Cool story, thanks yo. Based on your previous stories, I never pictured you getting a GM. How did you manage to earn back your trust? It mustn't have been easy.
Now that you brought it up, that "elanifyed" vocab became a nightmare (but funny at the same time) after leaving Elan, because since I wasn't quite fluent in English before Elan, I had a hard time distingüishing between the elan technical terms and the expressions of English.
Anyways, they'd always give 1 minute VR's at my house, like:
"Fine, get on top of it! Make sure you don't do this kind of stuff, this kind of stuff takes away, just take a look at it"!
Not to mention the half-minute blasts. There were Coordinators that'd actually take their time to give the person some insight in their VR's and talking to's, but most of the time, there was too much pressure into getting everything done as fast as possible.
Quite frankly, I think Elan emphasized the functional procedures, instead of providing the kids with the emotional support that they deserved. Sometimes all it took was just to give the kid some attention, really. The corner and GM's were the best way of getting "all eyes on me", you know what I mean?
The high strength were always so busy with the functional aspects of their positions that they'd barely have time to "relate" to the new resident who's feeling homesick and confused or the shotdown who's having a hard time and really needed a friend.
When I actually got to a High Strength position, I guess I found an escape in just "functioning my feelings away". Functioning would keep me from thinking. It's my thinking that'd get me in trouble most of the times because Elan doesn't want you to think, they want you to do as you're told. Remember the philosophies: "Blind faith", "Act as if", "Fake it til you make it"... I mean, think about it.
Peace!