MOVED TOUCHED AND INSPIRED
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This site has been created by an international group of Landmark Education Graduates who are inspired by the opportunity to make a difference in the world. From our perspective, the whole point is making a difference. Everyone has an innate desire to make their own unique contribution in life. In the Landmark Forum and through the Landmark Education’s other courses, people not only get in touch with that unique contribution, they take action on it.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT
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WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT LANDMARK EDUCATION AFTER ALL?
Many people who have participated in the Landmark Forum are very enthusiastic about the course. People from all over the world have done the Landmark Forum and in fact Landmark Education has offices in more than 20 countries around the world. Over 1.3 million people have participated in the Landmark Forum since 1991 and over 100,000 people participate in Landmark Education’s courses each year. It can be argued that the popularity of the Landmark Forum is due to the way that it gets people to take action on the things that are important to them. While participating in the Landmark Forum people have a chance to clean up messes in their relationships with the people they care about. All of us have people in our lives that we care about and in the Landmark Forum people are given a chance to celebrate and get a new appreciation for those people. When people come out of the Landmark Forum, they want to share that with people. From our perspective, that alone would not have been enough to create this website. As far as we see it, the really exciting and inspiring thing about Landmark Education is that beyond the Landmark Forum people use the courses to make a difference in the lives of other people. As an organization, Landmark Education is not perfect but it does give people the power to express what is important to them. The 1.2 million people who have done courses with Landmark Education over the years come from all backgrounds and walks of life. Ordinary people who have not just gotten in touch with the things that they care about, but have gotten into action. In that way, this website is an explanation of what the big deal is about Landmark Education. The Landmark Forum and the other courses of Landmark Education may not be for everyone, but each of us has something to contribute in life. This website is a celebration of and a spot light upon some of those contributions.
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Landmark Forum graduate Kim Nishimoto was recently featured in The Chicago Tribune for her efforts to bring attention to the most common kind of car-bicycle accident – dooring, where a door of a parked car is opened in front of an oncoming bicycle. Nishimoto’s son Clinton Miceli was killed in a dooring accident in 2008, and she is working to have the Illinois Department of Transportation include dooring in its accident statistics. Until it is included, traffic safety funding won’t go towards preventing these commonly occurring accidents. Read the whole story from The Chicago Tribune.
This article was all too real for me. I was doored on my bike from a parked car as well, on my way to work in the San Francisco area. I remember seeing the door open and I was in between traffic and the parked cars and I had no time to do anything but close my eyes and let fate take me. I remember flying through the air and landing in front of an oncomingg car that had to slam on it’s brakes. I had a knee injury and my bike was destroyed, but I walked away. One second later and that car would have hit me. This reminds me of that brush with death and how lucky I am.
I’m a bicycle commuter in Seattle. I’ve been doored twice. I was lucky both times, the worst injury so far has been a bruise the size of half a softball on my rear end. The police were not involved in either of these incidents, but I wonder if there is a law in the traffic code for this? If the police are going to write traffic tickets for dooring a bicyclist, there has to be a charge in the traffic code for that. To my knowledge, there isn’t. If a driver pulls a car out of a parking space and hits a passing vehicle, (or bicycle), there’s a charge for that. As the article points out, if a driver doors somebody the car is parked, so it’s not a moving violation.
I am a bike messenger in ca and was doored while at work.The hospital bills have become quit large and I suffer upper and lower back pain daily even after the physical therapy. I have had too sue the person who open the door do to the fact that my work dose not insure it’s riders,and the driver of the car did not look before he opened his door,making him responsible.This has happened to many messengers and cyclist I no and is a serious problem.drivers should be held liable in any state for it is there responsibility . I also can relate to this article and suggest strongly anyone involved in this type of accident seek legal advice a.s.a.p