Monday, March 30, 2020

POV Fundamentals of Success Programme




While revisiting the corporate website for Emotional Intelligence at Work by British Psychology of Vision follower Jeremy Marchant, I noticed a detail that was intriguing. Jeremy mentioned this:

He learnt the practical application of emotional intelligence from Psychology of Vision (PoV).  He assisted with the development of the PoV UK Fundamentals of success programme for businesses and he is accredited by them to deliver this programme. He has completed the Steps to leadership programme and more than one hundred days of PoV workshops.

http://www.emotionalintelligenceatwork.com/jeremy-marchant/

[Marchant's parallel company, Network Better, also provides the same information. Link below]

http://networkbetter.org/jeremy-marchant/

It is unclear who originally cooked up the Fundamentals of Success Programme or who Mr. Marchant assisted in the development of this project. Was it Chuck Spezzano, Jeff Allen, John Steele, who? In any event, such a program with "POV" as a preface would require permission from the cult leader Spezzano himself since he needs a piece of any action where the coin of the realm is involved.

We have covered Mr. Marchant before on this blog:

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2018/07/mainstream-psychology-as-it-stood-in.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2017/08/emotional-intelligence-at-work-and.html

The POV Fundamentals of Success Programme seems to have had a brief lifespan, like many other Psychology of Vision commercial ventures. There was only one other person online I could find who touted the POV Fundamentals of Success Programme in their resume: Kay McMahon, who listed the program in her profile as a consultant with Kelly Resources.





http://www.kellyresources.co.uk/profiles.html

In her LinkedIn profile, Kay says she was a co-owner of Emotional Intelligence at Work, 2008-2013.



https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaymcmahon1

But it appears she was still an officer in the Jeremy Marchant Ltd. corporation until 2018:



https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04909789/filing-history

The only mention of the Fundamentals of Success Programme outside of Marchant and McMahon I can find came from John Steele, a Swiss-based businessman who seemed enamored of the POV cult for a spell but apparently stopped promoting the toxic group after 2012. Steele's listing provides an outline of the curriculum:



https://web.archive.org/web/20180813102419/http://www.mri-manserv.ch/1117.htm

In a 2011-2012 marketing piece for a Steps to Leadership course, Steele offered this autobiography:

Facilitator

The course will be facilitated by John Steele and his wife Ursula. John  and Ursula are both graduates of the Psychology of Vision 100 day programme and have studied the principles of PoV since many years. In addition they are both qualified Avatar Masters and students of the energy healer Sue Gurnee. They have been married for more than 34 years  with Ursula and they have two sons. They have lived in Europe, Middle and Far Easts and are now settled in Switzerland.They attribute PoV to assisting them in maintaining and developing their relationship.


https://web.archive.org/web/20180923065448/http://www.mri-manserv.ch/kurse_details_1947.htm

Here is a sample from Gurnee's current website. It seems very Spezzano-like:

Susan Gurnee is sought worldwide for her artistic skills and her healing abilities. She discerns maladies before they manifest on the physical level. From distance she can view remotely and heal. Passionately dedicated to helping others to increase their perceptions, she has worked in the service and education field for more than three decades. Sue teaches advanced observational diagnosis to doctors and health care professionals in Europe and USA.

http://www.suegurnee.com/about.html

At any rate, the POV Fundamentals of Success Programme did not exactly rise to great heights. Yet another of the many commercial failures and dead-ends connected with Psychology of Vision.

2 comments:

Ed Tuttle said...

The Marchant and McMahon use of the term "accredited" gives Psychology of Vision an academic and official description it does not deserve. Chuck Spezzano's Ph.D. was NOT accredited by the APA. And POV is NOT an accredited educational institution worthy of financial aid from British Columbia's government. In the Jutta Lembke case, Germany did not recognize POV as a valid source for workplace professional development and Jutta was convicted of embezzlement for basically taking a vacation in Hawaii with the Spezzanos on her employer's dime. The use of the term "accredited" is just part of the enormous scam called Psychology of Vision. Chuck Spezzano is not now, nor ever has been a "psychologist."

Silly nonsense that can harm a lot of innocent people.

roger said...

In Kay's bio it says she was part of the POV program, "It's OK Being Me," but I believe that is actually a Visionworks creation from Sue Allen, although without a doubt totally influenced by POV. It would be interesting to know if the Spezzanos were part of the "It's OK Being Me" money trail or not. Probably not, since the Spezzanos did not promote it.

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