Editing Large-group awareness training (section)

==The evolution of LGAT providers==

Lou Kilzer, writing in ''[[The Rocky Mountain News]]'', identified [[Leadership Dynamics]] (in operation 1967–1973) as "the first of the genre psychologists call 'large group awareness training'".<ref>
{{Cite news
  | last = Kilzer
  | first = Lou
  | title = Desperate Measures Network of Behavior Modification Compounds Known as Teen Help Has Straightened Out Hundreds of Defiant Adolescents, But Its Methods Aren't For the Faint-hearted.
  | work = [[Rocky Mountain News]]
  | publisher = [[E. W. Scripps Company]]
  | date=July 18, 1999
  }}<br />"The first of the genre psychologists call "large group awareness training" was the Leadership Dynamics Institute..."
</ref>
Leadership Dynamics directly or indirectly influenced several permutations of large-group transformation trainings.{{citation needed|date= June 2017}} [[Werner Erhard]] (successively associated with [[Erhard Seminars Training]] (est or EST), [[Werner Erhard and Associates|WE&A]] and [[Landmark Education]]) trained as an instructor with Mind Dynamics.<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Lande
 | first1 = Nathaniel
 | author-link1 = Nathaniel Lande
 | title = Mindstyles, Lifestyles: A Comprehensive Overview of Today's Life-changing Philosophies
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EgYrAAAAMAAJ
 | publisher = Price/Stern/Sloan
 | date = 1976
 | isbn = 9780843104097
 | access-date = 22 January 2020
 | quote = ... Werner Erhard trained as a Mind Dynamics instructor ...
}}
</ref>
Michael Langone notes that Erhard Seminars Training (est) became in the popular mind the archetype for LGATs.<ref name="langone">{{Cite journal
  | last = Langone
  | first = Michael
  | author-link = Michael Langone
  | title = Large Group Awareness Trainings
  | journal = Cult Observer
  | publisher = [[International Cultic Studies Association]]
  | volume = 15
  | issue = 1
  | year = 1998
  | url = http://www.csj.org/rg/rgessays/rgessay_lgate.htm
  | issn = 1539-0152
  | access-date = 2017-06-11
  | quote = In the 1960s the encounter group movement was born.  Advocating enhanced communication and intensified experience, this movement evolved into something that was part psychotherapy, part spirituality, and part business. In some scholarly articles, these groups were referred to as "large group awareness trainings" or LGATs. Erhard Seminars Training (est) was the most successful of these groups, and it has been widely imitated. Even though it no longer officially exists, in the minds of many est is identified with the entire LGAT movement. It is in a sense the progenitor of a myriad of programs that have been marketed to the public and the business community.
  | archive-date = 2019-05-08
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190508224107/http://www.csj.org/rg/rgessays/rgessay_lgate.htm
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref>

While working for [[Holiday Magic]], [[Lifespring]] founder John Hanley attended a course at Leadership Dynamics.<ref>
{{cite news 
  | last = Fisher
  | first = Marc
  | title = I Cried Enough to Fill a Glass: In One Lifespring Session, Trainees May Find Themselves Crawling on Their Hands and Knees, Wailing Like Infants and Tightly Hugging 200 Total Strangers - All to Get Control of Their Lives. Does it Work? Sometimes.
  | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]
  | publisher = 1987 The Washington Post
  | date = October 25, 1987 
}}
</ref>
Chris Mathe, at the time a [[PhD]] candidate in [[clinical psychology]], wrote that most of the current commercial forms of Large Group Awareness Training {{as of | 1999 | lc = on}} were modeled after the Leadership Dynamics Institute.<ref name="mathe">{{cite web |last=Mathe |first=Chris |url=http://perso.orange.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/choosingx.htm |title=Choosing a Personal Growth Program: Ten questions to help you make an informed decision |year=1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714043544/http://perso.orange.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/choosingx.htm |archive-date=2006-07-14 |quote=Most of today’s commercial LGATs are modeled after the Leadership Dynamics Institute (LDI), a program developed by William Penn Patrick in the early 1960s.}}</ref>{{sps|date=July 2022}}