[ENF] Radical Honesty

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Is anyone familiar with the Radical Honesty seminars? There are apparently a large contingent of people who swear by the philosophy. I found this snippet from their workshop day 5 and 6 activities kind of intereting:

Also, about the fifth day of the workshop, everyone get naked in the hot tub room. One person at a time stands up in front of a mirror and talks about what they like and don't like about their body. This is also recorded. Then they tell their sexual history- when they first found out that they were a sexual being; when they first masturbated; whether they like doing it with men or women or vegetables, animals, or minerals; how many people of each gender they have had sex with; their best and worst sexual experiences; and so on. Each participant stands naked in front of us, recounting these details while being recorded, until we who are watching and listening (and also naked) feel they are no longer embarassed. They often are embarassed, but with good coaching and persistence and complete sharing of the truth they get over it. Everyone always thinks this will be a sexy experience. SO far, it has never been very sexy at all. Mostly it is about embarassment and shame and suffering more than pleasure, and about how the avoidance of all those aspects often controls our lives.

The next day, we review the DVDs together, projected onto a wall so you a bigger in image than in reality. Each person sits by the wall of the projected image when their image appears, observes their segment of the DVD, and receives feedback. The process of watching themselves on (big) television, naked, while talking about their sex lives is a more confrontational process for some people than the original experience of standing naked before the group. Again, the willingness to face the experience and live through it provides a decrease in the intensity of the sensations related to shame and a change in perspective on their own life in the direction of compassion for themselves as well as others.

http://www.radicalhonesty.com/workshops.php

Anyone interested in scoping it out for us and grabbing some DVDs? Seriously though, anyone know anyone who's done this and has information about it?