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est*; 60 Hours That Transform Your Life
by Bry, Adelaide
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0060105623
- ISBN 13
- 9780060105624
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. George Thomson (Author photograph). x, 181, [1] pages. Shorthand: A Glossary. Some front end weakness has been addressed through addition of a small amount of glue. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. est stands for Erhard Seminars Training. A graduate of Erhard Seminars Training combines her own recollections and evaluations with those of others in a survey of the bases, methods, and benefits of the increasingly popular human potential movement. Adelaide Bry was a psychotherapist who, in addition to conducting a clinical practice, ran frequent workshops in Transactional Analysis for business groups. She was also a highly-respected and best-selling author in the field of psychology. Werner Hans Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg; September 5, 1935) is an American author and lecturer known for founding est (offered from 1971 to 1984). In 1985, Erhard replaced the est Training with a newly designed program, the Forum. Since 1991, the Forum has been kept up to date and offered by Landmark Education. He has written, lectured, and taught on self-improvement. In 1977, Erhard, with the support of John Denver, Robert W. Fuller and others, founded The Hunger Project, an NGO accredited by the United Nations in which more than four million people have participated with the goal of establishing "the end of hunger as an idea whose time has come". In 1991, Erhard retired from business and sold his existing intellectual property to his employees, who then adopted the name Landmark Education, renamed in 2013 Landmark Worldwide. Erhard Seminars Training (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". The purpose of the training is to help one to recognize that the situations, which seem to be holding them back in life, are working themselves out within the process of life itself. The seminar aimed to "transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with clear up just in the process of life itself". An est website claims that the training "brought to the forefront the ideas of transformation, personal responsibility, accountability, and possibility". Est seminars operated from late 1971 to late 1984 and spawned a number of books from 1976 to 2011. Est has been featured in a number of films and television shows, including the critically acclaimed spy-series The Americans, broadcast from 2013 to 2018. Est represented an outgrowth of the Human Potential Movement of the 1960s through to the 1970s. The est Standard Training program consisted of two weekend-long workshops with evening sessions on the intervening weekdays. Workshops generally involved about 200 participants and were initially led by Erhard and later by people trained by him. Ronald Heifetz, founder of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University, called est "an important experience in which two hundred people go through a powerful curriculum over two weekends and have a learning experience that seemed to change many of their lives." Trainers confronted participants one-on-one and challenged them to be themselves rather than to play a role that had been imposed on them by the past. Many participants reported experiencing powerful results through their participation in the est training, characterized by Eliezer Sobel as perceived "dramatic transformations in their relationships with their families, with their work and personal vision, or most important, with the recognition who they truly were in the core of their beings". One study of "a large sample of est alumni who had completed the training at least 3 months before revealed that "the large majority felt the experience had been positive (88%), and considered themselves better off for having taken the training (80%)"
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86376
- Title
- est*; 60 Hours That Transform Your Life
- Author
- Bry, Adelaide
- Illustrator
- George Thomson (Author photograph)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0060105623
- ISBN 13
- 9780060105624
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Self-Help; Self-Improvement, Group Dynamics, Erhard Seminars Training, Father Joseph Brendler, Richard Dawes, Werner Erhard, Volunteering, Curriculum, Group Participation, Self-Actualization
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