That LOC ended up creating problems for SO management because it basically gave the student pretty much free choice over his "hat in life", as far as I recall. So if someone posted as Toilet Cleaning I/C for the previous three years suddenly discovered he had always wanted to be a rock singer, the course checksheet went in the direction of him working out how to change his life and achieve that. Obviously this didn't go down too well with those trying to keep the show on the road.
Oh yes!
Does anyone else remember the Pam Jepson cycle at the HGB?
Pam Jepson was previously Pam Loewing, wife of Rudi Loewing. When she was married to Rudi, they had something like 5 kids. Rudi went out-2D with Claire Rousseau (that was a whole other flappy saga). Pam and Rudi got divorced.
Pam eventually remarried Steve Jepson. He was posted as Security Chief at the HGB. Pam was on some HCO post there; don't remember what.
So you have two long time, experienced staff members who are both HCO qual'd. Those who have been in know how valuable the SO considers this type of staff member to be.
Pam does KTL and LOC. Her cognition on LOC is that she wants to "create free beings".
Well, I'm sure no one thought much of it. Sounds very Scientological and Sea Org-y as a goal.
But she meant it
literally.
Within a month she was pregnant.
This was way after the "no kids" issue was out in the SO. She must have been adamant about keeping the baby. Her and Phil both wound up out of the Sea Org.
This was a major impetus for the first (of, I'm sure, many) "investigations into the out tech delivery of KTL and LOC".
Some people were accommodated. Later, the materials were, er, "clarified" to remove this opportunity.
I did KTL and LOC when they first came out.
Personally, as a staff member, I found LOC - hard to find the word - "unsettling". The beginning of the course makes you break your life down into its various parts: all your divisions and departments.
Well, in the SO you
have no life, except for being on staff. You don't own anything. You don't really have an actual 2D with a family life and kids. You have no time to call your own.
How are you supposed to fill out these elaborate detailed org boards, with your Div 6 and your Div 2 and your PR departments and everything else?
Without meaning to, it realy highlighted all you were missing in life being a Sea Org member.
Then, somehow, by the end of the course the materials take some kind of bizzare convoluted turn to imply that the best thing you could do for your multicompartmentalized org board was to join staff.
It made no sense.
Not too surprising that so many staff routed out soon after completing the course.