Lifespring: Getting Yourself from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Rating:
Summary: LIve the experience
Review: After reading the "look before you leap" review, I assume the author has not read this book. I have not read it either, but have taken this training ten years ago and am purchasing the book today. My experience was a good one. I have met others who would not agree. I am compelled to write because of "look before you leap". I realize this is not for everyone, however, I don't want everyone to discount it due to a supposed review of a book. Lifespring was a great experience for me. It has not made me into who I am today but it has influenced me in many ways that contribute to my daily success in life. Feel free to E-mail me if you have questions.

Rating:
Summary: Counter point
Review: After reading the "look before you leap" review, I assume the author has not read this book. I have not read it either, but have taken this training ten years ago and am purchasing the book today. My experience was a good one. I have met others who would not agree. I am compelled to write because of "look before you leap". I realize this is not for everyone, however, I don't want everyone to discount it due to a supposed review of a book. Lifespring was a great experience for me. It has not made me into who I am today but it has influenced me in many ways that contribute to my daily success in life. Feel free to E-mail me if you have questions.

Rating:
Summary: LIve the experience
Review: As a former "student" of Lifespring process I felt that the book gives a lot of information that intelectually supports what goes on in the workshop. I recommend you do the workshop before you read the book.
I am very happy with the results for the workshop in my life and the contents of the book only come to show that it is a good option for life.

Rating:
Summary: Counter counter point
Review: Read the book, and it's full of unsubstantiated pseudo science and "borrowed" psychology that Lifespring acts like it invented, conjecture, arm-chair philsophy and panacea talk--just like Landmark. Here's the real scoop on Lifespring so you can form a more balanced opinion and compare it with the book like I did and formed my own informed opinion:

Founded In 1973 by John Hanley, Lifespring claims to have trained more than 400,000 people through its ten centers across the country. Like many "personal growth" groups, it counts on the fact that most people are impatient to learn about themselves and will do almost anything to speed up the process of self-discovery, including spending a lot of money for "secret" strategies. "Cults like Lifespring are like a psychological prison: What they do is narrow your world," says Marcia Rudin, director of the International Cult Education Program, "You leave friends and destroy relationships for a false high."

There have been at least 30 lawsuits against Lifespring, alleging everything from emotional damage to death. According to Gerald F. Ragland Jr., an attorney In Alexandria, Virginia, in 1984 a Philadelphia jury awarded [money]...to a client of his whom was hospitalized with mental problems after her Lifespring training. In 1992 a jury in Washington, D.C., awarded $300,000 to a young lawyer who was hospitalized for a mental breakdown five days after training. Yet according to Pittsburgh lawyer Peter N. Georgiades, its more common for cases against Lifespring to be settled out of court In 1982 the family of a man who leaped from a four-story holding following a five-day Lifespring training session settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. And In 1993 Georgiades won a ...settlement for a Lifespring trainee who was institutionalized for two years following Leadership training.

Mr/Ms. "Look Before You Leap" was indeed correct it would seem.