Oct. 9, 2018
This morning I discovered another yet another Psychology of Vision corporate for-profit spinoff. One day I will have to create an organizational chart but I am afraid it would be filled with lots of short-lived efforts and dead-ends.
I started with the Blessed Life website, which belongs to Japanese POV trainer Yamato Mina:
http://pov-yamatomina.com/
Now personally I think Japan is the most fascinating country on the planet and I wish I had learned the language, as two of my nephews have done. But they are now grown up and live far away, so I am forced to use the rather clunky Google translate.
The Blessed Life website has a somewhat garbled and inaccurate description of POV, but I will put that down to how much has been mangled in translation:
Yamato Mina charges 32,400 yen an hour for a one on one consultation, which is around $283 American. Quite a bargain compared to the rate of over $1100 an hour Chuck Spezzano charges for an individual session.
She also offers something called a "MFB Session" which was new to me. As it turns out this is a complicated personality test administered by more POV people, including two trainers, under the auspices of a spinoff called the Human Power Research Institute or the General Human Interest Research Institute (the translation is a bit rough). I am guessing this outfit is about a year or two old but it is hard to determine. Here are some samples from their website. Most interesting:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmfbmentor.com%2Fmfb-kensa%2F&sandbox=1
As you can see the POV triangle is an essential part of the process. As POV has "trainers," and Steps to Leadership has "facilitators," this enterprise has "mentors." The use of "certification" gives the whole affair an official veneer, just like POV and STL. There are currently 18 "mentors," 16 of them are female. So far as I can determine, NO ONE connected with any of these groups are professionals in the field of psychology, including Chuck Spezzano himself who was fined by the State of Hawaii in 2004 for pretending to be one.
Enter at your own risk.
Hideaki and Hiromi Kurihara are the highest ranking "trainers" in the steep POV hierarchy. The blog on this website is very heavy into Chuck Spezzano, making me wonder if Chuck is getting any piece of the financial action in this business.
