Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It [Paperback]

David Gershon (Author), Gail Straub (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1989

Now in its 11th printing, and translated into eight languages, Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It is widely considered to be a classic in the field of personal empowerment and transformation. Much more than a collection of inspiring principles, the book guides readers step-by-step through a systematic self-transformation program addressing seven key areas of life: relationships, sexuality, money, work, body, emotions and spirituality. Empowerment is based on its authors' two decades of work helping thousands of people create the life of their dreams. Its simple premise--that our thoughts and beliefs create the conditions of our life--is illustrated with anecdotes from each of the seven areas. Readers are then given practical and immediately applicable tools to help envision and create what they wish to achieve in each of these areas. With over 60,000 copies sold, and with America's interest in self-transformation growing every day, Empowerment promises to be a strong title for years to come.

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"For over two decades, David Gershon and Gail Straub have inspired and empowered thousands of people to transform their lives and contribute to the preservation of our planet. This book makes their knowledge and techniques available to all."
-Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., author, Staying Alive:

The Psychology of Human Survival

About the Author

David Gershon and Gail Straub are considered the world's foremost experts on empowerment. Co-founders of Empowerment Training Programs, their state-of-the-art empowerment tools have been applied over the past two decades to achieve profound transformative change at the individual, organizational and societal levels. Their Empowerment Institute Certification Program has certified practitioners throughout the world to apply their "empowerment model" in businesses, schools, prisons, and grassroots social change organizations. In 1986 they applied the principles of empowerment and organized, in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund and ABC Television, the First Earth Run in which a lighted torch was passed around the world. More than 25 million people and 45 heads of state in 62 countries participated in this worldwide celebration of our possibility to live in harmony with each other and the Earth. David and Gail are married and live in upstate New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 234 pages
• Publisher: Empowerment Institute (November 15, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967237408
• ISBN-13: 978-0967237404
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It (Paperback)

I took the authors' empowerment workshop about 15 years ago where I received my first copy. The book and the accompanying exercises and journeys are exciting and enlightening. I recently purchased another copy for a friend in need of establishing "life affirmations" and ridding herself of depressive "old scripts". It caused me to revisit my old copy and do a "tune up" on myself. What an uplifting and helpful tool. A must read.