No, it is far from just "raising hands".
I believe that motivating started in the St Pete seed while I was there. I went to the Ft lauderdale Seed after graduating and don't remember the extreme motivating behavior we were forced to participate in at the Seed St Pete
The kids, Us, were told we must "motivate our desire to be called on" and were given constant raps on why this was important. The boys started waiving one hand frantically and snapping their index finger against their middle finger. Soon whole sections of the Seed seemed out of control as one kid tried to outdo the other. The girls developed their own style which was slightly different.I saw a gradual but drastic change in group behavior that became more and more extreme as the kids tried to appease their captors by "motivating" their desire to be called upon.
The teenage Seedling graduates that became the original staff members of the straight took this behavior with them and over the years it became more and more extreme.
You can view the 31 year development of motivating at a video of SAFE, a direct linear descendent of the Seed.
click this link and then watch 28 daze, a two part news report on SAFE.
http://fornits.com/anonanon/video/ Safe used to be a Straight branch, and as you know, Straight was just a spinoff of the Seed. There are as we speak the seed rules, the three signs, the seven steps, all on the wall of SAFE, and kids have open meeting and public confessionals and all the other Seed alchemy that didn't work then and doesn't work now.
While you are in the video fault, may I suggest you view "Bingo" and some of the other videos? Enjoy.
And next time you are in Ft Lauderdale, drop Art Barker a line and Congratulate him on 31 years of "motivating". His contributions to the drug war were far reaching and had heavy impacts on many lives. He still lives in a bubble and believes he had a 90% sucess rate, a dubious claim with no facts to back it up.