Large group awareness trainings, multi-level marketing and high-ticket coaching communities. Sourced profiles of commercial self-improvement groups, Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs), wellness companies, and high-ticket executive coaching systems.
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An intensive 60-hour, two-weekend Large Group Awareness Training founded by Werner Erhard in 1971 that blended Zen non-duality, cybernetics, existentialism, and encounter-group confrontation to produce rapid cognitive reframing among 700,000+ graduates.
A multi-level corporate executive coaching company that evolved into an insular hierarchical high-demand group, featuring systematic behavioral monitoring, sleep disruption, and collateral-enforced loyalty structures.
A San Francisco-founded sexual wellness and mindfulness company built around 'Orgasmic Meditation' (OM) that marketed female empowerment to affluent urban professionals while operating an internal high-control sales and residential matrix resulting in federal forced-labor convictions.
An online New Age relationship coaching enterprise and self-declared 'Church of Union' founded by Jeff and Shaleia Ayan that exploits romantic loneliness through closed Facebook forums, high-cost Zoom classes, 'Mirror Exercise' self-blame, and assigned 'Twin Flame' pairings.
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