For more than 40 years he has been the creator of innovative ideas and models of individual, organizational, and social transformation. Werner Erhard's work has been the source of new perspectives for thinkers and practitioners in fields as diverse as business , education , philosophy , medicine , developing and emerging countries , conflict resolution , and community building. Werner Erhard has created new ways of seeing things in areas where progress has stalled or where breakthroughs would make a significant difference.
A majority of the Fortune companies, and many foundations and governmental entities, have used his ideas and models. Werner Erhard's work became known initially to the general public through applications derived from his models including The est Training which began in and was replaced in the mids by The Forum. This is not a sentiment that people, especially successful, well-educated people, express lightly. A hush came over the conference room as Father John Cullen, a priest from County Roscommon, Ireland, stood up to thank the man who had just led a week-long workshop on ministry for 28 people in Dublin, most of them priests and nuns.
We hope you have found in our presence, in our hearts especially, a safe house, and there will always be that safe house for you in Ireland. Thank you for creating a safe space in us to discover endless possibilities.
The priests, nuns, and lay religious leaders applauded. Some had tears in their eyes. Before the segment aired, Werner Erhard , who had set up his programs as a business, sold the firm that produced The Forum to the men and women who lead it they renamed the company Landmark Education , divested himself of his properties, most of which were put under lien to the government in a tax dispute, and went abroad with the press reporting inaccurately that he was on the lam from the IRS.
There were rumors that he had settled in Costa Rica or was giving seminars in Japan. The American religious leaders involved in sponsoring the workshop knew the charges, of course.
Werner Erhard disclaims both extremes. A tall, well-built, black-haired man, sharply dressed in a gray tweed jacket, gray slacks, and black shirt buttoned at the neck without a tie, Erhard is handsome. I took the low road. Born John Paul Rosenberg to an Episcopal mother and a Jewish father who became an evangelical Christian convert Erhard was raised in the Episcopal Church , he sold used cars in Philadelphia as Jack Rosenberg, married his high-school sweetheart, then abandoned her and four children for a blonde named stranger than fiction June Bryde.
Successful as a manager for encyclopedia sales, Erhard was also cramming for enlightenment by studying Gestalt and Zen; Plato; Freud; Jung; Heidegger; and Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Fritz Perls theorists of the human-potential movement.
Werner Erhard was also making enemies, beginning with L. Ron Hubbard, who was angry that the upstart salesman had taken Scientology courses and lifted some of its methodology. Abrasive as well as unconventional, with no academic credentials beyond a high-school diploma, Erhard managed to alienate roomfuls of strangers with a single talk.
But Erhard did — and earned their enmity. The Forum has regular hours and breaks. I am one of them. I did the est training in Boston in and found it exhilarating and liberating.
It helped me resolve issues left hanging from a six-year, five-day-a-week Freudian psychoanalysis that had brought on a hallucinatory breakdown and almost killed me. Even AMA-approved programs can be dangerous.
I went back to my work, church, and community with greater enthusiasm. I had been deeply involved in my own return to church and Christianity before doing est, and rumors of brainwashing and cults raised fears that my faith might be undermined.
Pennington learned that she had left her home and religion at age Two years prior to their meeting she had done the est training, and she said it opened up her life. She reconciled with her family and her church. In fact, she decided to become a Trappist nun. I was impressed by his approach, and he asked me to be on the advisory board of the Hunger Project, which I agreed to if I could see everything they did, and he said okay.
The practice is recommended for 20 minutes twice a day, morning and evening. This paper is based on slide talks presented to the general public. Those talks and this paper present a way of accessing life, living, and who one is for oneself, based on studying masters e. Like masters of any specialized area, while masters of life are innately ordinary people, they do perceive and comprehend life experience life — the world, others, and themselves — differently than most of us do.
As a result, they interact with the world, others, and themselves differently than most of us do. And, it is the way in which they interact with life and with themselves that makes them extraordinarily effective in dealing with life while enjoying an exceptionally high quality of life. This paper spells out the way masters of life access life, living, and themselves, and does so in words that make mastery of life accessible to the rest of us ordinary people.
Werner Erhard and Professor Michael Jensen define integrity and discuss their research linking integrity and personal and corporate performance. They address integrity in a developing academic paper, whose primary purpose is to present a positive model of integrity that provides a powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. This academic paper was initially presented at the Gruter Institute Conference on Values in June Since then it has been presented over 40 times, most recently at Washington University Olin School of Business March Jensen write in their abstract: "We argue here that a large amount of the damage inflicted on people and organizations is caused by actions of individuals that are not in their own self interest.
That is, people consistently impose costs on themselves, their loved ones, friends, associates, partners, employers and the public by actions that are not in their own self interest.
In this presentation we focus on the integrity issues that cause huge problems in the lives of most individuals and to every one we come in contact with. This presentation is based on the work of Werner Erhard and Michael C. Over people attended the sold-out event. They also gave the presentation to sold-out audiences at the University of Chicago Mandel Hall 3 May - over participants , and at New York University Skirball Center 5 November - over participants.
This actionable access to the source of performance opens up a new realm of opportunity for study and research, and for new and more effective interventions, applications, and practices for improving individual, group, and organizational performance. The Barbados Group is an international group of scholars, consultants and practitioners who were brought together by Werner Erhard. The Group's specific intention is to create a new paradigm of performance.
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