Eh, I won't name names on the cult thing, I don't like to pop up on their radar. They have for the most part they have left me alone for the past fifteen years, but on occasion they contact me and try to suck me back in. They don't play nice so I won't pull Beetlejuice and invoke their name. I was an excellent cultist and faced a determined push to move me up the ladder but never once bought into their overarching metaphysics.

Most of the communication training was done by drilling, to make techniques 2nd nature. You would tell a partner a problem and then the partner would misstate what your problem was. You would then have to restate your problem and they would restate your problem wrong again. You would go personal "I don't think you are really listening to what I'm trying to say." They would misstate the problem again you would find another way to get them to restate your problem until the proctor type person would give the nod and then you would reverse the process.

Other exercises were things like staring into another persons eyes for a half hour. They would blather some nonsense about feeling your real self as you walked away from that one high as a kite. Some of it was pure bullshit other stuff was pretty useful.