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Empowerment Participants Describe Their Experience
A Brief History of Empowerment Institute
In 1981 David Gershon and Gail Straub founded Empowerment Institute to explore the question: how do you empower people to grow and realize their full potential? They wanted to shift the focus from fixing problems and healing the past, to focusing on what we want for our lives, our organizations, our communities, and our world – and how to achieve it. Enabling people to envision and realize their dreams was the approach they called “empowerment.” The term “empowerment” was new in the vernacular of transformation, as was their approach. This transformative social innovation soon began attracting attention.
People came to learn about empowerment for themselves, their organizations, their communities, and their causes. They came from all over North America, Europe and Latin America, but also from Afghanistan, Darfur, Rwanda, South Africa, China, Russia, and India.
Empowerment in action around the world
Beyond Having the Answers
Upcoming Trainings & Events
Empowerment Institute
Next training program begins
January 9-12, 2014
Practice of Empowerment
July 5–7, 2013
at Omega Institute
The Open Road: Aging and the Imagination with Gail Straub
September 27-29, 2013
at Omega Institute
Transformative Social Change
A FREE Online Global Teleseminar
with David Gershon
Sunday October 18, 2013, 2pm EST
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About Empowerment Institute
Empowerment Institute, founded in 1981 by David Gershon and Gail Straub, is the world's preeminent consulting and training organization specializing in the practice of empowerment. Its empowerment methodology has been applied over the past three decades to achieve measurable and sustainable behavior change at the individual, organizational and community level. A major academic research study described this methodology as “unsurpassed in changing behavior.”
Empowerment Certification
Empowerment Institute is a three-part professional training leading to certification. It is based on David Gershon and Gail Straub’s world-renowned work on empowerment and their mastery of personal growth facilitation developed over the past thirty years.
Next training program begins January 9–12, 2014.
Organizational Empowerment
A framework and methodology
for changing behavior, developing talent
and transforming a culture.
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Community Empowerment
A framework, methodology and tools
for changing behavior, community engagement
and large system transformation.
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Societal Empowerment
A comprehensive blueprint for designing
transformative social innovations
and large-scale societal change.
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