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In the Jungle, Fire Lady Takes on Teeth »

Called the ‘Fire Lady’ by children in Peru, New Jersey Landmark Forum graduate Jeannette Grauer is a dentist by trade. She has committed herself to creating sustainable healthcare in the Amazon in an environmentally friendly way and in partnership with the local peoples. To this end, she has created annual trips to the Amazon jungle in […]

Jersey Grad Brings out Stars in Millburn »

When it came time for Landmark Forum graduate Sara Lazarus to choose a project in her Self-Expression and Leadership program, she was not inspired. She thought of doing a benefit for a favorite charity.  As a successful theatre director, Sara knew lots of big name Broadway talent and could have asked them to perform.  But she realized […]

Landmark Forum Graduate Starts Support Site for Fibromyalgia Sufferers And Their Families »

When Princeton, New Jersey Landmark Forum graduate Khurt Williams’ wife was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few years ago, both of their lives were changed forever. Af first, Willams tried to pretend the symptoms were all in her head. “What a jerk I was!” he recalls. He thought that the stress of running a household by […]

Jersey Grad Celebrates MLK Day with ‘Bag of Dreams’ for Newark Teens »

When Landmark Education graduate Cinda Gaskin grew up in Harlen, there wasn’t a lot of dreaming. “If you were lucky you got a job and got a roof over your head,” she says. When Cinda started Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership program last fall, Martin Luther King Day was a few months away. She realized she wanted to have King’s […]

Where Peace Lives: Landmark Education Graduates Create Global Peace Group Where Students Cause Peace Through Art »

 
The origins of Where Peace Lives, an incredible new organization for peace in the world, lie in friendship. New Jersey natives Jeff Rudy and Jeff and Donna Clapp completed Landmark Education’s curriculum for living and then assisted as Introduction Leaders together over the last decade, during which time they became fast friends. Their involvement with Landmark Education […]

Landmark Forum Graduate Project: Bringing Green Groups Together »

people who knew Ariane Delafosse before she took the Landmark Forum last year would tell you that she would be the last person to do any kind of community project. “I was a complete introvert,” she recalls. “I had no interest in my community at all.”
In the Landmark Advanced Course, she decided that she wanted […]

SELP Project Helping people deal with the anxiety of Chemotherapy »

Ed Kmetz’s life has been touched by Lukemia several times. When he was participating in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program, he created a project to help people fighting the disease.
This story is from the Pocono Record Writer
Stroudsburg businessman who specializes in high-tech entertainment is using his expertise in a campaign to ease the […]

Nick Nardo gives back to community through Student Mural »

When Nick Nardo was participating in the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Program in New Jersey he wanted to connect with and contribute to his community. His project created a mural at the Second Street Youth Center in Plainfield New Jersey.
Here is the story from the Courier News in Bridgwater New Jersey.
PLAINFIELD — When […]