HeyJaredConfronting The Line
We are here to explore the world of personal development, and examine the often blurry line between transformation and exploitation. We are dedicated to finding that line, then looking, listening and learning in service of safer seeking for life long learners, like us.
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PART 2 | Inside a High-Control Coaching Culture: Who You Surrender Your Agency To (E72) (opens the original)
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AUDIO FIXED - PART 2 OF 2: In Part 1, Garry Norman was told to erase what he filmed. In Part 2, he and Anne Peterson ask how a culture teaches good people to look away. CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses psychological and verbal abuse in a workplace and coaching setting, including how a "training exercise" involving simulated strangulation is understood through the lens of domestic violence. If this is difficult territory for you, please take care as you listen, with support, in pieces, or
E71 Inside a High-Control Coaching Culture: What One Staffer Saw — and Was Told to Erase (Part 1) (opens the original)
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CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses psychological and verbal abuse in a workplace and coaching setting, including a training exercise involving simulated strangulation, and references to historical assault allegations. If this is difficult territory for you, please take care as you listen, with support, in pieces, or another time. In the US, RAINN offers confidential support at rainn.org or 1-800-656-4673. For support around high-control group experiences, Rachel Bernstein's Healthy Healing
E70: Jen Coached People 30 Hours a Week for Free and Called It Integrity — 17 Years Inside Landmark (opens the original)
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For seventeen years, Jen Coken was a Landmark seminar leader, coaching people thirty hours a week for free, leading sessions with a 103-degree fever, and calling it integrity. It took her more than a decade after leaving Landmark Worldwide (formerly Landmark Education) to say the word out loud, on this episode with Anne Peterson, for the first time in public: cult. CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of psychological manipulation and coercive control within a high-control group. If
E69 30 Years Inside Transformational Coaching — Then She Started Asking Where the Guardrails Were (opens the original)
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For thirty years, Vera Sheranova has stood inside the rooms where "transformation" gets sold. First as a language teacher, then as the person doing live, unrehearsed simultaneous interpretation of a high-stakes leadership course into Russian, with no script and no warning of what the instructors would say next, and for years, as the romantic and business partner of the man running it. Vera is a Moscow-based linguist, coach and psychological consultant who met Anne Peterson while coordinating Rus
E68: 11 Years Inside a Buddhist Community: A Cult Researcher on Spiritual Abuse and Trauma-Coerced Attachment (opens the original)
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A cult researcher spent 11 years inside a Buddhist community, rising to her teacher's inner circle, before a spiritual crisis broke it open. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains open discussion of spiritual abuse, coercive control and psychological manipulation within a high-control spiritual community. If you are a survivor of spiritual or religious abuse, please take care of yourself as you listen — that might mean listening with someone you trust, taking breaks, or choosing not to listen ri
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