I’m not familiar with Landmark, but the description of how they deal with narratives reminds me of therapy and memory reconsolidation; much of this sounds a lot like making unconscious beliefs and interpretations explicit so that they can then be disproven.
According to Landmark, the answer is simple, you just do (“all this time you thought you were trapped inside, but the door wasn’t even locked”). They illustrate this with the story of monkeys being trapped by putting a banana in a cage just big enough for them to put their hands through. As it goes, when the monkey tries to grab the banana, it finds its hand trapped as the hole isn’t big enough to pull it out. The monkey could escape, but it’s unwilling to let go of the banana. However, we could also interpret them as operating under the theory that if the understanding and realisation is strong enough and lands deep enough then it creates a shift automatically.
Unlocking the Emotional Brain notes that while making unconscious narratives explicit and conscious isn’t always enough to disprove them, there are many cases where it is, because once they are explicit it is easier for the brain to notice how they contradict other things that it also believes. That would be in line with this kind of a theory.
I’m not familiar with Landmark, but the description of how they deal with narratives reminds me of therapy and memory reconsolidation; much of this sounds a lot like making unconscious beliefs and interpretations explicit so that they can then be disproven.
Unlocking the Emotional Brain notes that while making unconscious narratives explicit and conscious isn’t always enough to disprove them, there are many cases where it is, because once they are explicit it is easier for the brain to notice how they contradict other things that it also believes. That would be in line with this kind of a theory.