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I read the comments at the NYT-- part of the issue is people pattern-matching to est and part of it was sticker shock at the price. I don't know whether there's anything to be done to the similarity to est (basically that it's a very intense workshop, even though there's no upselling). I'm curious about whether offering it as a series of six-hour one-day workshops would be a bad idea.
There were also a bunch of people who said it wasn't different from CBT or someusch. I think the price is less than a year's worth of therapy, and I wonder how the results compare.
est?
EST-- a human potential system with expensive, intense workshops.
How quickly things change-- EST was very well-known in its time, but you're not the only person I've talked with who'd never heard of it.
Might also be a cultural thing - the Wikipedia articles gives me the impression it was more known in the US than in Europe. There's only one non-English version of the article.
It might be cultural, but the other person who hadn't heard of it is American, and only about 15 years younger than I am.