Description of the Behavioural Structure of the Training - Day 2

DAY TWO, EVENT TWO:

The trainer then leads the group into a guided imagery exercise, a walk in a meadow. Participants are encouraged to notice how they "resist" the naturalness of the meadow. At the end of the exercise, they are instructed to learn how they resist by noticing how they behave in the training.

[COMMENT: Again, as in day one, 3 of 3 "behavior" subjects (100%) reported that disagreeing with or questioning the trainer is reframed as demonstrating unenlightened. poor form. It resulted in social punishments such as ridicule or embarrassment. Interestingly. the training is identified with all that is good and natural: resisting the relaxing and beautiful meadow is the same as resisting the authoritarianism of the training. Critical thinking is identified with the very behavior that is causing participants trouble in their daily life and what they paid Vitality so much money to teach them not to do. In this way the preferred doctrine (the value of "surrendering'' to the "now") is a metaphor for the preferred behavior (surrendering to the authoritarianism of the training-).]