David Norris

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Biographical Information

"Dr. David Norris began his professional life as an academic in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. After spending two years in Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship to research his doctoral dissertation, which he completed in 1971, he became an Assistant Professor at City College of New York. In that same year, he participated in a 2-weekend programme called the EST Training (which later became the Landmark Forum). Three years later he resigned his professorship, shifted his life direction and began a 20-year period on the EST staff as a manager and then as an EST Trainer (later Landmark Forum Leader). During those 20 years he immersed himself in the principles and practices of individual transformation as well as learning the craft of leading courses for small and large groups of people. He led EST and Landmark programmes world-wide, including in India, Australia, most of Western Europe, the Middle East and throughout the USA and Canada. This gave him the opportunity to explore deeply the nature of human being in many different cultures and thereby to discover the differences between what is essentially human and what is primarily on the surface, that is, the cultural identity. After leaving Landmark, he changed life direction again and began working with corporations as a management and organisational consultant, exploring the dynamics of transformation in complex non-linear systems. He also began a course of study in the human emotional body. In his words: “I’ve had two major educations in my life: one was Columbia University, where my intellect was formed; the other was EST/Landmark, where my understanding of transformation was developed. And now I’m in the middle of my third education, where I’m learning to trust and be led by life.”"

Affiliations

• Facilitator, Concord Institute