Steven Sashen

Steven Sashen (Born June 11, 1962 Washington DC; raised in Bethesda, MD.) is an American Transformational Entrepreneur.

Biography

Steven designed [http://www.Scriptware.com Scriptware] , theindustry-standard word processing software for film and televisionscriptwriters, and is the CEO of Cinovation, Inc, publishers ofScriptware [cite web
title = The Secret life of self-help books
url = http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/193263
publisher = Mid Oregon Production Arts Network (MOPAN)
accessdate = 2008-07-24] , which was released in November 1992.

His varied career includes time as a street-performer in Washington DCand New York City (1979-1983), a professional comedian based in NewYork City (1984-1993) with appearances on HBO, MTV and Fox Television,the co-host of the internationally syndicated, Emmy award winning [cite web
title = 1998 Heartland Winners
url = http://www.emmyawards.tv/archives/1998_winners.php
publisher = National Television Academy
accessdate = 2008-07-24] "Disk Doctors" [cite web
title = Computer platforms for one and all
url = http://www.wendytownley.com/index.php?page=63
publisher = Wendy Townley / The Reader
accessdate = 2008-07-24] [ cite web
title = Disk Doctors Re-animated
url = http://www.toddstauffer.com/2007/09/disk-doctors-re-animated/
publisher = Todd Stauffer.
accessdate = 2008-07-24] on the KnowledgeTV Network (a Jones Cable channel), and Internet Marketingconsultant.

Steven was an All-America gymnast in 1980 at Walt Whitman High School.He did his undergraduate work in cognitive psychology, specializing incognitive aspects of perception and motor skill acquisition, at DukeUniversity and graduated Summa Cum Laude with the class of 1984. Hehas an MFA in film, with a focus on screenwriting, from ColumbiaUniversity, 1990.

He is married to Lena Phoenix, author of [http://theheartofacult.com The Heart of a Cult] and they have two Bengal cats.

Steven writes "The Anti-Guru Blog," [cite web
title = Workshop Presenters - STEVE SASHEN
url = http://www.mopan.org/sashen.html
publisher = The Toronto Star
accessdate = 2008-07-24] which is a comic look at so-called spiritual teachers and their methods. [cite web
title = This is one Secret that UWO can keep to itself
url = http://www.lfpress.com/newsstand/News/Columnists/Gillespie_Ian/2007/08/22/4437275.html
publisher = London Free Press
accessdate = 2008-07-24]

Steven also teaches Quantum Wealth, The Instant Advanced Meditation Course and The Work of Byron Katie.

The Work of Byron Katie is a simple series of questions that helps usto discover the source of stress and discomfort in a way that can leadto finding understanding and peacefulness, instead. Steven is a formercurriculum director for Katie's School for The Work (2000-2001) and hetaught with her at the school. Quantum Wealth is an unusual approach tounderstanding money and our financial lives in a way that allows oneto replace confusion and difficulty with clarity and effective action.

The Instant Advanced Meditation Course (I AM Course) is a collectionof unique meditation techniques that, rather than asking thepractitioner to do something *to* their thinking or awareness (e.g.watch your thoughts without judgement), points attention at theprocess of awareness itself -- this leads to dramatic experiences in avery short time even for people with no history of meditationpractice.

Prior to developing the I AM Course, Steven had been a meditator since 1970Dubious|date=September 2008 and a practitioner of Vipassana meditation in the lineage of U Ba Khin since 1984.

References

External links

* [http://www.scriptware.com Scriptware]
* [http://www.sashen.com Steven Sashen]