# Self Awareness Courses

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-awareness-courses/93591>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-awareness-courses/93591 "2001-11-15T20:03:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-awareness-courses/93591/1 "2001-11-15T20:03:10Z")

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About four years ago ,the company I work sent all of their employees on “self awareness” courses. Each session consisted of groups of about twenty , holed up in a hotel for a week and carrying out a whole range of tasks. This included role playing , confessing a secret to a co-worker, deciding if you were a passive or agressive person etc. I am afraid that during the course I get swept along like everyone else, a bit like a revival meeting. But when I got home I realized what nonsense it all was. Our Company spent about fifteen million pounds sterling on this phscho-babble and I do not think that it made one ounce of difference to our work attitude . Has anyone else been on these course. Did thay think they were stupid or did you benefit from them ?