Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The letters LGAT abbreviate "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 Exegesis 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) See Also Pyramid scheme Marketing Multi-level marketing External link http://caic.org.au/psyther/lgat/singer.htm This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.