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George Leonard, a pioneer in the field of human potential, and the author of a number of books, including The Transformation, Education and Ecstasy, The Ultimate Athlete, The Silent Pulse and Mastery. The 1995 book, The Life We Are Given, co-authored with Esalen founder Michael Murphy, reports on a two-year experimental class in Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) created by the authors for realizing the potential of body, mind, heart and soul. The Stanford University School of Medicine is studying the effectiveness of ITP ‹www.ITP-life.com› in enhancing health and well being. His latest book, The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei, was published in June 1999.

A native of Georgia, Leonard received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina and Doctor of Humanities degrees from Lewis and Clark College and John F. Kennedy University. He served with the U.S. Air Force as a combat pilot in the South Pacific during World War II and as an intelligence officer and magazine editor during the Korean war. From 1953 to 1970 he was a senior editor for Look Magazine. Leonard holds a fifth-degree black belt in aikido, and is co-owner of a martial arts school in Mill Valley, California ‹www.tam-aikido.org›.

He is founder of Leonard Energy Training (LET), a transformative practice inspired by aikido, which he introduced to some 50,000 people in the U.S. and abroad. He is a past-president of the Association of Humanistic Pyschology, and currently serves as President of Esalen Institute ‹www.esalen.com›.

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George Leonard, President of Esalen’s Board of Trustees, has been described as the “granddaddy of the consciousness movement” by Newsweek and “the poet-philosopher of American health” by American Health Magazine. A pioneer in the study of human potential, he is the author of numerous books, including Education and Ecstasy, The Transformation, The Ultimate Athlete, The Silent Pulse, Mastery, and The Way of Aikido. Together with Michael Murphy, he developed Integral Transformative Practice (ITP). He holds a 5th degree black belt in aikido and is co-owner of an aikido school in Mill Valley, California. He is also founder of Leonard Energy Training (LET), an aikido inspired practice that offers alternative ways of handling everyday life problems.