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Bulletin Board message by Jack Phillips
I attended the Landmark Forum in January 1993. The Forum was a Christmas present from my mother and it was the first Landmark event I ever attended. I was full of skepticism and imagined that it would be some kind of phony tent show for the gullible. I was an experienced lawyer, a municipal judge and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve. I was also an experienced public speaker and had recently given a briefing to congressional staffers as well as a speech to the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association.
The Landmark Forum sounded way too good to be true. I expected to be making fun of it soon at cocktail parties. The course began very slowly. I sat in the back row, folded my arms and never said a word. The Forum Leader was not what I expected. I had seen polished, slick professional presenters. The Forum leader was not like them and wasn't trying to be.
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Before the Landmark Forum I had been estranged from my father for about thirty years. I pretended to myself and others to be totally indifferent about him. I did not go to the the Forum to work on my relationship with my father. That would have been ridiculous. I knew how I was and how he was and how life was and there was definately no possibility in any of those areas. In the Forum I saw my responsibility for how things had been about my father and I saw the opportunity to alter it. I got in touch with my dad and established a new connection with him. We still have it seven years later and it continues to grow. We see each other. We talk on the phone. We express love for each other. I have a greater experience of peace, freedom and love in my life.
The Landmark Forum has provided me a richer deeper more responsible experience my own life. The distinctions of the Forum are available to me all the time and the more I apply them the greater my effectiveness at whatever I am committed to. |
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