LGAT





LGAT is the abbreviation for "Large Group Awareness Training".

A mechanism to promote awareness change and thorough rapid commitment to a
cause or idea. LGATs tend to brief but intense sessions of a few hours or
days in which participants ideally adopt the message of the training
promptly and enthusiastically.

Some see the classic LGATs as utilizing peer pressure and group dynamics in
a high-pressure sales environment to promote uncritical psycho-babbling
togetherness and thus to market nebulous memes and a propensity to recruit
new participants into a participation-oriented pyramid scheme under the
guise of providing useful 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
   * Garden Company
   * Hunger Project
   * Insight
   * Lifespring
   * ManKind Project
   * Momentus
   * Training Phoenix 2000
   * PSI World
   * Silva Mind Control/Silva Method
   * Sterling Institute of Relationships
   * Whole Mind Learning (WML)