David Gershon and Gail Straub created the Empowerment Workshop in 1981, and since then have offered it to thousands of people throughout the world. Their best-selling book, Empowerment, originally published in 1989 and translated into seven languages, has become a personal growth classic and is used worldwide as the basis for life coaching.
Building on their decades of teaching and research in 2001, David and Gail created the Empowerment Institute Certification Program to provide in-depth training in their state-of-the-art empowerment methodology for personal, organizational, community, and societal transformation. For information on the Empowerment Institute, please visit www.empowermentinstitute.net.
In 2010, Gail and David developed IMAGINE—a global initiative for the empowerment of women. In resource-poor settings around the world, women are empowered to envision and create new possibilities for themselves, their families, and their communities. Partner organizations in countries such as Afghanistan, Sudan (Darfur), Nigeria, India, and South Africa select women leaders to attend the Empowerment Institute, where they are trained to lead the Empowerment Workshop in their home countries. For more information, please visit www.imagineprogram.net.
David and Gail lecture widely, and their work and books have won many awards.
Other books by David Gershon
Social Change 2.0
Low Carbon Diet
Green Living Handbook
The Livable Neighborhood
Journey for the Planet
Journey for the Planet Coaches’
Guide
Water Stewardship
All Together Now
A Dream for Our World
Other books by Gail Straub
Returning to My Mother’s House
The Rhythm of Compassion
Circle of Compassion