Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A or as WEA, was a commercial

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program which operated from 1984 until early 1991. It replaced

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. Initially WE&A marketed and staged ''est'' training (in the form of the ''est'' seminars and workshops), but in 1984 the est training was replaced by WE&A with a briefer, a less authoritarian and more marketable program based on

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's teachings and called The Forum. In 1991 Erhard sold the assets of WE&A to a group of employees, who later formed

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. Erhard then retired"Site by Former Associates committed to providing accurate and reliable information about Werner Erhard"
Retrieved 2007-09-09. and left the United States.

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'' Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training'', a

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published by

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in the series ''Recent Research in Psychology'' in 1990 concluded that attending the Forum had minimal lasting effects — positive or negative — on participants. J.D. Fisher, R. C. Silver, J. M. Chinsky, B. Goff and Y. Klar, '' Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training: A Longitudinal Study of Psychosocial Effects'', Published by

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, October 1990, . The research won an

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"National Psychological Consultants to Management Award" in 1989.
Page. vii. – "The research reported in this volume was awarded the American Psychological Association, Division 13, National Consultants to Management Award, August 13, 1989." The results of the research study appeared in two articles in the ''

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'' in 1989 and in 1990, Public-opinion analyst

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did an investigation of the response of participants to their

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of the Forum. Yankelovich reported that "more than seven out of ten participants found the Forum to be one of their life's most rewarding experiences". The study reported that 95 percent of Forum graduates believe the Forum had "specific, practical value" for many aspects of their lives, and 86 percent of those surveyed said that it helped them "cope with a particular challenge or problem".

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