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1971 – Erhard Seminars Training Inc, first est Training held in San Francisco, California; 1973 – The Foundation for the Realization of Man – incorporated as a non-profit foundation in California (subsequently the name of the foundation was changed to the est Foundation in 1976, and in 1981 to the Werner Erhard Foundation)
The 1977 film Semi-Tough satirized Erhard and the est Training, through the fictional "Bismark Earthwalk Action Training," in which Bert Convy portrayed a character said to have been a parody of Erhard. Diana Ross and Joel Schumacher, who had both taken the est training, incorporated Werner Erhard's teachings into the 1978 musical film, The Wiz.
A former salesman, training manager and executive in the encyclopedia business, [1] [2] Erhard created the Erhard Seminars Training (est) course in 1971. [3] est was a form of Large Group Awareness Training, [4] [5] and was part of the Human Potential Movement. [6] est was a four-day, 60-hour self-help program given to groups of 250 people at a ...
Werner Hans Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg; September 5, 1935) [1]: 7 is an American lecturer known for founding est (offered from 1971 to 1984). [1]: 14 [2] In 1985, he replaced the est Training with a newly designed program, the Forum. [3]
As part of the Human Potential Movement, which was centered in San Francisco, Werner Erhard created and ran the est (Erhard Seminars Training) system from 1971 to 1984, which promoted the idea that individuals are empowered when they take personal responsibility for all events in their lives, both good and bad. In 1985, Erhard modified est to ...
Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg), a California-based former salesman, training manager and executive in the encyclopedia business, [2] [3] created the Erhard Seminars Training (est) course in 1971. [4] est was a form of Large Group Awareness Training, [5] [6] and was part of the Human Potential Movement.
Pressman also describes the successor company to Est, Werner Erhard and Associates, and Erhard's decision to sell the "technology" of his course The Forum to his employees and to leave the United States. The book's epilogue includes a firsthand account of a Landmark Forum seminar led by the former Est-trainer Laurel Scheaf in 1992. [6] [7] [8 ...
Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A or as WEA, was a commercial personal development program which operated from 1984 until early 1991. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It replaced Erhard Seminars Training .