One evening, a friend of mine invited me to go to Landmark Education and attend an orientation on Landmark Forum. I had never heard of Landmark Forum. It sounded interesting, so I went.

One of the things I have discovered about the Landmark Education system is that it uses the final session of each programme to encourage participants to bring guests, who are potential participants in the next programme. The programme is inexpensive, and financially this approach seems to work.

The first 90 minutes of the programme were focused on explaining what Landmark Education and Landmark Forum are. This was obviously targeted at the 30% of us who were guests who had not attended a programme before.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Shortly after Carey Leighow broke a baseball bat over his knee and his partner, Jeff "Big Dog" Warner, tore a Houston phone book in half, the duo got to the meat of their message:

"I want to encourage you to take your dreams, grab on with both hands and never let go," Leighow told the captive audience of about 750 pre-teens at Northpointe Intermediate School in Tomball last week.

The Power Team, a Dallas-based motivational speaking group, performed at a church and two public schools in the area, awing students with their super-human strength and then preaching the importance of valuing life and dressing appropriately.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

A former adviser for the Colonie-based company Nxivm was indicted Friday on charges he bilked thousands of dollars from a foundation affiliated with the human development group.

Albany County prosecutors allege Joseph O'Hara, 59, of Loudonville, swindled the Ethical Foundation out of $232,607 between May 2004 and August 2005.

O'Hara, a former Albany Firebirds executive and the one-time owner of the semipro Capital Region Pontiacs basketball squad, pleaded not guilty in Albany County Court on Friday to felony grand larceny charges.   FULL ARTICLE LINK