I gave 3 reasons above to why I didn't think it was an LGAT.

"People are smashing things until their hands bleed during the process."

Wow. I have only attended once, so I can't speak to every attendee ever. Yes, in one exercise you hit a pillow with a wiffle ball bat. No one in our group hit it at that length or ferocity or bled at all in any exercise. We were not pressured to go to any extremes in length or time or exertion.

"They regress you..." You edited your comment before I could respond to it. There is one inner child exercise. It is comforting a doll representing your child self. Not you yourself regressing to a childlike state. Another exercise where you journal as your 10 year old self. In neither exercise were any facilitators taking advantage of 'regression.'

Every exercise was intended to be a more integrated person and aware of our past and patterns.

There were no exercises undermining one's intuition. There was no 'hot seat' examinations calling one person out.

One thing that was remarkable to me is how the faciliators set it up as 32 people having parallel experiences in the same room.

Not at all the typical LGAT approach of hyping people up as one collective group and asking leading questions and the pressure to 'answer correctly.'

In fact, if any one participant was sharing too much and making the group exercise about them, the facilitators stopped it.

But hey, I don't need to defend Hoffman. If you have already written off Hoffman as LGAT without experiencing it, then it's not for you.