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Personal Empowerment

A Methodology for Creating Your Life As You Want It

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Three decades ago, the idea of empowerment was fresh and daring. As young as the word itself, we, (David and Gail) both felt that empowerment would be at the heart of our life’s work. In our earliest days together, sitting with yellow legal pads at our kitchen table overlooking the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Mountains, we planned our wedding ceremony and then seamlessly turned to designing our fledgling Empowerment Workshop. So intertwined was our love with our passion for this work, that ten days after we were married, we launched our first workshop. As we celebrate our third decade of marriage, our bond of love is stronger than ever and our passion for empowerment more compelling than ever.

All those years ago, neither we, nor the world, knew what empowerment really meant. We knew it was about helping people to grow and realize their full potential. We also knew that it was about more than just healing and fixing problems. But what exactly was its purpose? Why was this idea entering the lexicon of change strategies with such force? Over these three decades, an extraordinarily diverse, visionary, and committed community of people was attracted to our training programs to help us discover the answers to these questions.

Personal Empowerment Programs

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  • Empowerment Workshop

    Empowerment Workshop The purpose of the Empowerment Workshop is to support you in creating your life as you most want it. Over the past three decades David Gershon and Gail Straub—considered the world’s foremost experts in empowerment—have assisted tens of thousands of people in living their heart’s desire. Read More
  • Returning to My Mother's House

    Returning to My Mother's House In this workshop we create a sacred container to delve into the mysteries of our womanhood; what we have lost, how we can take back and sustain our wisdom, and how to pass on our knowledge protecting the lineage of the feminine for our daughters and future generations. Read More
  • Rhythm of Compassion

    Rhythm of Compassion In these troubled times many of us are taking a long, hard look at the state of our souls as well as the state of the world. We recognize that at the deepest level our own health is inseparable from the health of the world, so if we wish to thrive society must also thrive.

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  • The Open Road: Pathways of Conscious Aging

    Gail Straub's new program is an invitation to create a visionary community where we craft new attitudes, beliefs, practices, rituals, and celebrations for growing old.

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Empowerment Audio


Empowerment bookListen to excerpts from David Gershon and Gail Straub’s best-selling book Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life As You Want It, read by the authors:

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  • Part One - Getting Ready
  • Part Two - Crafting Reality with Thought
  • Part Three - Personal Power
  • Part Four - Core Beliefs
  • Part Five - The Journey, Emotions
  • Part Six - Money
  • Part Seven - Work
  • Part Eight - Spirituality
  • Part Nine - Returning Home: Always Growing, Making Your Passion Happen

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Personal Empowerment Testimonials


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"The Empowerment Workshop profoundly affected my life. It gave me a foundation of self-trust that I needed to co-create my business. I have no idea how I would have believed I could do this without the reinforcement of the empowerment model."
—Christiane Northrup, medical doctor and author

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