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The original course, known as est, was delivered by the company Erhard Seminars Training (est). Under the name The Forum, they were delivered by Werner Erhard and Associates. Also, the Landmark Forum, a program created by Erhard's former employees after purchasing his intellectual property, has had an influence on popular culture.
Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. (marketed as est, though often encountered as EST or Est) was an organization founded by Werner Erhard in 1971 that offered a two-weekend (6-day, 60-hour) course known officially as "The est Standard Training".
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] Since 1991, the Forum has been kept up to date and offered by Landmark Education. [4]
[2] [3] It replaced Erhard Seminars Training. Initially WE&A marketed and staged est training (in the form of the est seminars and workshops), but in 1984 the est training was replaced by WE&A with a briefer, a less authoritarian and more marketable program based on Werner Erhard's teachings and called The Forum. [3] [4]
Getting It is cited in background discussion of the est training: "Fenwick has pointed out that sophisticated assessment of individual psychopathology is beyond the competence and training of the est personnel; it is also outside the est value system, since the training is held to be almost universally beneficial."
Landmark Worldwide (known as Landmark Education before 2013), or simply Landmark, is an American employee-owned for-profit company that offers personal-development programs, with their most-known being the Landmark Forum. It is one of several large-group awareness training programs.
Their book mentions Erhard Seminars Training ("est") and similar undertakings, such as the Landmark Forum, Lifespring, Actualizations, MSIA/Insight and PSI Seminars. In Cults in our Midst, Singer differentiated between the usage of the terms cult and Large Group Awareness Training, [39] [40] [page needed] while pointing out some commonalities.
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.