When you choose to lie flat, although you have nothing, you will be invincible. But if you choose to be motivated, there are ways to cut your leeks in the outside world. There are even people who package pyramid schemes as "motivated".
This is not speculation from the outside world, it is said by the so-called trainers who have brought people into the group.
"Coaching technique", a seemingly harmless model of training, has been harvesting money from specific groups of people in its unique way for many years.
When it was determined to be a pyramid scheme and investigated, it had been a leek for 20 years.
Yelling like Hitler
Back in 2017, in an extremely remote industrial area in Nanning, Xiao Hao (pseudonym) didn't expect that there was a hidden place here.
The training was held on the highest floor of a building, and the entire perimeter of the building was almost deserted. If you don't enter the training hall, you can't see anyone from the outside, and you can't hear the shouts coming from inside.
The first time he entered the door, Xiao Hao retreated a little. When he came to participate in the training, he neither took the initiative nor paid for it, and the tuition fees of thousands of yuan were paid in advance by a friend, so it was naturally the intention of that friend to let him come.
What is evident is that his friends have been trained to fall in love with this unique model and environment. But Xiao Hao, who had just entered the training hall, listened to the almost terrifying shouts inside, which inevitably reminded him of Hitler in history.
Later, Xiao Hao learned that the buildings of the training hall were equipped with soundproofing equipment, and they were fully enclosed, so no matter how loud the sound inside was, there was nothing to see from the outside.
There are nearly 140 people in the training class that Xiao Hao entered, and the rest were students except for a dozen coaches. What he didn't expect was that more than 100 people came from many parts of the country.
In addition to the local people in Guangxi, there are also people from Guangdong, Hubei, Chongqing and other places. The farthest trainees even came from Gansu and Hebei.
Before the class officially started, several coaches began to ask Xiao Hao to hand over their mobile phones, and emphasized that this is the bottom line and foundation of the next training.
Xiao Hao handed over the mobile phone, and a student was found because he didn't hand it over, and in full view, the coach actually asked him to destroy the mobile phone in public.
Later, Xiao Hao realized that in the training session, the coach asked them to share the most private things with each other. These things are naturally not easy to talk about to the outside world, and if they are recorded or photographed, it really won't end well.
Xiao Hao originally didn't want to share, but after a few days of class, whenever he entered that private environment, under the constant support of music and coaching, he gradually said a lot of things.
At that time, Xiao Hao didn't know that he was walking step by step to the pit dug by the other party. The so-called "frank meeting" between training institutions and trainees is in fact inducing people to enter a closed system step by step.
Just like hypnosis, the training that Xiao Hao has just come into contact with is only the first part. It is not known whether he received training in the second and third phases.
But what is certain is that his friend must have received the third phase of training for more than three months.
Because only after these trainees have experienced the real baptism, will they "selflessly" take money and pull their friends into the training to participate in the training.
Some people are deeper than Xiao Hao, and the loss of money is secondary, the key is that after training, the original family members feel that the parties have changed.
Shandong's Lao Zhang was angry because his wife's temperament had changed drastically, and he lurked in a training class, trying to find evidence to report the other party.
The lurker Lao Zhang was destroyed three views
Lao Zhang is a native of Shandong, and his wife once attended training in Jinan, but when she returned home, she completely changed as a person. Every time he lied to him, his emotions were even more perverse, and he also said that Lao Zhang didn't understand himself at all.
Seeing that his wife had changed, Lao Zhang decided to also go and see what kind of magic they possessed, which could make people's temperament change greatly.
The entire training course was similar to what Xiao Hao saw in Nanning, and Lao Zhang did not find anything abnormal when he listened to the class in the first stage. Usually the coach asks him to do what he does, and he follows it.
When the training entered the second stage, Lao Zhang saw a so-called agreement on the first day of class. It goes so far as to stipulate that for the next 90 days, there must be no financial or sexual relations between the trainees.
At first, Lao Zhang didn't understand what this meant, but after signing the agreement to start the second phase of training, he was a little shocked.
Every day, Lao Zhang has a so-called friend by his side, not only him, but other students will also be arranged by the coach to match, basically male and female, and then train according to the goals and tasks set by the coach.
What Lao Zhang didn't know was that some classes held at night, and the male students were naked, while the female students only wore underwear and underwear.
At this point, the agreement to avoid sexual relations is actually a training provider who has to disassociate the relationship beforehand.
As for economic relations, through the continuous reinforcement of the game in the training, some students who believe in it will take the initiative to take money to pull their relatives and friends to participate in the training.
In addition, there are so-called punitive measures in the training, some of which are financial penalties. Therefore, through the signing of the previous agreement, it is tantamount to explaining in disguise that whether it is sexual relations between men and women, or financial punishment, it is voluntary for the trainees and has nothing to do with the training institution.
Therefore, the longer the training time, the more Lao Zhang's original three views were shattered. There is a so-called shipwreck game, which impressed Lao Zhang extremely much.
The whole process is that the coach is suppressing, abusing and hypnotizing, and no matter how the student chooses, he will always be judged to be wrong in the end.
After this round of torture, Lao Zhang gradually understood that the so-called training is the process of gradually consuming the individual self.
They deconstruct your shame, deconstruct people's self-esteem, and when you really want to be "reborn" as the coach said, there will be no original worldview between everyone.
After that, not to mention that the trainees take money to the institution, there is a high probability of chaotic sexual relations between the trainees and the trainees, and between the coaches and the trainees.
At this point, some students who have been completely degraded will become what they call "inspirational starfish". Just like Xiaohao's friends, he is willing to advance money himself and pull more relatives and friends to participate in the training.
At this point in the development of things, it is also possible to understand how these training institutions make money. By constantly attracting people in, and some people continue to pay the so-called training fees, the training institutions can make a lot of money.
Lao Zhang has been undercover for a long time, and it can be said that he has "benefited a lot" from the broken three views, but some people like him who have not been brainwashed still don't understand why some people take the initiative to participate in this kind of training?
Bai Fumei will be killed by a stroke
A coach who has worked as a training institution once admitted to the media that people who take the initiative to come to the class are self-motivated.
The coach's words are actually true, in 2021, Wei Meng, a female investor in her early 30s, died suddenly because she participated in a training from an institution.
Wei Meng is the general manager of a venture capital firm in Beijing, and in 2019 she was on the Forbes China Elite List, a young female elite who has a successful career compared to her peers.
But in the summer of 2021, she suddenly fainted at the premises of a training institution in Beijing. The on-site personnel called an ambulance, but Wei Meng remained unconscious after being taken to the hospital, and she died in the hospital a day later.
Later, an insider revealed to the media that Wei Meng fainted due to emotion during a mutually abusive session and finally passed away. It can also be said that she was actually scolded to death.
The outside world may not understand, but in fact, what is even more incomprehensible is that the so-called training course that Wei Meng participated in at that time was only one week, but the cost was as high as an astonishing 9,800 yuan.
It is obvious that such a high cost is not something that ordinary consumers can afford, and the training institutions are crowded, which can only show that people who are willing to spend money to participate in training are all people like Wei Meng who have already achieved something.
The training institution also emphasizes in the public publicity that each participant can break through himself, as long as he or she participates in the course, he will definitely be more capable than before.
However, with the death of Wei Meng, some trainees who have participated in the training have broken the news, which is actually brainwashing, amplifying people's negative emotions, and it is easy to make people angry.
In addition, the training that Wei Meng participated in may also be like Xiao Hao and Lao Zhang participated in other places, the whole class is closed, and there is no communication with the outside world.
With these characteristics, it can be seen that no matter what kind of coat the training institution changes, it still implements control through brainwashing, and finally achieves the purpose of pulling people's heads.
The reason why many successful people will also be deceived, as the coach said, as long as you are self-motivated and have a strong desire to improve yourself, then this kind of training institution can accurately realize the "harvest of leeks" under the guise of improving people's abilities.
But the problem is, you want to be motivated, and the training institutions see you as a thriving leek.
This group of adults is like fools
Liu, who is in his 50s, has been in this industry for many years. In 2016, he opened a training institute in Beijing, believing that it was a profitable business and that through this method, students could have an epiphany.
But 18 months after the training course was opened, Lao Liu suddenly gave up. In his own words, he didn't make the trainees have an epiphany through training, but the process of this training made him a little enlightened.
"It's just a deceptive thing, so I don't do it. In an interview with reporters in 2021, Lao Liu once said.
He mentioned an example of a game of nailing a coffin that was played during training, where a group of people simulated nailing a living person into a coffin.
During the whole game, some people cried, some sobbed, and some had a terrible emotional breakdown. Lao Liu said that the scene was quite funny, with dozens of adults gathered together, like a group of fools.
Regardless of whether Lao Liu's withdrawal was sincere or not, his words to describe the students as fools must have come from the heart. A lot of people expect progress through so-called training, but in the eyes of those who run it, it's just a bunch of fools.
The cost of being a fool is still very high, according to media surveys, some training institutions in Guangdong, the course fee is as high as 45,000 yuan.
A businessman surnamed Li also participated in three sessions of training under the recommendation and inspiration of a friend. In his opinion, the whole process is brainwashing, and the climax is actually the inspiration of the third stage, because only after passing this stage will someone pull new people into the group.
epilogue
This so-called training first appeared in the 90s of the last century and has existed for more than 20 years now. Some former students are willing to give up their jobs to become teaching assistants, and then step by step they are promoted to coaches and even mentors.
A former coach has been in contact with the group since 2006 and has since been deeply involved in it. gave up the original business to become a coach and caused, and finally the business was yellow, and his wife ran away.
This model has been running for so many years, and the implementation has long been decentralized everywhere. That is, the original model designer cannot be found, and some of the people who participated in it later have been brainwashed and are constantly injecting fresh blood into the development and growth of the model.
As for those who believe that they can change themselves through training, it is essentially because the social rhythm is too much, people attach too much importance to competition, too much involution, and want to achieve the so-called success to the extreme.
The end result is to fall into the trap of this kind of pyramid scheme and not be able to extricate yourself.
Resources:
""Coaching Technique" Training Chaos: Led to Say Privacy, Some Students Wear Bikinis to Class" The Paper, May 9, 2017
"A 32-year-old female investor dies in a class of 'mind control'" The Paper, August 18, 2021
"Coaching Techniques: How a Training Technique Originating from MLM Makes Money for 20 Years?" Southern Weekly, August 19, 2021
"Spending 45,000 to Find Scolding and Completing the Inspirational Indicators?Revealing the Routines Behind the Coaching Technology Class" Voice of China, September 4, 2021