A recent comment led me to this page, containing hidden camera footage of the Landmark Forum. There is a video stream (and pdf transcript) of a French documentary with English subtitles.
“Since 1995, Landmark Education has actually been considered a cult.”
“Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus”, or in French “Voyage Au Pays Des Nouveaux Gourous”, paints a damningly negative portrait of Landmark Education. Litigation has made it difficult to track down a copy of the documentary at all, so I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to watch it.
“But brainwashing is just that: it happens without the victim knowing it.”
To be fair, the documentary is pretty one-sided. And the background music cued up to tell you whenever Landmark is about to do something sleazy gets really tiring. But there are some powerful images of what goes on inside the secretive world of large group awareness training programs (LGATs).
