Conversations For Transformation

Essays By Laurence Platt

Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

And More


Werner Erhard Video Experience

Cowboy Cottage, East Napa, California, USA

March 5, 2008



This essay, Werner Erhard Video Experience, is the first in the quadrilogy The Werner Erhard Experience:
  1. Werner Erhard Video Experience
  2. Werner Erhard Photo Experience
  3. Werner Erhard Quote Experience
  4. Werner Erhard Paper Experience
in that order.

It embeds a catalog of videos of Werner with permission, and with thanks to Robyn Symon and to Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership and to the Friends of Werner Erhard who posted them on YouTube.com. I promise to update them whenever new videos of Werner become available.

I am indebted to Gregg Eller and to Robyn Symon and to Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership and to John Denver and to Richard Buckminster Fuller and to Tom Snyder and to Charlie Rose and to Sandy Baron and to The Friends Of Werner Erhard and to the graduates of the est  training and The Landmark Forum and to Werner Erhard and Associates who inspired this conversation, and to Eric Edberg and to Cessilia Park and to Derek Dearden and to Liz Lundberg and to Russ Rosa and to Andrew Goetz and to Dianne Morrison and to Nancy Scott who contributed material.




Transformation is being in face to face conversations for transformation with people. When you're not being in face to face conversations for transformation with people, you're no longer transformed.

Transformation shows up in the domain of speaking  and listening  ie in the domain of the spoken  word. The written  word including this Conversations For Transformation internet series of essays can call forth only a close approximation  to transformation. The written word ie the domain of writing  and reading  can point to transformation and can tease out transformation. But it isn't transformation.

What, then, can be said for the recorded  word ie the domain of videography, photography, and audiography?

Videos, photographs, and audios can also point to transformation. They can also tease out transformation. But they, also, aren't transformation.

That said, in this catalog of videos of Werner there's an opportunity not only to hear what he's speaking about but also to listen to what he sounds  like, to listen where his voice comes from, to listen where he  comes from, to watch his facial expression, and to get the way he's being who he's being  while he's being with the people he's being with.

There's a powerful, rich opportunity here to experience  Werner Erhard.

Here are links to the Werner Erhard videos:
  1. Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard
  2. Latest -I: Werner Erhard and Associates: A Brief Look
  3. Werner Erhard at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership
  4. Werner Erhard with John Denver on The Tonight Show
  5. Werner Erhard with Richard Buckminster Fuller
  6. Werner Erhard: A You And Me World
  7. Werner Erhard: A You And Me World II
  8. Werner Erhard: A You And Me World III
  9. Werner Erhard: Context
  10. Werner Erhard: Making A Difference
  11. Latest -II: Werner Erhard: Point Of View
  12. Werner Erhard: Purpose
  13. Werner Erhard: Potential
  14. Werner Erhard: Responsibility
  15. Werner Erhard: The est  Training
  16. Werner Erhard: The est  Training II
  17. Werner Erhard: The est  Training III
  18. Werner Erhard: The est  Training IV
  19. LATEST: Werner Erhard: The est  Training V
  20. Werner Erhard: The Forum


Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3mYoEYRsw


Film preview and interview by Robyn Symon - 2006

Werner sharing his extraordinary experience of transformation on the Golden Gate Bridge in 1971 and how he enrolled his staff in his intention to start est.

Time 1:52

Film review by Laurence Platt - June 28, 2007


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Werner Erhard and Associates: A Brief Look


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt_RuSvFvS0


Film of conversations, est  training, Six Day course by Quest - 1982

Werner working with Roger Dillon, Steve Zaffron, Stewart Esposito, Dan Alpert, Warren Bennis, Vic Gioscia, Rudy Barbosa, Fernando Flores, Jack Mantos, Prema Elvin, course participants, est  graduates, and more.

Time 5:48


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Werner Erhard at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwQr_BJrHJ8


Conversation - 11:30am to 1:00pm, Thursday October 15, 2009

Werner Erhard presenting his latest work "Why We Do What We Do: A New Model Providing Actionable Access to the Source of Performance" at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership.

Time 1:09:40


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Werner Erhard with John Denver on The Tonight Show


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRiirdNVils


Interview by John Denver - September 24, 1973

Werner laying bare what people want in life, and demonstrating dealing with what hits on you in life, in an intimate conversation about aliveness, love, and the est  training with award winning singer, movie star, est  graduate, The Hunger Project co-founder, and The Tonight Show guest host John Denver.

Time 9:54


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Werner Erhard With Richard Buckminster Fuller


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02EkQIu070


Interview - 1979

Werner supporting Richard Buckminster Fuller inquiring into nothing less than "How do you make the world work?" in this People Are Talking  television interview.

Time 3:46


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Werner Erhard: A You And Me World


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvth1LlaAS0


Event and interview - 1977

Werner bringing forth the abstracts of a "you and  me" world as distinct from a "you or  me" world during the Being Ready For The Rest Of Your Life  event and in a subsequent San Francisco AM  television interview.

Time 1:38


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Werner Erhard: A You And Me World II


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZhpJFYrM4


Interview - 1977

Werner describing the ramifications of a "you and me" world pragmatically in more footage from the San Francisco AM  television interview.

Time 1:54


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Werner Erhard: A You And Me World III


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNLuJ1wMGOU


Interview - 1977

Werner articulating measurable distinctions of a "you and me" world in continuing footage from the San Francisco AM  television interview.

Time 1:42


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Werner Erhard: Context


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psxsVh90Rbw


Interview by Tom Snyder

Werner asserting context  as a stand for life in part II of this interview with Tom Snyder.

Time 3:13


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Werner Erhard: Making A Difference


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-XQkWHqtHU


Event - 1979

Werner distinguishing making a difference  in the A Shot Heard 'Round The World  event with Richard Buckminster Fuller.

Time 0:34


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Werner Erhard: Point Of View


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP4iN5qr4uU


est  training

Werner fleshing out your point of view as put together by you in this quintessential and poignant moment in the est  training.

Time 0:42


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Werner Erhard: Purpose


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQkV5NTah4Q


Interview by Tom Snyder

Werner considering purpose  as something people create  for themselves rather than as something people discover  for themselves in part III of this interview with Tom Snyder.

Time 0:59


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Werner Erhard: Potential


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hz4oA35eV8


Interview by Charlie Rose

Werner postulating you find out in the Forum you're not using your full potential the more successful you become with iconic syndicated Public Broadcasting Service late night talk show host Charlie Rose.

Time 1:03


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Werner Erhard: Responsibility


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THpIvzAi8XI


Interview by Charlie Rose

Werner discussing taking personal responsibility for one's life ie becoming equal to one's condition in life with iconic syndicated Public Broadcasting Service late night talk show host Charlie Rose.

Time 1:25


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Werner Erhard: The est  Training


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akEAHT4qI20


Interview by Sandy Baron - 1974

Werner offering the est  training training in a light hearted interview with AM New York  television reporter and est  graduate Sandy Baron.

Time 3:02


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Werner Erhard: The est  Training II


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f17cu-TS-Tk


Interview

Werner revealing the est  training in which people experienced life's emptiness  and meaninglessness  which is existentialism's end point, then went beyond that to enormous freedom.

Time 1:05


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Werner Erhard: The est  Training III


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMeXmFVq6cY


Interview - 1979

Werner detailing the method of the est  training, motivating for nurturing success, and making relationships work in exclusive footage from the People Are Talking  television interview with Richard Buckminster Fuller.

Time 3:08


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Werner Erhard: The est  Training IV


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMfTllm19AQ


Interview by Tom Snyder

Werner looking at the est  training and answering what part, if any, his personal story  plays in it working in part I of this interview with Tom Snyder.

Time 1:40


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Werner Erhard: The est  Training V


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPBzmiS5dKA


Interviews

Werner spelling out the possibility of the est  training in television interviews with Elle Dylan (You, February 1980), Dinah Shore (Dinah!, June 1976), People Are Talking  (December 1979), KHOU-TV News  (November 1983), Weekday  (filmed at Boston University, January 1982).

Time 7:43


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Werner Erhard: The Forum


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDTPZ2sWC4Q


Interview by Charlie Rose

Werner clarifying the method of the Forum as distinct from yet inclusive of common sense  with iconic syndicated Public Broadcasting Service late night talk show host Charlie Rose.

Time 2:07


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