George Leonard, a pioneer in the field of human
potentialities, is author of twelve books, including The
Transformation, Education and Ecstasy, The Silent Pulse, the
Ultimate Athlete, and Mastery.
During his seventeen years as senior editor for Look
Magazine, he covered the Civil Rights Movement, politics,
foreign affairs, and social change, while winning an
unprecedented number of national awards for education writing.
Later, he produced annual Ultimate Fitness sections for Esquire
as well as numerous articles on a wide variety of subjects in
such magazines as Esquire, Harper's, The Atlantic, New York,
Saturday Review, and The Nation.
Leonard holds a fifth-degree black belt in aikido and is
co-founder of a martial arts school. He is founder of Leonard
Energy Training (LET), a transformative practice inspired by
aikido, which he has introduced to some 50,000 people in the
U.S. and abroad. He is past-president of the Association for
Humanistic Psychology, president emeritus of Esalen Institute,
and President of ITP International.
A native of Georgia, Leonard received a Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of North Carolina and Doctor of
Humanities degrees from John F. Kennedy University, Lewis and
Clark College, and Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center.
His adventures along the human frontiers of the 1960s are described in a memoir, Walking on the Edge of the World.
selected books
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
(Plume, 1992)
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The Life We Are Given(Tarcher, 2005)
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Way of Aikido, The: Life Lessons from an American Sensei: Life Lessons from an American Sensei(Plume, 2000)
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selected video, audio, dvd
The 5 Keys to Mastery
(Winstar, 2005)
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The Tao of Practice(Mystic Fire Video, 1998)
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other related websites
Integral Transformative Practice
Developed by Michael Murphy and George Leonard
http://www.itp-international.org/index.html
