MITT is the third generation of government convicted fraudulent Large Group Awareness Trainings. It, as well as Landmark, comes from a company called Mind Dynamics that is related to one of the first pyramid schemes in The United States. The first generation was a company called Mind Dynamics. This company was disbanded following an investigation of fraud. Former members created a number of spin offs including Lifespring and EST. After both spin off organizations were tried and convicted of lawsuits ranging from involuntary servitude to wrongful death in the 80s and 90s both were also disbanded. In the 90s EST then became Landmark while in 1999 the Los Angeles Area Director of Lifespring Margo Majdi bought the company and renamed it the Mastery in Transformational Training (MITT). Lifespring was a three tiered system that used psychological strain, public embarrassment, harassment, imposed buddy system, strict rules and regulations, sleep deprivation, promoting deficient views of family, false memories, and whole host of other military basic training proven psychological techniques used to create loyalty with their attendees. The structure used by MITT is a three tier system with increasing prices at every level. The first tier is a basic introduction that focuses on identifying your faults and issues in your personal life. This is followed by a graduation and reunion that aggressively sells the advanced program. The second tier advanced program allows you to earn a certificate to move on to further training through promoted contact with people in your life based around course exercises. Finally a third tier teaches you how to lead people into the basic program. At all levels you are in constant contact with the trainers, the company, and the other members to encourage forward movement. Upon leaving the MITT it is common the member will receive phone calls and at home visits to attempt to convince them to return. Some previous member who have left the group have changed phone number and/or addresses.