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The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum is a paper published in 2001 by the Journal of Contemporary Philosophy. One of the authors is a principle in Landmark Education, the organization that puts on the Landmark Forum. He has published two other papers since this one It deals with  contemporary methods of applying philosophy and Socratic dialog as instantiated in a course called the Landmark Forum put on by Landmark Education.

Here is the abstract of the paper: Philosophy promises more than contents of thought. It can cultivate openness to continuously arising new contents of thought. Unconsciously identifying with the contents of thought displaces this openness; the remedy for such unnoticed closed mindedness is self-knowledge. In the Socratic tradition the Landmark Forum - a forty-hour course sponsored by the employee owned Landmark Educational Corporation - provides a model of philosophy as the practical art of uncovering and expanding self-knowledge and thereby generating unforeseen ways of being in everyday life.

Citation
McCarl, Steven R., Zaffron, Steve, Nielsen, Joyce McCarl and Kennedy, Sally Lewis, "The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum". Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 & 2, Jan/Feb & Mar/Apr 2001 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=278955   or DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.278955