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LevelFive investigated the ideological legacy of controversial large group self-actualization seminars from late 1970s in America. These seminars were emotionally intense multi-day sessions of talks, physical exercises and manipulative group dynamics with the goal of breaking down the participants’ everyday identities and liberate the inner self. A single seminar could attract thousands of participants, who hoped to unlearn societal constraints and achieve personal transformation. Values and practices from this once influential movement still shape fields like management consulting today; the larp took the participants back to the self-actualization seminars at the source.<br><br>