Depends on the seminar, I reckon. I've never been to Steve's or Tony's, but I've been to some good ones and some not so good ones.
I agree with the author that change is the key -- I think a seminar is worth attending only if it not only inspires insight and change, but also provides tools for you to get yourself into an insightful state and effect change in your life whenever you want to be insightful or change.
For me, personally, I would also agree with the author that five or ten minutes per hour of exercises is woefully inadequate -- I'm a "how" person, so I'd get pretty antsy sitting there listening to lecture or a stage volunteer. That is, unless the lecturer is giving me mind-bogglingly valuable stuff and sparking change right then and there as I listen, and if the stage volunteer work is skillfully done in such a way that the audience can get in touch with their own inner resources by seeing themselves in the volunteer's experience and deliberately break through.
Landmark Education is a great example of doing that really well -- but they also have you doing a tremendous amount of personal exercise work. (the trick is to not let the push for word-of-mouth marketing bother you. Repeat after me: "I'll pass.")
Just did a 3 day NLP/hypnosis/TIME Techniques seminar on presenting, and that was a great example of extremely helpful seminaring -- it was mostly review for me, but I still got a huge amount of new information, insight, strategy, confidence and motivation in standing up in front of a group powerfully and effectively -- just in time for a big presentation I'm giving tonight. Yay!
The most important self help seminar ever was when at age 11 I learned self-hypnosis from Frank Genco, the one-legged hypnotist. He was so funny and inspiring, and I credit him with really lighting the spark of personal development in me.
I think you, Tim, would put on an excellent seminar!
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