Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A; or as WEA, operated as a commercial entity from February 1981 until early 1991. It replaced Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. as the vehicle for marketing, selling and imparting the content of the est training, and offered what some people refer to as "personal-growth" programs. Initially WE&A; marketed and staged the est training (in the form of the est seminars and workshops), but in 1984 it introd...
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Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A; or as WEA, operated as a commercial entity from February 1981 until early 1991. It replaced Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. as the vehicle for marketing, selling and imparting the content of the est training, and offered what some people refer to as "personal-growth" programs. Initially WE&A; marketed and staged the est training (in the form of the est seminars and workshops), but in 1984 it introduced a modified, shortened and less intensive introduction to Werner Erhard's teachings, dubbed "The Forum".
In 1991 Erhard sold the assets of WE&A; to a group of employees, who later formed Landmark Education. Erhard then retired. and left the United States.
For additional Information, see Werner Erhard and est.
In their self-published book Self Realization: The est and Forum Phenomena in American Society, Espy M. Navarro and Robert Navarro stated:
What is a fact is that the collective experiences of over 1,400,000 human beings who have gone...
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