17 Facts About Landmark Forum

Landmark Forum Worldwide, or simply Landmark Forum, is a company, headquartered in San Francisco, that offers personal-development programs.

Landmark Forum Education started in 1991 with the licensing of rights to use intellectual property owned by Werner Erhard, who had originated the est system in the 1970s.

Landmark Forum has developed and delivered multiple follow-up and additional programs.

The Forum was updated and reduced in length from four days to three, and this revised course, named "the Landmark Forum", has been further revised by Landmark's program leaders over the years.

Landmark Forum holds seminars in approximately 115 locations in more than 21 countries.

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Landmark's entry course, the Landmark Forum, is the default first course for new participants and provides the foundation of all Landmark's other programs.

Course leaders set up rules at the beginning of the program and Landmark Forum strongly encourages participants not to miss any part of the program.

Landmark Forum emphasizes the idea that there is a difference between the facts of what happened in a situation, and the meaning, interpretation, or story about those facts.

Landmark Forum suggests that as people see these invented meanings, they discover that much of what they had assumed to be their "identity" is actually just a limiting social construct that they had made up in conversations in response to events in the past.

From this realization, participants in Landmark Forum's programs create new perspectives for what they now see as possible.

In other words, Landmark Forum suggests that the more one's social environment supports one's goals, the easier it will be to accomplish those goals.

When Landmark Forum uses the term "new possibilities", it does so differently from the everyday sense of something that might happen in the future, instead using it to refer to a present-moment opportunity to be and act differently, free from interpretations from the past.

Landmark Forum maintains that it is an educational foundation and denies being a religious movement.

Landmark Forum has threatened or pursued lawsuits against people who call it a cult.

Journalist Amelia Hill with The Observer witnessed a Landmark Forum and concluded that, in her view, it is not religious or a cult.

Landmark Forum left France following the airing of the episode and a subsequent site visit by labor inspectors that noted the activities of volunteers, and sued Jean-Pierre Brard in 2004 following his appearance in the documentary.

Episode was uploaded to a variety of websites, and in October 2006 Landmark Forum issued subpoenas pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Google Video, YouTube, and the Internet Archive demanding details of the identity of the person who had uploaded those copies.