of Erhard Seminars Training and Large Group Awareness Training.]

F

* The Forum (Werner Erhard)

H

*Hoffman Quadrinity Process

I

* Insight Seminars (John-Roger Hinkins)(Russell Bishop)

L

* Landmark Educationcite book
last = Fisher
first = Jeffrey D.
authorlink =
coauthors = Silver, Chinsky, Goff, Klar
title = Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training
publisher = Springer-Verlag
date = 1990
location =
pages = 142
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0387973206 , ISBN 978-0387973203
Page. vii. -- "The research reported in this volume was awarded the American Psychological Association, Division 13, National Consultants to Management Award, August 13, 1989."] cite book
last = Coon
first = Dennis
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior
publisher = Thomson Wadsworth
date = 2003
location =
pages = Pp. 648, 649, 655.
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 053461227X]
*Leadership Dynamics (William Penn Patrick)
*Life Dynamics
* Lifespring (John Hanley)
* Lifestream Seminars (James Roswell Quinn)
* Life Training / Kairos Foundation (W. R. Whitten and K. B. Brown)

M

* Mind Dynamics (Alexander Everett)
* Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), (Roger Delano Hinkins)

O

* ONE (Oury Engolz)

P

*Pathwork
* Personal Dynamics
* PSI Seminars (Thomas D. Wilhite)

R

*Relationships

* Silva Method (Formerly Silva Mind Control) (José Silva)
* Sterling Institute of Relationships (Arthur Kasarjian)

T

* Transformation Technologies (Werner Erhard) [cite journal
last = Jacobs
first = Alan
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Autocratic Power
journal = Idea Journal
volume = 1
issue = 1
pages =
publisher =
date = May 1, 1996
url = http://www.ideajournal.com/articles.php?id=3
doi =
id = ISSN|1523-1712
accessdate =
.."or some version of large group awareness training or LGAT like est or one of its offshoots, such as Transformation Technologies, the Forum.."]

W

* Werner Erhard and Associates(Werner Erhard)

External links

* [http://caic.org.au/psyther/lgat/singer.htm Intruding into the Workplace] , Dr. Margaret Singer, excerpted from "Cults in Our Midst", (1995)
* [http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark49.html List of Training Programs Considered to be LGATs] , Polaski, Mary., 2000.

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See also