[yetidog]

I worked for a federal agency in the 70’s and 80’s which was very much into what was broadly called “organizational development” training. All of it was contracted and used transactional analysis concepts (see book “I’m OK-You’re OK) and self actualization methods to encourage teamwork and cooperation. I have seen this same framework used in both secular and religious settings (”Walk to Emmaus”). I would not say my participation in any of it was life-changing, but did admittedly give me the capacity for some introspection. But then again, I would say that time spent in quite isolated prayer/mediation/contemplation for me is just as productive as an intricately planned program of self-discovery.

[Steely Tom]

I remember Transactional Analysis from the early- to mid-'70s. "My parent is talking to your adult" and "your child is talking to my parent."

Amazing the fads they had back then. That was when America was going through a period of introspection and doubt, brought on (I think) by the loss of Vietnam, the Watergate mess, and the slow loss of our industrial supremacy.

Reagan reversed all that, and I hope that Trump will do the same for us over the next eight years.

[Heart-Rest]

That sounds a little like the "management/organizational training" that some of the corporate world was involved in back then too.

We were required to take numerous organizational/management/quality/etc. training courses back then, but about the only thing I can dig up from my memory at the moment of all that kind of training is the "thinking outside the box" or "thinking outside the nine dots" puzzle, which was supposed to open one's mind to alternative, creative solutions to problems and situations, and not impose artificial and unnecessary limitations on yourself.

For anyone who hasn't seen it already, here's that puzzle: