Jon Correll

I cannot thank Werner, my trainers, my assisting, enough for giving me the experience that ultimately gave me the tools to become more successfull than i ever thought possible. Not a day goes by that I don’t reflect on some aspect of my daily life and what got from est. Thank you Werner for letting me take care of your wardrobe and supervise the training.

Faith Walmer (Adler)

Hi all! It’s so wonderful to see that this site exists. I did the est training in 1974 and like so many others, had the incredible opportunity to meet myself. I was on staff at “CSB” in San Francisco from 1979 to 1992 and I’m hoping to reconnect with some of my old friends. I live an amazing life and get immense joy out of the contribution I am able to make to others. Does anyone else remember the wonderful “Be Withs” we used to have with Werner? My son, who is now 32 used to crawl on Werner’s lap during some of those wonderful events. Enjoy!

charlie hayes
www.theeternalstate.org
To meet Werner Erhard is the flesh was, for me, a singular happening in which the realization was clear and obvious there this was a man with none of the standard “limits” to what as possible. When Werner had barely begun a Motorsports team and wanted me to be a part of that, I lept at that chance since it meant I’d get to hang out with the Chief. Most of us who have worked with him would give up many better benefits with other teams for a chance at THIS team…. this opportunity. I had the privilige of coaching Werner to drive racing cars along with a number of other coaches and mentors,top drawer RACERS all. That few months in 1978 were a season in heaven, And The Chief’s record was stunning; going from a back marker performance early on, by the Batuinal Runoffs. Erhard trained and developed himself HARD and gained the great skill to out-drive and out-qualify a strong field of far more experienced drvers.

Harvey Austin
www.HarveyAustin.com
I cried for a month afterwards. I would cry in my car to the hopspital, dry my eyes, make rounds on my patients, then cry all the way to the next hospital. I had just graduated from the second Washington DC training in October, 1975 with Stewart Esposito. Two weekends that changed my life forever. Randy McNamara once said, when I asked him what he got out of est, “Oh, nothing. Just my life.” Yeah. Well, me, too, Randy. While I had reached a climbed the ladder of success in medicine, the lump of solid fear in my chest had never gone away. I wept because I had finally seen that I had accumulated all the symbols of success but had none of the experience of success. Within a year I had sold everything I owned, provided for my ex-wife and children, gave up all my money, and left medicine, traveling in a camper in a pickup truck for two years. Facing my truth and starting newly at midlife … at the age of 40… has made all the difference. Literally the road less travelled. I made a vow that I would never again do anything I did not want to do. And I have not I consider that, like the old adage, my life began at 40. These thirty three years since est have been everything I could have dreamed. I went back into medicine and started a new practice of medicine in the Washington DC area - the Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery - doing exactly what I loved. I have remarried and my life is now a joy. My life is full, the fear is totally gone and I love my life and live a life I have created for myself. Werner,my friend, thank you. Nothing in my life, neither my four years of college, nor my MD degree has made the impact of those two weekends. I love you.

Fred Zurofsky

Did the May B 1975 training and later followed on with The Forum up to two sessions of The Wisdom Course. Upon viewing the videos I got clear that I wasn’t a freak because I was in that place where I got, REALLY got that it is all empty and meaningless. What I also got was the idea that this is the place to create and build from. I’m looking forward to recreating my future from this ‘Empty Space’ Thanks for this website where I can go and get refreshed and motivated again. Fred Zurofsky

Thank you, Werner. It was so fun to reminisce and to reconnect to those days. I did the communication workshop first, in August of 1980. It changed my life in ways unimaginable. Then the est training in January, 1982, the Forum in August, 1989, and the 6-Day in January, 1990. My life has never been the same since my first experience of est. I am grateful every day.

Because of est I made friends for the first time. Before est I would not seek friendships with anyone I thought was better than me. After est, everyone became a potential friend. If I saw an interesting, smart, involved, beautiful or handsome person, and I wanted to get to know that person, I would go introduce myself and ask about them. I can talk to anyone now and have many long-time friends of all ages, races, sexes, weights and intelligences. My life is so much bigger!

Because of est, I started a nonprofit to provide free psychosocial support to cancer patients and their families. This nonprofit has been operating lovingly for thirteen years and has changed the idea of cancer in my community. People who do not even know that I had anything to do with the beginning tell me about this wonderful organization they found which has helped them live their lives fully even though they have cancer.

Because of est, I have been able to be present at the deaths of many friends and family. It is my calling to be with those who are dying. Me, who was so scared of death that I couldn’t even enter a hospital, much less work in one (which I did as a patient representative). Me, who was so scared of death that I suffered anxiety attacks. After est, I not only could be in the presence of dying, but knew that was exactly where I was meant to be. My fear just disappeared.

Because of est I got to hug my mom and dad and have a totally different relationship with them than I had ever had before. I loved them so much, and I knew they loved me, too. I was able to be with both of them as they died and know I was a friend and a comfort. That could not have happened without est.

Because of est, I am an idea machine. Tons of ideas just pop into my head. Things that make sense. Things that make businesses. Oh, and my husband, too. He did the Forum in 1989 and won his company’s $10,000 award the next year. He was a chemical engineer in research and development and he said the Forum cleared away what he used to consider barriers to solutions. After the Forum, he knew possibility. It was amazing.

Because of est, I can say I am sorry and ask for forgiveness. What a relief. And what a shortcut to better relationships.

There is so much more that has come into my life because of est.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Sue

Emil
emilasauer.blogspot.com

Hi Everybody ,
What I got from the est training was #1 that even though I am naturally a shy person I can be at any time a fully selfexpressed person with people.

Emil 1982 Gaduate

Michael Anthony

Just posting up here to see if anyone out there I have lost touch with is out there and still boogie-ing! I sometimes think I got stuck on the page that said “let the good times roll,” ha! Michael London Royal garden Hotel London, training two. Actually forgotten the date!

Pierre Barreau

The est Training was one of the most powerful experiences in my life. It connected me on a deeper level to the woman I married and my approach to all people in my life. Its impact had taken me to dare and do things I never imagined were possible for me. The experience of est was for me so much more mind expanding than that of “the Forum”. Why change something that did the job? Pierre Barreau

Wayne Davis
www.thelakesideloft.com

On the last Sunday (nov, 1980) I was able to mumble “God damn [expletive] father…” And today I own my great strengths to my Dad kicking me out at age 13, homeless, forging parental signatures to stay in HS, went on to complete the Ph.D became an successful Professor. Thanks Dad and thanks Werner!

Love, Wayne