Werner Erhard and Associates

Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A or as WEA, was a commercial personal development program which operated from 1984 until early 1991.

[3][4] In 1991 Erhard sold the assets of WE&A to a group of employees, who later formed Landmark Education.

[6] Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training, a longitudinal study published by Springer in the series Recent Research in Psychology in 1990 concluded that attending the Forum had minimal lasting effects — positive or negative — on participants.

[9] The results of the research study appeared in two articles in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1989[10] and in 1990,[11] Public-opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich did an investigation of the response of participants to their experience 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".