About this website: The person who started Landmark Forum in India (Mr.Krishnan.M aka Kichu) left after 7 years and started his own program of relationship transformation covering all the aspects of Landmark Forum but without the jargon. His teachings are free of copyrights and he being already 71 years age, wants to disseminate his learnings. Hence this website to throw light on the thinking of Kichu.
About Kichu:
The Journey:
* Born and brought up in Mumbai in a Tam-Brahm Iyer family, he was associated with Est and the Landmark Forum from 1979 to 1986.
* Coached and mentored by Khursheed Merchant in EST (as Landmark Forum was known earlier
* NLP with Dr Richard Bandler, Dr Dick McHugh, Dr William Horton, Judith Delozier, Judith Lowe,
* Language and Behaviour Profile with Shelly Rose Charvet
* Integral Eye Movement Therapy, Weight Loss, Metaphors of Movement with Andrew Austin
* Resonant Leadership with Dr Robert Boyatzis
* Psych-K (Kinesiology) with Elizabeth Powers
* Transforming Self and other NLP programs with Krish Srikant
He brings all his studies and practices to his workshops as well as to his one-one coaching sessions. His coaching clients
include CEO's, CFO's, Directors of large MNC's, leaders in NGO's, first generation entrepreneurs, students etc.
In the last 40 years Kichu Krishnan has coached over 70000 people in India and other parts of the world. He has conducted
In house workshops for companies like Barclays, Yahoo, Deloitte, Fidelity, Ernst & Young, SAP, Tally, Ariba Technologies,
RIL, Avaya Technologies, Mavenir, and many others.
Background
Kichu is a first-generation entrepreneur, managing his many passions.
* Founder of Sirius Controls. 1986-2020 (which he sold off along with other directors for an undisclosed sum and he purchased from the sale proceeds his present house in JP Nagar)
* Mentor and productivity advisor for Small, Medium and Large Scale Industries, Sr Executives and CXO's of companies, Individuals who want to Excel in life
Kichu offers the following programs
* WorkSmart Program (This is happening online on September 30th and October 7th, interested can call Volunteer Rakshith on his Mobile No.9916750126)
* Setting and Achieving Goals, By Design
* Managing and Completing Tasks
* The "Transforming Relationships Program"
* Emotional Balance
* Inspiring and Empowering Communication
* Promise Based Conversations Program
* Using Language as a Productivity Tool
Past Students include Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilkeni and Mohandas Pai. After these three students, Kichu conducted seminar for 1500 managers of Infosys too.
Kichu's teachings
Note: Kichu says that any person who has knowledge of Kichu's teachings can add masala and share it freely- the more you share the better. That is based on the principal What comes from the Universe- goes back to the Universe. This is so different from the EST or Landmark Forum which copyrights its materials and prohibits taking of notes by sick patients.
I met Kichu on a lazy Saturday morning (lazy because it was a start of a long weekend). With all his white hairs, he jokingly said that he gets too much undeserved respect. He further stated that "None of you in this room have the ability to get me irritated" even if we say "Kichu-What you said was Nonsense".
First Slide of Kichu's Presentation
The second slide is very important in the sense, where do you see yourself. You need to attack your thoughts/ideas. Most people are in the past - i.e., in spectator mode. The example used by Kichu was a recent cricket match between India and another country. Say, the captain of the cricket team or lead batsmen hits a sixer, the crowd will pass its own judgement and start giving advice "boy, one six is enough, don't try more- you could get out". All these frustrations people experience sitting on the couch of their homes are not necessary being just spectators or critic. One should be out on the field as a Player and one should be always Present (another Landmark Forum jargon). Based on the relationship with the coach, our future will get transformed when in transform ourselves.
Third Slide of Kichu's PPT
How do you talk to yourself at below times:
* Angry
* Self-pity
* Tired
* Frustrated etc.
How do you feel at Work when you at below times:
* Anger
* Irritation
* Fed up
* Tired
* Not appreciated
* Jealous
* Depressed
* Not supported
* Bored
How do you talk talk to your colleagues with others?
You display negative self-destructing thoughts with others and yourself at these times but you really wanna change that right? However, if you experiment the same things you did while you were earlier but expecting different results will not help.
In the thrid slide we see that our emotions and our communications are two wheels of a balancing bicycle (Kichu joked that we should not give example of tricycles or the one wheel cycle used in circus). Our ability to manage and create will become much better if we get to balance both emotion and communication. If communication is good but emotion is bad, then the other person can feel that you are being insincere. If your emotions are good but your communications are bad, then the other person can see that you are not relly trying hard. When anger is an emotion, our communication being sarcastic is not appropriate.
Who are you willing to be? Can the other person think you are not a safe person to confide in you?
Kichu's 4th Slide of PPT
The above image shows three types of relationships:
* Level-1 : Easy to have good relationships
* Level-2 : Sometimes Easy and Sometimes Difficult
* Level-3 : People Very Difficult to Relate to
My Average Day: Kichu's 5th slide in PPT
Kichu's next 5th slide shows that all communications start with how we communicate with self (ourselves). Then it moves on to family/friends, from self to Work and from self to others like fruit vendor, bus driver etc.
So the questions you need to ask yourself are:
1. What percentage of my communications results in a desired result, on an average day?
2. It is not Zero percent or 100 %
3. I can communicate, yet I don't have mastery
4. Do you wanna be a master?
