Werner Erhard

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Werner Hans Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg; September 5, 1935) is an American author and lecturer best known for founding est, which flourished from 1971 to 1984.

He has written, lectured, and taught self-improvement. Erhard started The Hunger Project in 1977, an NGO accredited by the United Nations, in which more than 4 million people have participated in the goal of establishing "the end of hunger as an idea whose time has come"; he now consults occasionally.

Early life

6 John Paul Rosenberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 1935. 6 He left Judaism for a Baptist mission before joining his wife in the Episcopal Church. 6 6 They decided that their son should choose their faith if they were old enough. 6 He chose to be baptized in Episcopal Church, spent eight years as an acolyte, and has been an Episcopalian ever since.

Rosenberg graduated from Norristown High School in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he received the English award in his senior year. 29, 29 He and his future wife Patricia Fry (30), who married on September 26, 1953, had four children.

Rosenberg worked in various auto dealerships from the early 1950s to 1970 (beginning at a Ford dealership where he was trained by Lee Iacocca, then Lincoln Mercury, and eventually Chevrolet), as well as a stint with a nearly defunct medium-duty industrial equipment company that became profitable under his direction.

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Rosenberg, a 1960 native of Philadelphia, and their children with June Bryde,: 57, changed his name to "Werner Hans Erhard" in honor of West German economic minister Ludwig Erhard and physicist Werner Heisenberg's visit to Indianapolis; he borrowed the name from Esquire magazine articles. Ellen Virginia Erhard, 57-58, was given the 57-58 Bryde nickname. 53 The Erhards immigrated to St. Louis, where Werner worked as a vehicle salesman.

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Initially, Patricia Rosenberg and their four children depended on welfare and support from family and friends. Patricia Rosenberg divorced Erhard for desertion and remarried after five years without being in touch for five years.

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Erhard's first wife and family contacted him and said, "give the children and college education," and they repaid Patricia's parents for their financial assistance. 335 people's extended family underwent esthetization from 1973 to 1975, and Patricia and his younger siblings took part in the est group.

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Career

Erhard began offering correspondence courses in the Midwest in 1961. He later moved to Spokane, Washington,: 85, where he worked at Encyclopdia Britannica's "Great Books" program as an area training manager. Erhard began working at the Parents Magazine Cultural Institute, a division of W.R. Grace & Co. in January 1962, and later moved to San Francisco and Los Angeles in the spring of 1963. 82–106 Parents moved him to Arlington, Virginia, as the southeast division manager, but after a dispute with the company president, he returned to his old position as the west coast division manager in San Francisco. 117-138 Over the next two years, Erhard continued to teach Parents many people who became instrumental in est, including Elaine Cronin, Gonneke Spits, and Laurel Scheaf.

Erhard, who was largely self-educated, was influenced by or worked closely with philosophers, leadership, and industrial scientists, as well as Zen masters. "He had no formal education in anything," philosopher Michael E. Zimmerman said of Erhard, "but he knew stuff as well as anyone I'd ever seen," the philosopher wrote, and I've been around a lot of smart people in academia." During his stay in St. Louis, he read two books that had a major influence on him: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937), and Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (1960). 122 When a member of Parents Magazine introduced him to Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, two of the Human Potential Movement's most influential figures, he became more concerned with personal development than company success.

Erhard became close friends with Watts after heading to Sausalito, who introduced him to the difference between mind and self; later, he attended seminars by Alan Watts, a Western interpreter of Zen Buddhism who introduced him to the difference between mind and self; 117–138 Erhard traveled in Japan with Zen rshi Yamada Mumon. Werner Erhard: The Transformation of a Man, the Founding of Est (1978), Bartley's biography includes Zen as an essential contribution that "created the space for" est.

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In 1967, Erhard attended the Dale Carnegie Course. He was so impressed by it that he compelled his employees to attend the course and began to imagine designing a course of his own. Erhard's research into a variety of fields, including Encounter, Transactional Analysis, Enlightenment Intensive, Subud, and Scientology, has spanned the years.

Erhard began teaching Mind Dynamics in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1970. 136–137 Mind Dynamics' directors eventually accepted him into their partnership, but Erhard refused the invitation, saying he'd rather design his own seminar curriculum, which was the first activity of which he started in October 1971. Mind Dynamics, est., and LifeSpring, according to James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton, "striking" similarities exist, as both used "authoritarian trainers who enforce numerous laws," demand applause from participants, and de-emphasize reason in favour of emotion. Graduates are also recruited heavily for the businesses, thus minimizing marketing expenses, according to the authors.

Beginning in 1971, Est. Short for Erhard Seminars Education and later Latin for "it is"), the initial curriculum of which was titled "The Est Training" began in 1971. The purpose of this program was to change the way one sees and makes sense of life so that the situations one was trying to avoid or coping with are clearer. The point was to allow participants to be who they wanted to be, while still improving their efficiency and the quality of their lives. In essence, the est Training was experiential and transformational.

The workshops were not available until 1984, when the Forum took over the est training. 900,000 people had completed the est training as of 1984. After the human potential movement itself seemed to be defunct" and a form of "Socratic interrogation," American ethicist, scholar, and historian Jonathan D. Moreno has characterized the est training as "the most significant cultural event after the human potential movement seemed to have been drained." Erhard challenged participants to be themselves and live in the present rather than being forced to play a part in their history, and to shift beyond their current positions of view into one in which they could observe their own position. "You're going to see that things begin to clear up, not in the process of life itself," Robert Hargrove said.

In October 1971, the first estrangement course in San Francisco, California, was held. Erhard founded all of the early est courses himself, but by the mid-1970s, he had recruited ten others (doctors, attorneys, and businesswomen) to do so. 484 Est centers opened in Los Angeles, Aspen, Honolulu, New York, and many other cities, and celebrities and experts such as leadership and business analyst Warren Bennis, philosopher Walter Kaufmann, economist and businesswoman Julia Murray, actor and businesswoman Arianna Huffington, musician and peace activist John Denver, and actress Valerie Harper welcomed them.

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The Werner Erhard Foundation was founded in the early 1970s with the intention of "providing financial and organizational assistance to individuals and groups involved in charitable and educational pursuits; study, communication, education, and academic pursuits in the fields of individual and social change and human well-being." The foundation funded projects that changed what is possible for humanity, such as The Hunger Project, The Mastery Foundation, The Holiday Project, and the Youth at Risk Program, which are still in existence. In addition, it produced papers by scholars and humanitarians, including Dalai Lama and Buckminster Fuller, as well as hosting an annual conference on theoretical physics, a field in which Erhard was particularly interested. The annual conference was designed to give physicists a chance to discuss what they were working on before they were published, and it was attended by Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Leonard Susskind.

Erhard's 1980s founded the Forum, which began in 1985. During this time, he also hosted a series of seminars on science, economics, sports, and the arts, which included interviews with contemporary thinkers in science, economics, sports, and the performing arts on topics including creativity, survival, and budget.

In October 1987, Erhard conducted a televised broadcast with sports coaches John Wooden, Red Auerbach, Tim Gallwey, and George Allen to address the principles of coaching across many disciplines. They were trying to determine boundaries in coaching regardless of the subject being taught. Jim Selman moderated the discussion and reported the result in an article titled "Coaching and the Art of Management" in 1989.

Erhard continued to make public appearances after resigning from Werner Erhard & Associates. "Whatever Happened to Werner Erhard?" CNN's Larry King Live's December 8, 1993 episode. Erhard began by satellite from Moscow, where he was working with the All Union Knowledge Society and a select group of the newly elected Russian parliament members. He worked on peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland during this period, as well as with author Peter Block on several occasions.

Erhard has devoted his time to academic research, writing, and spreading his thoughts on ethics, leadership, success, and change. With Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron, he wrote a paper on honor with him. Bartley Madden, a writer, wrote about Erhard Jensen and their colleagues' latest model of individual, group, and organizational success, saying that it "emphasizes how one's worldview influences and constrains individual's perceptions." The paradigm shift takes one directly to the source of results, which is not accessible simply by describing results by linear cause and effect analysis"; "the source of results resides in how behaviors correlate naturally with the way things happen," and "how words are reported and unsaid in interviews) plays a key role in understanding how outcomes develop, and is therefore instrumental in improving results."

Erhard's current research focuses on the creation and enhancement of the course "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model," which he and his colleagues have taught at several universities and is taught by 34 professors at their own universities. According to Financial Times managing editor Andrew Hill, the course contributes to business education and furthers academic study.

Erhard is the author of Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, a book about economist Friedrich Hayek edited by Robert Leeson.

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