The Werner Erhard Foundation sponsored "Conversations with R. Buckminster Fuller" (1976-77) and "Making the World Work for Everyone" (1979), seven presentations in seven cities in which Dr. Fuller, mathematician, comprehensive designer, architect, inventor, cartographer, philosopher, poet, and global citizen, presented information on how the individual can be effective in making the world work for everyone and exchanged views with Werner Erhard.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Presentations of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller
The Werner Erhard Foundation sponsored "Conversations with R. Buckminster Fuller" (1976-77) and "Making the World Work for Everyone" (1979), seven presentations in seven cities in which Dr. Fuller, mathematician, comprehensive designer, architect, inventor, cartographer, philosopher, poet, and global citizen, presented information on how the individual can be effective in making the world work for everyone and exchanged views with Werner Erhard.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Werner Erhard and Buckminster Fuller
From The Graduate Review – January 1979
Seeing Who We Are
When Bucky and Werner first met, they recognized the beginning of a spacious, synergistic relationship. Their relationship expanded during subsequent meetings until several months later, in 1976, the Werner Erhard Foundation sponsored a series of events which brought Werner and Bucky together on stage in four cities for day-long conversations that were attended by 7300 people.
“I didn’t know what the est training was,” Bucky relates, “but we hit it off right away. What was really beautiful about Werner was the fact that he dared to be naïve – which is the only way you can really learn. In our events he became like a child. This endeared him to me very greatly.”
Bucky’s global vision and Werner’s intention are complementary, creating a dynamic whole through the constant interplay of energies.
Bucky’s vision of transformation on the planet comes from his experience that people change when they are provided with physical alternatives, i.e. artifacts, which create an environment harmonious with the principles of the universe.
Werner talks about transforming the “beingsphere,” and the est training is designed to create a space for transformation within the individual being. Individuals, then, serve to transform society and humanity by expanding their personal transformation to levels of relationship, organization, and society.
The point at which Bucky and Werner’s philosophies converge is the issue of individual responsibility. Neither of them is interested in creating movements or followings. Neither is interested in people who want to be told what to do, but rather in people who experience their wholeness and have the courage to ask “What needs to be done?” and “What can I do?”
Bucky is an example of what one committed individual can do. His monumental accomplishments as one individual are a challenge to what we can create as an alignment of thousands of committed individuals. He is the prototype for who we are. Bucky’s 50-year experiment has been a success because we are here now to carry on the work. Our work has just begun.
- Mary Earle, 1979
Monday, February 4, 2008
The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project was formed in 1977 as a grass roots organization to generate and build a consensus to bring about the end of chronic, persistent hunger. Today, ending hunger is no longer an obscure issue championed only by a compassionate few. It is now squarely on the global agenda, recieving the attention of leaders and citizens the world over. The Hunger Project recently honored it's 30th anniversary. Watch their moving tribute to the work and dedication of people all around the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43h_rUpp1ng
Saturday, January 19, 2008
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
The Werner Erhard Foundation presented His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the acknowledged "Pontiff of Tibetan Buddhism," to the public in 1979 in Boston, where he discussed Buddhist philosophy with Werner Erhard.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
The Werner Erhard Foundation and the USSR
The support of the Foundation made possible groundbreaking conversations between leaders, scholars and officials from virtually all parts of the world in the field of human achievement and transformation. As a result of this support, exchange programs were launched that provided new ground for international cooperation.
One such program was the US/USSR Project, launched in 1979 and designed as an educational exchange to explore the principles of communication, management, and creative thinking with the people of what was then the Soviet Union. After several delegate exchanges, Werner Erhard was invited to conduct the first of many courses and lectures in Moscow, under the auspices of the Znaniye (All Union Knowledge) Society—the prime vehicle for education in the (former) Soviet Union.
In 1988, the Znaniye Society took steps to extend the availability of these programs in the U.S.S.R. A brochure describing the project work stated:
“Radically new, non-traditional solutions will need to play a big role in the perestroika of our economic, social and political systems. Only solutions of this class will allow us to reach our goals. But solutions at this level demand that we break through the habitual contours of our thinking so that we can see new possibilities and new methods of addressing theses issues…
“In this regard, the technology offered by (The Werner Erhard Foundation) is of immediate and practical interest to a broad audience of Soviet people and it would be valuable to study and master its methodology and practice.”
To this end, independent of the Foundation, avenues for continuing this exchange between the people and organizations of the U.S. and the new Commonwealth of Soviet Republics were expanded. These included a series of videotapes designed to make this work widely available to the Soviet public, over a sustained period of time.
One such program was the US/USSR Project, launched in 1979 and designed as an educational exchange to explore the principles of communication, management, and creative thinking with the people of what was then the Soviet Union. After several delegate exchanges, Werner Erhard was invited to conduct the first of many courses and lectures in Moscow, under the auspices of the Znaniye (All Union Knowledge) Society—the prime vehicle for education in the (former) Soviet Union.
In 1988, the Znaniye Society took steps to extend the availability of these programs in the U.S.S.R. A brochure describing the project work stated:
“Radically new, non-traditional solutions will need to play a big role in the perestroika of our economic, social and political systems. Only solutions of this class will allow us to reach our goals. But solutions at this level demand that we break through the habitual contours of our thinking so that we can see new possibilities and new methods of addressing theses issues…
“In this regard, the technology offered by (The Werner Erhard Foundation) is of immediate and practical interest to a broad audience of Soviet people and it would be valuable to study and master its methodology and practice.”
To this end, independent of the Foundation, avenues for continuing this exchange between the people and organizations of the U.S. and the new Commonwealth of Soviet Republics were expanded. These included a series of videotapes designed to make this work widely available to the Soviet public, over a sustained period of time.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The Werner Erhard Foundation Statement of Purpose
The purpose of the Werner Erhard Foundation was to encourage and support research, communication, education, and scholarly endevors in the fields of human well-being and transformation, both individual and social.
The Werner Erhard Foundation provided financial and organizational support for individuals, organizations, and institutions that are contributing to the process of transformation and to the creation of the reality of a world that works for everyone.
Health and Well Being
To encourage and support practices and perceptions that enable people to become more responsible for and to expand their mental and physical health and well-being.
Education and Society
To support the art and science of education so that people are empowered by the teaching and learning process to fulfill their potential for making a difference.
Cultural and Spiritual Exchange
To support the study of the diversity of cultural and theological/philosophical approaches to human values and to make that knowledge available to the public.
Scientific Research and Conferences
To support scientific inquiry and dialogue regarding the nature of reality, understanding, and human experience.
Global Transformation
To expand the awareness of the reality of a world that works for everyone with no one and nothing left out, and to encourage individuals to participate in bringing about a transformation in the quality of life on our planet.
The Werner Erhard Foundation provided financial and organizational support for individuals, organizations, and institutions that are contributing to the process of transformation and to the creation of the reality of a world that works for everyone.
Health and Well Being
To encourage and support practices and perceptions that enable people to become more responsible for and to expand their mental and physical health and well-being.
Education and Society
To support the art and science of education so that people are empowered by the teaching and learning process to fulfill their potential for making a difference.
Cultural and Spiritual Exchange
To support the study of the diversity of cultural and theological/philosophical approaches to human values and to make that knowledge available to the public.
Scientific Research and Conferences
To support scientific inquiry and dialogue regarding the nature of reality, understanding, and human experience.
Global Transformation
To expand the awareness of the reality of a world that works for everyone with no one and nothing left out, and to encourage individuals to participate in bringing about a transformation in the quality of life on our planet.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
WERNER ERHARD FOUNDATION GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
A Symposium:
Issues of Consciousness and Survival
Act Together, Inc.
Alaska Oil Spill
Alia Carl, Institute for Humane Studies
American Conservatory Theatre
American Red Cross
Amigo de las Americas
Marin County Chapter
Annual Science Conferences
Physics Conference
Science Conference IV
Science Conference V
Science Conference VI
Science Conference VII
Science Conference IX
Science Conference X
Apple Family Center
Armenian Earthquake Relief
Art Nierenberg and Arthur Rittmaster
Art Against Aids
Artists for Humanity
Association for Humanistic Psychology
Bangladesh Flood Relief
Behavioral Sciences Institute
Black American Response to the African Crisis
Bodhi Community
Joseph E. Bogen, M.D.
Bread and Roses
G. Spencer Brown
Buckminster Fuller Memorial
Buckminster Fuller Presentations
California Institute of Asian Studies
California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
California Narcotic Officers Association
CARE—Bangladesh
Carol Vaness Documentary
Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age
China Study Tour Group
Cogswell College
Community Environmental Education Program
Conference Team Development
Congressional Human Rights Foundation
Contemplative Outreach
Conversations with Buckminster Fuller
Corby Collins
Coro Foundation
Dalai Lama Presentations
Dartmouth College
Katharine DaSilva-Jain
Paul Dell, Ph.D.
Rodney Donaldson
Douglas Harding Presentations
Professor Hubert Dreyfus, University of California
Drepung Aid Project
East Bay Men’s Center Conference
East West Foundation Education Fund
Education Network
Effectiveness Training
Joan Erikson
Esalen Institute
Esalen Institute Center for Theoretical Studies
Arturo Escobar
Ethiopia Famine Relief
Exploratory Meeting on the Nuclear Deadlock
Exploratorium
Family Light Music School
Farallones Institute
Richard Feinbloom, M.D.
Film Institute of Northern California
Fernando Flores
Food for the Poor
Heinz Von Foerster and Humberto Maturana
Foundation for Mideast Communication
Friends of Buckminster Fuller Foundation
Friends of Conservation
Friends of the Marina Green
David Galin, M.A.
General Studies Theory Conference
U Golomi Govinda
Grace Cathedral
Groundswell
Guild for Psychological Studies
--in memory of Leo Zeff
Michael Harris and Harold Burszlain
Harvard Community Health Plan
Harvard University School of Medicine
Beresford Hayward, Ph.D.,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ronnie Heifetz, M.D.
His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa
Homeless Community Project
Human Dolphin Foundation
Indian Society for Community Education
ISHK, Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge
Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies
Institution of Open Education
International Center for Development Policy
Erik Jansen, Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California
John Hopkins University Press
KCTS Channel 9 Public TV, Seattle
KQED—New Perspectives
KQED—TV Public Television, San Francisco
Robert Kriegel, Director SAGAS
Latin America & North America:
Confrontation or Cooperation—
An International Conference
Living Tao Foundation
Lomi School Bulletin
Joanna Macy
Mar Vista Family Center
Margie Jenkins Dance Troupe
Marshall McLuhan Center on Global Communication
Julian Melzak, Philosopher
Metanola
Mexico Relief
Mills College
Missionaries of Charity, Mother Theresa
Michael Murphy and James Hickman
Professor Hu Mon-Yu,
Beijing Normal University
Mozambique Project
Naropa Institute
National Association for the Poor
Neuropsychology Fund of Stanford University
New Dimensions Foundation
North Bay Secondary School
North Charles Mental Health Foundation
Northern California Grantmakers
Nyingma Center
OCCUR Oakland Citizens Committee
Organize Training Center
Our Lady of Sorrow School
Outcome Study
PTV Production, Inc.
Pacific News Service
Pacific Primary
Paradigms for Research Conference
Rennie-Payne Ayers
George Pegelow
Planet Earth Foundation
Police Officers Research Association
John Poppy
Curtiss Porter
Prarambha Trust
Dr. Karl Pribram
Professor Roy L. Prosterman
Program for Public Advocates
Project Participar
Public Advocates
Rajineesh Meditation Center
Research Study on Outcome of Transformation
Daniel Rohrlich
Rolf Institute
Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
Charles Rosen, Researcher
Kobori Nanrei Roshi
Richard Baker Roshi
Tachibana Dalid Roshi
Rural Development Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation
San Francisco Symphony
Saul-Paul Sirag, Physicist
John Searle, Ph.D.
Search for Common Ground
Charlette Seiver
Shakespeare and Company
Sidney Rittenberg
Si Hai Li
Sovianut
Dr. Frederic Spiegelberg
Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship
St. Francis Center
Stanford Research Institute
Swami Dayananda Saraswali
Swami Muktananda World Tour
Synergy Seminars
The Breakthrough Foundation
The Cambridge Friends School
The Capp Street Foundation
The CareGivers Project
The Center for Visual Arts
The Holiday Project
The Hunger Project
The Hungry Planet, LDT.
The Improvement Association of the 8th District
The John Davis Lodge Center for International Studies
The Laughing Man Institute
The Mastery Foundation
The Point Foundation
The Spiritual Institute of America
The Tides Foundation
The Windstar Foundation
Theodore Roszak, Ph.D.
Tibetan Orphan Project
Transpersonal Psychology Institute
U.C. Regents, Phillip Lee Scholarship
University of California
University of California and Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge
University of California, French studies Program
University of California, Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California, San Francisco, Dept. of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, J. Donald Cohon, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Religious Studies
University of California, Davis
University of Massachusetts Medical Center Committee for the Arts
University of Oregon
University of the Philippines
University of the World
University of Washington, Law School Foundation
US/Costa Rica Presidential Advisory Commission
US/USSR Exchange, Jim Terr
Vajradhatu
Visual Communications
Volunteer Centers of California
Volunteer Project
Washington, D.C. Youth at Risk
Jeffrey A. Weiss, Ph.D.
Wharton International Films
Michael Wiese
Windstar Journal
World Institute on Disability
World Without War Council, Inc.
Zen Center, San Francisco
Issues of Consciousness and Survival
Act Together, Inc.
Alaska Oil Spill
Alia Carl, Institute for Humane Studies
American Conservatory Theatre
American Red Cross
Amigo de las Americas
Marin County Chapter
Annual Science Conferences
Physics Conference
Science Conference IV
Science Conference V
Science Conference VI
Science Conference VII
Science Conference IX
Science Conference X
Apple Family Center
Armenian Earthquake Relief
Art Nierenberg and Arthur Rittmaster
Art Against Aids
Artists for Humanity
Association for Humanistic Psychology
Bangladesh Flood Relief
Behavioral Sciences Institute
Black American Response to the African Crisis
Bodhi Community
Joseph E. Bogen, M.D.
Bread and Roses
G. Spencer Brown
Buckminster Fuller Memorial
Buckminster Fuller Presentations
California Institute of Asian Studies
California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
California Narcotic Officers Association
CARE—Bangladesh
Carol Vaness Documentary
Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age
China Study Tour Group
Cogswell College
Community Environmental Education Program
Conference Team Development
Congressional Human Rights Foundation
Contemplative Outreach
Conversations with Buckminster Fuller
Corby Collins
Coro Foundation
Dalai Lama Presentations
Dartmouth College
Katharine DaSilva-Jain
Paul Dell, Ph.D.
Rodney Donaldson
Douglas Harding Presentations
Professor Hubert Dreyfus, University of California
Drepung Aid Project
East Bay Men’s Center Conference
East West Foundation Education Fund
Education Network
Effectiveness Training
Joan Erikson
Esalen Institute
Esalen Institute Center for Theoretical Studies
Arturo Escobar
Ethiopia Famine Relief
Exploratory Meeting on the Nuclear Deadlock
Exploratorium
Family Light Music School
Farallones Institute
Richard Feinbloom, M.D.
Film Institute of Northern California
Fernando Flores
Food for the Poor
Heinz Von Foerster and Humberto Maturana
Foundation for Mideast Communication
Friends of Buckminster Fuller Foundation
Friends of Conservation
Friends of the Marina Green
David Galin, M.A.
General Studies Theory Conference
U Golomi Govinda
Grace Cathedral
Groundswell
Guild for Psychological Studies
--in memory of Leo Zeff
Michael Harris and Harold Burszlain
Harvard Community Health Plan
Harvard University School of Medicine
Beresford Hayward, Ph.D.,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ronnie Heifetz, M.D.
His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa
Homeless Community Project
Human Dolphin Foundation
Indian Society for Community Education
ISHK, Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge
Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies
Institution of Open Education
International Center for Development Policy
Erik Jansen, Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California
John Hopkins University Press
KCTS Channel 9 Public TV, Seattle
KQED—New Perspectives
KQED—TV Public Television, San Francisco
Robert Kriegel, Director SAGAS
Latin America & North America:
Confrontation or Cooperation—
An International Conference
Living Tao Foundation
Lomi School Bulletin
Joanna Macy
Mar Vista Family Center
Margie Jenkins Dance Troupe
Marshall McLuhan Center on Global Communication
Julian Melzak, Philosopher
Metanola
Mexico Relief
Mills College
Missionaries of Charity, Mother Theresa
Michael Murphy and James Hickman
Professor Hu Mon-Yu,
Beijing Normal University
Mozambique Project
Naropa Institute
National Association for the Poor
Neuropsychology Fund of Stanford University
New Dimensions Foundation
North Bay Secondary School
North Charles Mental Health Foundation
Northern California Grantmakers
Nyingma Center
OCCUR Oakland Citizens Committee
Organize Training Center
Our Lady of Sorrow School
Outcome Study
PTV Production, Inc.
Pacific News Service
Pacific Primary
Paradigms for Research Conference
Rennie-Payne Ayers
George Pegelow
Planet Earth Foundation
Police Officers Research Association
John Poppy
Curtiss Porter
Prarambha Trust
Dr. Karl Pribram
Professor Roy L. Prosterman
Program for Public Advocates
Project Participar
Public Advocates
Rajineesh Meditation Center
Research Study on Outcome of Transformation
Daniel Rohrlich
Rolf Institute
Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
Charles Rosen, Researcher
Kobori Nanrei Roshi
Richard Baker Roshi
Tachibana Dalid Roshi
Rural Development Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation
San Francisco Symphony
Saul-Paul Sirag, Physicist
John Searle, Ph.D.
Search for Common Ground
Charlette Seiver
Shakespeare and Company
Sidney Rittenberg
Si Hai Li
Sovianut
Dr. Frederic Spiegelberg
Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship
St. Francis Center
Stanford Research Institute
Swami Dayananda Saraswali
Swami Muktananda World Tour
Synergy Seminars
The Breakthrough Foundation
The Cambridge Friends School
The Capp Street Foundation
The CareGivers Project
The Center for Visual Arts
The Holiday Project
The Hunger Project
The Hungry Planet, LDT.
The Improvement Association of the 8th District
The John Davis Lodge Center for International Studies
The Laughing Man Institute
The Mastery Foundation
The Point Foundation
The Spiritual Institute of America
The Tides Foundation
The Windstar Foundation
Theodore Roszak, Ph.D.
Tibetan Orphan Project
Transpersonal Psychology Institute
U.C. Regents, Phillip Lee Scholarship
University of California
University of California and Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge
University of California, French studies Program
University of California, Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California, San Francisco, Dept. of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, J. Donald Cohon, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Religious Studies
University of California, Davis
University of Massachusetts Medical Center Committee for the Arts
University of Oregon
University of the Philippines
University of the World
University of Washington, Law School Foundation
US/Costa Rica Presidential Advisory Commission
US/USSR Exchange, Jim Terr
Vajradhatu
Visual Communications
Volunteer Centers of California
Volunteer Project
Washington, D.C. Youth at Risk
Jeffrey A. Weiss, Ph.D.
Wharton International Films
Michael Wiese
Windstar Journal
World Institute on Disability
World Without War Council, Inc.
Zen Center, San Francisco
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