Impact
Werner Erhard's work and ideas continue to inspire people to this day. This page is a collection of personal, academic and organizational websites and blogs by people engaged and enlivened by the work of Werner Erhard.
Werner Erhard in India November 2010: Werner Erhard delivered public lectures and also led a course titled “Leadership: An Ontological Model” for many of India's leading executives, presented by the IC Centre for Governance in Panchgani, under the sponsorship of MW Corp.
Werner Erhard Quotes: “Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such heroes, by men and women who will stand for the result while it is only a possibility – people who will act to make possibility real." - Werner Erhard
"Context is Decisive" - The Customer Blog: "Context shapes content (phenomena including thoughts, feelings, behaviours) and yet it is invisible to us most of the time. We only tend to see the hidden context when things break down dramatically – think of the financial crisis (before, after).... What does Werner Erhard mean when he says that “The context is decisive”? One way (and it is only one way) of thinking about context is to think of it as ‘playing field’ rather like a soccer pitch (complete with all that goes with it including the goals, line markings etc), a rugby pitch, an ice hockey rink…By saying “The context is decisive” Werner is pointing us towards the fact that a soccer pitch calls ‘a game of soccer’ into being. A rugby pitch calls ‘a game of rugby’ into being. A chessboard calls a ‘game of chess into being’. Yet he is saying more than that and to convey that I need to dive into a real life example...." Read more
Life By Design: History will likely remember Werner Erhard as an important 20th century self realization artisan who’s work shifted the paradigm for personal and global transformation.
Est (Erhard Seminars Training): A Reunion of Ideas - A place to read and post shares and stories about what was created in people's lives out of their experience of The est Training.
Werner Erhard and est: a collection of writings, photos, and videos about est
Werner Erhard Foundation: a collection of articles on the history and influence of the Werner Erhard Foundation
Erhard Seminars Training Reunion: In 1971, in a hotel ballroom in San Francisco over 35 years ago, transformation burst on to the national stage. Werner Erhard and his est Training brought to the forefront the ideas of transformation, personal responsibility, accountability, and possibility – and over the next decade, over a million people “Got it”.
Quotations from Werner Erhard: The place to find quotes by Werner Erhard such as, "Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such heroes, by men and women who will stand for the result while it is only a possibility – people who will act to make possibility real." or "You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference, to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work." -Werner Erhard Quotes
Werner Erhard: Historical articles, interviews and videos about Werner Erhard, transformation, the est training, leadership, performance and integrity.
Werner Erhard and Executive Coaching: In October 1987, Werner Erhard hosted a satellite broadcast with famous sports coaches of the time. The discussion purpose was to identify the uniform distinctions of coaching, regardless of the subject being coached. Jim Selman moderated the discussion and documented the outcome in an article called “Coaching and the Art of Mangagement” in 1989.
How Language Shapes Our World:
Lisa Rubinstein writes, "Where are you? While this seems like a fairly innocuous question, the answer holds a world. In his keynote speech at the Neuroleadership Summit in Los Angeles, Werner Erhard, one of the great contributors to modern management thinking, challenged us to distinguish how language shapes our world."
Werner Erhard: The Man Behind The Forum: Werner Erhard's innovative ideas have stimulated academic conversations at many Universities, most recently in the areas of integrity, leadership, and performance.
Jeff Bridges Works To End Hunger: From the days of doing Werner Erhard’s est Training and co-founding the End Hunger Network, which, among other things, put on the first Live Aid concert, to his role in 2010 as national spokesman for No Kid Hungry Campaign.
Werner Erhard Popularized Transformation and Personal Growth:Werner Erhard introduced the idea of transformation in the early 1970s through his est courses which also opened people’s minds to the possibility of their growth and potential. Werner Erhard’s work, along with other thinkers of the time, was “an interesting blend of philosophy, psychology, sociology, spirituality, and life affirming wisdom"
The Five Principles of Personal Transformation: Huffington Post writer Jinny Ditzler acknowldeges Werner Erhard's impact on her passion to provide people with a simple path to personal transformation.
Lynne Twist: "Everybody has milestones and epiphanies. Mine came in the EST training which I took in 1974 with Werner Erhard. It just revolutionized my life. I really came to understand that I could turn my life over to making a difference. That experience led me to be in the right place at the right time when The Hunger Project was born. I heard Werner Erhard say for the first time at a big meeting that he was taking a stand to end world hunger. My whole body started to shake, and I knew that that was why I was born, that that was what I came here to do. It was impractical because I was a very busy young mother, but it was a calling so remarkable that I could not deny it, and so I went with it."
Werner Erhard’s Ideas Used To Deal With Upsets: We’ve all had to deal with difficult people, like a tyrannical boss or an annoying coworker. And we have all have faced difficult situations like losing a job, having a child in trouble, or losing a loved one. How we deal with it says much about who we are. The author of this article offers suggestions on how to deal with upset, and includes a video from the 1973 episode of The Tonight Show with Werner Erhard and John Denver.
Werner Erhard’s Ideas at Work at Panda Express: Fast-food Chinese food chain Panda Express encourages utilizing the work of transformation and possibility in their management teams.
Green Faucet: The Three Laws of Performance, which was written by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan and inspired by Werner Erhard, is noted here as a useful tool to access a winning psychology.
Investors.com: Article on changing markets and business models that cites Three Laws of Performance, "Changing a company's business model these days involves identifying a need that consumers didn't even realize they had," says Steve Zaffron
John Wooden: Leadership In Coaching: In October 1987, Werner Erhard hosted a satellite broadcast with famous sports coaches of the time. The discussion purpose was to identify the uniform distinctions of coaching, regardless of the subject being coached.
est Training graduate, Jack Canfield quotes Werner Erhard in The Success Principles: Throughout Jack Canfield's best selling book, The Success Principles, there are numerous quotations from some of the world's most respected and accomplished individuals in our history.
Transformation - A Look Back at The est Training of 1980: by Richard A. Catalina, Jr.
This Is It: est, Twenty Years Later: Eliezer Sobel, "The purpose of the est training was to "transform your ability to experience living [my emphasis] so that the problems or situations in life that you are trying to solve or are putting up with will clear up just in the process of life itself." What would shift was how we experienced things, not the things themselves. Life would be exactly the same after the two-weekend course as before. The same bills would need to be paid, we'd be dealing with the same issues and problems. But we would experience them differently, "be with" them in such a way that they would essentially solve themselves, or at the very least be seen as "opportunities."
Dynamic Professional Women's Network: "Long ago at the EST training (given by Werner Erhard in the 70’s), I learned that, as humans, the creation of what we want goes in this order: BE, DO, HAVE..."
This Is Still It: est, Thirty Years Later: Eliezer Sobel "Werner Erhard was the founder of the est training, the original, two-weekend crash course in consciousness, popular during the 1970s, that became the prototype and inspiration for many human potential workshops that continue to this day....In the end for me, it was not about the teacher, but the teaching, and the teaching was sound: The passionate, full life we yearn for is not waiting for us somewhere, someday, in the future. In the very moment we truly relinquish waiting — for anything — we awaken to the extraordinary beauty and mystery of this: our life as it always already is."
Perspective - Thank You Werner: "Last night I watched “Transformation: the Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard.” The film included scenes of the est training in San Francisco from the early 1970s and recent interviews with Werner, as well as with former well-known participants, observers and critics. I “did the training” in early 1972 when Werner Erhard was still leading most of it. I also took several graduate seminars, the six-day course and a seminar leaders training program with him, so the film was very much déjà vu – and it brought home to me the enormity of Werner’s impact not only on my life and the lives of hundreds of thousands of others, but on the fabric of our culture today."
How Important is “Context” to Becoming Who You Want To Be? An R. Buckminster Fuller inspired game about making money and sense at the same time
Biography of Werner Erhard: The Source of Executive Coaching
Sustainability, Equity, Development: A Quest for Context and Meaning
What Does It Really Mean To Take A Stand: Sustainable Action Leadership
Patterns For Building Community: Chris Corrigan on Peter Block's Book, Community: The Structure of Belonging
Creating a Working America, an America That Works: Transformation
One of my Heroes is Werner Erhard:Blogger Linda Holt writes that Werner Erhard is one of the most brilliant thinkers and social innovators of our time and that his work continues to impact the world. She quotes Werner Erhard: "The possibility to create the context in which people’s lives really matter is undoubtedly the most profound opportunity available to anyone, ever."
Reflections on The Landmark Forum: In 2005 I took the Landmark Forum. It was an incredible three-day workshop. The Landmark Forum is an extension of the est seminars from the 1970s. Durning the Landmark Forum I learned to not fear what other people think of me.
Further Reflections on The Landmark Forum: The philosophical perspective of the Forum takes its inspiration from the brilliant work of Werner Erhard
Does Positive Energy + Positive Results? In order to create a new future, we need to resolve our past
Facet-Award.org: Lynne Twist on her experience of the est training (Erhard Seminars Training)
We Can Change The World: iMindShift with Steve Chandler
ワーナー・エアハード: Werner Erhard website in Japanese
SSRN-Barbados Group: Prawf'sBlog: Where Intellectual Honesty Has (Almost Always) Trumped Partisanship -- Albeit in a Kind of Boring Way Until Recently -- Since 2005
The Coach Connection: Brief History of Personal Coaching
Werner and Me: A Memoir and Current Journal
About Werner Erhard: Jane Self
Michael Jensen and Werner Erhard's Talk on Integrity: The Harvard Law Corporate Governance Blog
Werner Erhard's Still Got It: Personal Blog by Lynn
Werner Erhard speaks at 2009 NeuroLeadership Summit
Erhard Seminars Training
est in Australia
Werner Erhard & Associates
Benchmarks for Workplace Goals
Good Idea vs. Compelling Vision: Thoughts on Vision and Leadership
Visioning for CEOs: N2Growth Blog Where CEOs Come To Grow
The War Paradigm: Everything Under the Sun... To Start With!
Wins and Losses: Library Buzz
Jane Self: Jane Self's background as a journalist led her to write a book in 1992 about Werner Erhard and 60 Minutes Her investigative work required extensive traveling both nationally and internationally to research court documents and interview family members, former and current employees and participants.
Insights- Taking Your Life and Your Leadership to the Next Level: Bill Pullen
A Remarkable Day: Steve Farber, Extreme Leadership
Blissfull Bohemian: Personal Blog by Annie Coe
Being Judgmental Costs You MoreThan You Know: "I consider myself a very lucky person as I was privileged to participate in what was then known as the quintessential inquiry into to the nature of what it meant to be a human being. This was a 60 hour intensive look into the nature of who I was and at my relationship to others. In 1975 I was inspired to do this work and was fortunate to spend a good deal of time contributing back my services. I did the 'est' Training, as it was called then, a world class work of art created by Werner Erhard. It is my view that Werner Erhard opened the doors for millions to seek greater discovery."
Simply Success Life Coach: Iris Benrubi
Purpose and Aliveness: Akash
The est Transformation: Joe Vitale
Transformation: Shazamzing
Werner Erhard On Love: The Power of Now
Werner Erhard: White Light Black Light
Communication Breakdown: Blessed Madness - Outspoken for the Sake of Truth
The Other Side Of Fear Is A Miracle: Wealth Abundance and Joy Now
Who Am I This Time: Elizer Sobel
All Things Health and Spirit: John W. Travis, M.D.
The Coaching Paradigm - Way of Being, Way of Life: The Coaching Commons
Rock and Roll Lessons: Designed to Connect the Dots Between Business, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Philosophy, Political Science, Economics, and.....Rock & Roll
Werner Erhard Foundation: The Breakthrough Foundation
Motivating Quotes: Daily Motivating Quotes and Readings To Keep You Focused
Top Ten Rules of Management: Software and Beer, Steve Mitchell
Self Expression Quotes: Famous Quotes and Inspirational Quotes
Friends of Simplicity: John O'Leary
Greening My World: Awakening the Dreamer
Whale.com page on Werner Erhard
ThinkExist.com (quotes by Werner Erhard)
Upsets: Where do they Come From?: Living Awake
Werner Erhard Speaks to Kennedy School Students
Go Smell The Roses: An interview with Eliezer Sobel
Peter Gabriel speaks about Werner Erhard and the est Training: "It taught me all sorts of things, of which one was to be responsible for your life and who you are---don't blame others, don't be a victim....The other thing is to be authentic about who you are, how you feel, and what's going on...It's about being real. We spend so much of our lives not actually being who we are but who we imagine we ought to be."
Actor Barry Williams: The actor who played Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch credits Werner Erhard's est training with helping him become "grounded" after ending his role as Greg Brady of the Brady Bunch at age 19.
I got It! Did You?
Life By Design: “History will likely remember Werner Erhard as an important 20th century self realization artisan who’s work shifted the paradigm for personal and global transformation.”
Integral Options Cafe: Creating Leaders, An Ontological Model: "The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By “natural self-expression” we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. - from abstract of paper by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger"
Mark Jacobson, Artist, credits est Training’s influence
A Quote from Werner Erhard on Being OK: "If you could really accept that you weren’t ok, you could stop proving you were ok. If you could stop proving that you were ok you could get that it was ok not to be ok. If you could get that it was ok not to be ok you could get that you were ok the way you are. You’re ok, get it?" - Werner Erhard
Werner Erhard - As quoted in the blog juntamng: “One of the things I am really sure about is nothing will make you happy. Very few things I am really sure about. That is one of things I am really sure about. Nothing will make you happy. It may give you give you a jolt. It may make you gleeful but it isn’t going to make you happy. What does that mean nothing will make you happy.....You have to bring happiness to life. You don’t get happiness out of life. What is there to be happy about? Nothing. When you can be happy about nothing. Just be happy. You know “I am happy” – those words are sacred. It’s like a declaration, it’s like a place from which I come, it’s like a stand I take upon myslf. Its not I am pretending to be happy, it’s not I am acting happy. No. I am happy!” – Werner Erhard
Lightening Up and Letting Go - The est Training: "People who didn’t do the training talked long oppressive hours and about participants not being allowed to pee. People who did the training talked about huge, positive transitions in their lives.While the training was amazing the best part of EST was yet to come. People got hyped up and experienced presence in the training but the real revelation of EST was revealed in continuing education courses after the training...The EST Training made a bunch of us fearless and unstoppable. At one point Xerox commissioned a study to find out how EST got more and better work out of volunteers than they could get out of they employees no matter how much they paid them."
Werner Erhard, founder of The est Training,(est)
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