Conversations For Transformation: Essays Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

Conversations For Transformation

Essays By Laurence Platt

Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

And More




Werner Erhard Photo Experience

Cowboy Cottage, East Napa, California, USA

March 12, 2008



This essay, Werner Erhard Photo Experience, is the second in the octology The Werner Erhard Experience: Conversations For Transformation receives its two hundred thousandth view with the publishing of Werner Erhard Photo Experience.

I am indebted to Dennis Caudill and to Wernher Krutein and to Lyn Malone and to Kenneth Yamamoto and to Wayne Williams and to Anita Lynn Erhard and to Randy Green and to Fred Ortiz and to Robert Buelteman Jr and to Keth Luke and to Angelo D'Amelio and to Phyllis Ford and to Tom Fitzsimmons and to Silent Sensei and to Daniel McAlpine and to Michael Schropp and to James Wilson and to Sudan Bey and to Ray "Scotty" Morris and to Mehul Mehta and to Ashish Vidyarthi and to Commander Dreyvan Dayse, Indian Navy (ret), and to Steve Zaffron and to Gurmeet Khurana and to Chaitanya Chaddha and to Suzi Pomerantz and to Jo Fielder and to Elizabeth Handy and to Yousuf Karsh and to Michael Shaun Conaway and to Gonneke Spits and to Barry Siegel and to Ivan Vrhnjak and to Howard Hamburg and to Chris Wesselman and to Nick Freeman and to Friends Of Werner Erhard and to Breakthrough Racing and to Symon Productions and to Screen Media Films and to Der Spiegel and to the Werner Erhard Foundation and to Harvard Kennedy School's Center For Public Leadership and to Bussa Studios and to Werner Erhard and Associates and to the Eranos Foundation and to the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business and to the San Francisco Chronicle and to the University of Pennsylvania's Bioethics Film Festival and to Storyworks and to the Los Angeles Times and to UCLA  (University of California at Los Angeles) and to the staff of the Office of Werner Erhard and to Associated Press and to PBS  (Public Broadcasting Corporation) who inspired this conversation, and to Anita Lynn Erhard and to Elizabeth Russell and to Barry Colton and to Clare Erhard-Trick and to Wernher Krutein and to Mehul Mehta and to Commander Dreyvan Dayse, Indian Navy (ret), and to Gopal Rao and to Sudan Bey and to Cindy Peralta-Bey and to Cheryl Ulrich and to Judy Golden and to Robyn Symon and to JoAnne Bangs and to Rajendra Malik and to Bill Jersey and to Charlene Afremow and to Tim Hanni and to Lorlett Hudson and Dr James Doty and to Chris Wesselman and to Miroslav Sázovský and to Eva Sázovská Andriessen and Jane See White and to Josh Cohen and to Juli Hall who contributed material.




The spread of photographs of Werner in this catalog covers a range of years. Many people will remember Werner in the former years. Some people have only met Werner in the latter years. Most people who've experienced Werner face to face first saw him somewhere in between.

These photographs show Werner's appearance. Appropriately, Werner's appearance goeswith  transformation (as Alan Watts may have said). But, not shown in these photographs, it's Werner's speaking  which brings forth  transformation, Werner asserting "Transformation shows up in my mouth.".

This catalog of photographs of Werner shouldn't be construed simply as a compendium of snapshots. In fact, if that's how they do play to you, then I would have failed in my intention to make them available.

If you're awake to it, you'll see the face  of transformation everywhere in this catalog. The face of transformation is eternal, timeless, out of time. It's been around forever, yet it dances with us freshly and enthusiastically in all these new successive moments of now, playing, teasing, calling forth.

There's no significance to the order in which the photographs are displayed here. Some are in the order in which they first appeared in these Conversations For Transformation. Some aren't.
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Photography by Dennis Caudill / Visus Photography - courtesy The Family Therapy Networker magazine - San Francisco, California, USA - 1986 Image by Wernher Krutein / photovault.com - Franklin House, San Francisco, California, USA - Friday afternoon June 16, 1978 Photography by Lyn Malone
Photography by Kenneth Yamamoto
 

with Krishna Rai aka Swami Muktananda

with
Friends
Photography by Kenneth Yamamoto
 
Photography by Wayne Williams Photography by Anita Lynn Erhard Photography by Anita Lynn Erhard Photography by Wayne Williams
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - 1974 Photography by Randy Green

 
Photography by translator for Noritake Roshi
with Noritake Roshi
Photography by Anita Lynn Erhard Photography by Kenneth Yamamoto
Photography by a Friend of Werner Erhard Photography by Breakthrough Racing - Laguna Seca, California, USA - June 1979
Photography by Screen Media Films Photography by Lyn Malone Photography by Fred Ortiz - © San Francisco Examiner
"It`s OK the way it is." ... Werner Erhard Photography by Symon Productions - London Eye, London, England - 2004 Photography by Robert Buelteman Jr
Photography by Keth Luke "The Face Of Things To Come" - Philadelphia - 1939 - four years old Photography by Screen Media Films - © Symon Productions and Screen Media Films - 2007
Photography by Der Spiegel - Monday March 22, 1976 Photography by Laurence Platt - 2:35pm Friday May 30, 2008 Photography by Laurence Platt - 2:39pm Friday May 30, 2008
Photography by Angelo D'Amelio
with
Friends
Photography by Phyllis Ford
with Jack Rafferty
Photography by Werner Erhard Foundation - 1979
 
Photography by Werner Erhard Foundation - 1979
with
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
Introducing Transformation To Australia - Sydney Opera House Event - April 1987
Photography by Lyn Malone
1976 Photography by Tom Fitzsimmons - 2009 Photography by Keth Luke "Werner Walking In White" - Photography by Silent Sensei - Laguna Seca, California, USA - June 1979
Photography by Michael Schropp - 7:35pm Friday May 15, 2009
 
May 15, 2009
with his 99 year old mother Dorothy
Photography by Walton Ferris - Retreat with George Leonard - Sonoma County, California, USA - 1977
 
Breakthrough Racing - Sears Point, California, USA - 1979
 
Photography by Silent Sensei - Laguna Seca, California, USA - June 1979
with
Friends
Photograph courtesy erhardseminarstraining.com
 
Photograph courtesy erhardseminarstraining.com
 
Photography by James Wilson - © Woodfin Camp, Time and Life Pictures, Getty Images - January 1, 1979
 
Photography by Harvard Kennedy School's Center For Public Leadership - Thursday October 15, 2009
 
Photograph courtesy erhardseminarstraining.com - 2008
with Gonneke
Photography by Sudan Bey - Thanksgiving Celebration - Friday November 29, 2009
with his daughter Clare
Photography by Ray "Scotty" Morris - Left to right: Ted Long, Laurel Scheaf, Werner Erhard, Charlene Afremow, Randy McNamara, Landon Carter, Phyllis Allen, Ron Bynum, Ron Browning - California Street Building aka "CSB" - December 1977
with
est  Trainers
Photograph courtesy wernererhardquotes.wordpress.com
with Gonneke
"The Face Of Things To Come III" -
Photography by Bussa Studios -
Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA -
Saturday September 26, 1953 -
18 years 3 three weeks old
 
Photograph courtesy Clare Erhard-Trick
 
8:42pm Saturday July 24, 2010
 
Photograph courtesy Werner Erhard and Associates - 1982
 
"The Face Of Things To Come II" -
 Photograph courtesy Clare Erhard-Trick -
 Norristown High School Graduation -
 Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA -
 June 1952
 
Photography by Mehul Mehta -
 8:22pm Saturday November 27, 2010 -
 The Leadership Course:
 Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership:
 An Ontological / Phenomenological Model -
 Asia Plateau, Panchgani, Mahārāshtra, India
 
Photography by Ashish Vidyarthi -
 The Leadership Course:
 Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership:
 An Ontological / Phenomenological Model -
 Asia Plateau, Panchgani, Mahārāshtra, India
India collection
Photography by Commander Dreyvan Dayse, Indian Navy (ret) -
 7:07pm Saturday November 27, 2010 -
 The Leadership Course:
 Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership:
 An Ontological / Phenomenological Model -
 Asia Plateau, Panchgani, Mahārāshtra, India Photography by Steve Zaffron -
 12:00 noon Friday November 26, 2010 -
 The Leadership Course:
 Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership:
 An Ontological / Phenomenological Model -
 Asia Plateau, Panchgani, Mahārāshtra, India "Classic Werner" - Photograph Courtesy Clare Erhard-Trick Kyoto, Japan - 2010
Image by Wernher Krutein / photovault.com - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Sunday afternoon March 11, 1979 Image by Wernher Krutein / photovault.com - Valley Of The Moon, Sonoma County, California, USA - Thursday midday October 12, 1979 Photography by Lyn Malone
6:44pm Friday July 15, 2011 Photography by Gurmeet Khurana - On Mastery: An Evening with Werner Erhard - Delhi, India - 8:30pm Monday November 10, 2010 Photography by Chaitanya Chaddha - On Mastery: An Evening with Werner Erhard - Mumbai, India - 9:35pm Monday November 15, 2010 Image by Wernher Krutein / photovault.com - Franklin House, San Francisco, California, USA - Friday afternoon June 16, 1978
Photograph courtesy ReVision: The Journal of Consciousness and Change Fortieth birthday - Montara Beach, California, USA Photography by Suzi Pomerantz / suzipomerantz.com -
 Conversation Among Masters -
 San Antonio, Texas, USA -
 9:53am Thursday May 17, 2012 Photography by Dennis Caudill / Visus Photography - courtesy The Family Therapy Networker magazine - San Francisco, California, USA - 1986
Spain - January 2010
with Gonneke

with
Michael Jensen
Image by Wernher Krutein / photovault.com - Valley Of The Moon, Sonoma County, California, USA - Thursday midday October 12, 1979
 
What Is The Possibility Of Relationship? - 1984
 
Photography by Commander Dreyvan Dayse, Indian Navy (ret) -
 8:01:19pm Saturday November 27, 2010 -
 The Leadership Course:
 Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership:
 An Ontological / Phenomenological Model -
 Asia Plateau, Panchgani, Mahārāshtra, India
 
"Through A Porthole", Mediterranean Sea - 2010
 

with
Friends
Photography by Kenneth Yamamoto - Tuesday May 31, 1977
 
Photograph courtesy The Eranos Foundation - 2007 Photography by Jo Fielder - Breakthrough Racing - 1979 Saturday January 24, 1987 Photography by Elizabeth Handy
Studying on a boat on the Amazon river
 

 

 
Photography by University of Rochester's Simon School of Business
with
Friends
Photograph courtesy Bill Jersey

1983
with
Friends
Photography by Yousuf Karsh

1975
 
Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

August 2013
 
Photography San Francisco Chronicle

1980
 
Photography by Michael Shaun Conaway
courtesy Storyworks

Speaking the Leadership Course Werner looking

just looking

nothing less

nothing more
Hosting a staff dinner

At home

2013
 
Sailing on a riverboat on the Sacramento Delta

California, USA

mid-1980s
 
September 1975
with
Friends
Photography by Nick DeWolf

Old Snowmass, Colorado, USA

July 1980
Windstar Collection
Harvard Kennedy School's Center For Public Leadership

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

6:48pm Thursday August 28, 2014
with
Friends
Photography by Anita Lynn Erhard

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

4:31pm Wednesday July 11, 2007
 
China

2:17pm Tuesday June 1, 2004
with Gonneke
This is a great photograph - and I do mean 'great'.

I could write a book on the presence and the posture
alone.

Its focus is also interesting: intended or not, it rivets
attention.
with
Friends
University of Pennsylvania's Bioethics Film Festival

Philadelphia, USA

Wednesday April 13, 2016
 
Preparing for Texas A&M University Leadership Course

College Station, Texas, USA

2:47am Thursday June 3, 2010
 
Photography by Michael Shaun Conaway
courtesy Storyworks

Speaking the Leadership Course
with
Friends
Photography by Gonneke Spits

Grappa tasting

Venice, Italy
 
Photography by Barry Siegel
courtesy Los Angeles Times

Town Meeting

Parlier, California, USA

Monday July 31, 1978
 
Photography by Ivan Vrhnjak
Office of Werner Erhard

courtesy Lorlett Hudson

The Leadership Course:
Being a Leader
and the Effective Exercise of Leadership:
An Ontological / Phenomenological Model

Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Cancun, Mexico

3:01:23pm Wednesday November 1, 2017
with
Lorlett Hudson
Photography by Howard Hamburg

Breakthrough Foundation Source Document Meeting

Friday December 23, 1983
 
Photography by Chris Wesselman
courtesy Dr James Doty

McCaw Hall, Frances C Arrillaga Alumni Center
Stanford University, California, USA

5:52:01pm Thursday November 16, 2017
with
Dr James Doty
Leading the Leadership Course

Photograph courtesy
University of California at Los Angeles
with
Steve Zaffron and Friends
 
Resting in a souk

Marrakech, Morocco

5:52:02pm Tuesday May 29, 2018
Latest -V
 
Photography by Nick Freeman

Office of Werner Erhard

courtesy Miroslav Sázovský

The Leadership Course:
Being a Leader
and the Effective Exercise of Leadership:
An Ontological / Phenomenological Model

Grand Ballroom, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Cancun, Mexico

2:45pm Sunday October 28, 2018
Latest -IV
with
Eva Sázovská Andriessen and William Sázovský
"Werner Erhard, founder of est, during an appearance
at Madison Square Garden in New York recently. After
ten years of talks and seminars, Erhard fairly crackles
with enthusiasm." ... Jane See White


Photograph courtesy Associated Press

Madison Square Garden, New York, New York

Monday February 4, 1980
Latest -III
 
Leading the est Training

in episode 10 season 33 of

AMERICAN MASTERS
Raúl Juliá: The World's a Stage

aired Friday September 13, 2019
time 1:23:32

© PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - 2019
Latest -II
with
Friends
Photography by Gonneke Spits

Japan

circa 2009
Latest -II

 

Latest -I

 
Photograph courtesy Juli Hall
LATEST

 
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