Werner Erhard

American author and lecturer (b. 1935), founder of Erhard Seminars Training (est) and a co-founder of The Hunger Project.

Erhard built one of the largest human-potential movements of the 1970s. est's intensive trainings, and the transformation-and-commitment vocabulary around them, drew hundreds of thousands of participants and a network of allied social initiatives.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: collaborator. R. Buckminster Fuller was closely allied with Erhard's orbit, above all The Hunger Project — the 1977 initiative to make the end of hunger an idea whose time had come. Fuller appeared on its platforms and lent it exactly his signature conviction: that Earth is a system with resources enough for everyone, so hunger is an organizational failure, not a physical necessity. Erhard's "a world that works for everyone" restates Fuller's design-science optimism in human-potential language, and the two shared stages and cause. That active partnership on a common project places Erhard among Fuller's collaborators rather than merely his contemporaries.

See Also

• Est (Est) — the human-potential and world-transformation movement Erhard founded

Sources

• Werner Erhard Foundation Board of Directors (source reference) — documents the Erhard / Hunger Project network around Fuller