Editing Erhard Seminars Training (section)

===Participants' reported results===
Many participants reported experiencing powerful results through their participation in the est training, characterised by Eliezer Sobel as perceived "dramatic transformations in their relationships with their families, with their work and personal [[Goal|vision]], or most important, with the recognition [[self-awareness |who they truly were]] in the core of their beings".<ref name=Moreno />{{qn|date=February 2021}} One study of "a large sample of est alumni who had completed the training at least 3 months before revealed that "the large majority felt the experience had been positive (88%), and considered themselves better off for having taken the training (80%)".<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Galanter
 | first1 = Marc
 | author-link1 = Marc Galanter (psychiatrist)
 | year = 1990
 | chapter = Altered Consciousness
 | title = Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dKlkYgGo2cEC
 | edition = 2
 | location = New York
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
 | publication-date = 1999
 | page = 75
 | isbn = 9780198028765
 | access-date = 18 February 2021
 | quote = The whole thing ["getting it"] is treated as a joke, discomforting the new converts. [...] Nonetheless, one study of a large sample of est alumni who had completed the training at least three months before revealed that the large majority felt the experience had been positive (88%), and considered themselves better off for having taken the training (80%).
}}
</ref> Others described the sessions more negatively.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McClellan |first=Bill |date=9 January 1985 |title='Hunger Network' Unites Opponents |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch/170402912/ |access-date=15 April 2025 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>