Interview with Dr. John Hanley - Page 5

JH: (Continued)
And you know, it's kind of silly looking back at it because you wouldn't think that some of the exercises that today probably 1,500,000 people have experienced globally would have had the kind of impact that they did, especially coming from, shall we say, these humble beginnings.  But it worked out and we were able to complete the design of what we now understand as the Lifespring Trainings.  It's called by many different names in many different countries but that model finally evolved in about 1974 and a half or 1975.

INT: You mentioned the phrase 'Large Group Awareness Trainings,' and I've heard that phrase bandied, about especially by people who take exception to this style of learning.  Where did that phrase come from, 'Large Group Awareness Training?'  What does it mean as far as you understand?

JH: Well, we took it upon ourselves to hire experts to study this phenomenon which we called experiential learning, and one of the researchers who was sort of the lead on about 15 studies that we did over the course of seven or eight years, is Dr. Mort Lieberman, who is at the University of San Francisco.  Prior to that, he was at the University of Chicago.  He coined the phrase 'Large Group Awareness Trainings.'

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