I've never met Dr Wenger, but his book "The Einstein Factor" changed my life.  To this day, I remember the moment I began to trust my perceptions - that was 21 years ago!

 Thank you so much for your life's work. 

I first read Win Wenger and Richard Poe’s book The Einstein Factor in grade school. He generously answered my questions about the book via e-mail and I have used his methods effectively for many years. I was going to send him a message, but sadly learned he had died. Thank you so much Win! You will be missed.

When I first met Dr. Win Wenger almost like thirteen years ago, I was working for a company called SSI in Tokyo.  
SSI invited Dr. Wenger and his wife Susan,
to hold some seminars in a several cities in Japan. 
I was a guid and a translater for them then. 
Win and Susan were very nice to me and taught me a lot of things. 
We spent several days together in Japan and shared a lot of fun experiences.
I never forget those wonderful memories.
I hope you two remember those days, too.

And just now, I googled your name and I found that you passed.
I am so sad that my heart can't find anything to say.

Dr. Wenger, please rest in peace and keep watching over us from the above.

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Dr.Wenger gave me his autograph on my dictionary. 
I attached the photo of it.



I never met Win, but I found his website in high school and it changed my life.

His work opened up my eyes to the depth of human potential and I've had a deep curiosity for how our mental imagery can change our lives ever since.

I've been deeply touched by his work in more ways than I can express here and I am deeply saddened by his passing. I wish I could have met him and expressed all the ways that his work has changed my life.

He will be forever missed but his legacy will continue to live on.

Never met him in person.. but he was always there with his books.. as teacher, 
mentor and Guide... His website was one of my brightest internet find for past over 20 years... 

Sajid

Win was a brilliant man, living in a world that could not understand him.  He bore that burden with patience and humility.

I learned so very much from Win. His book, Einstien Factor, was the brilliant work that inspired me, taught me and guided me when I was a new Hypnotherapist 27 years ago. I was able to call him and have long discussions on the phone, with him giving me personal help for work with my clients. 
A Brilliant man and a generous soul.  Very sad to hear of his passing.

I was sad to hear of the passing of Win.
Although I have never met him in person, I am a follower of his work, especially Image Streaming and The Einstein Factor.
Win has created a system of learning and development the like of which I have never seen in my many years of coaching.
This work is so important that I truly hope that it becomes ever more known and used around the world. It has helped me both professionally and personally. It’s clear that Win had a passion for seeing people grow and develop. Clearly a true genius with a wonderful human spirit, one that we could do well to model in these challenging times. 

My heartfelt condolences to Win’s wife, children, and grandchildren.
    I first met Dr. Wenger at an International Alliance for Learning Conference in Houston, in 1998.  We were both attending a breakout workshop when I happen to notice his name tag.  I asked if he was the same Dr. Wenger whose great research and books I had been reading for the past decade.  He said, “Why yes, I think I am.”  We began a discussion that lead to a friendship wherein he always made me feel comfortable and accepted.  As an Accelerated Learning Spanish facilitator, Win influenced me greatly with his compassionate, and sweet nature.  He was a great friend and role model. His teachings live on and will continue to help shape our world for the better.  

 Barry Carstetter

Your eighty-four years of existence has touched mine twenty-seven years in. I hope to have a similar effect on others by eighty-four as you've had on me. Thank you for having existed. 

Dear Susan, 
The mutual high regard and love so freely flowing between you and Win was a gift to behold.
Win and his profound teaching, offered with that twinkle in his eye, meant so much to me.
Wishing you and your family comfort.
Thank you for coming to Canada for so many years so we could enjoy the treasures you and Win shared with our community.
With love,
Laila 

Dear Win
in your brand new house now you will be surrounded by your insipiring thoughts, incredible visions, amazing ideas and, once more, come out with new questions. We met at CPSI in the nineties, and mine were the first steps in the field of the “real creativity”. I will never forget the way you sat there, looked at us, and shared your unforgettable visions. Thanks to you I discovered that there is so much more in us than what we can even think. Maybe you will meet Einstein and his factor. Please take care of your beautiful mind.

Here's a slideshow of Win Wenger's family life. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhzefbE8T0


Dear family and friends of Win,

yesterday evening I was contemplating how Image Streaming would relate to something I had just read. Then I "heard" Win say: "You perceive more and better if you focus on the inner world, because this is where the sensory input of ALL senses is present at the same time. Focus on one sense and you lose all the others." 

So I focused on what my inner world related to me about the noises I was hearing in the background and described that to myself (in thought). Suddenly I got the impulse to check emails on my phone. Doing this I realized I had just gotten an email from Pete Bisonette of Learning Strategies where he related the sad news of Win's passing and a short tribute.

After reading the details on the page here, I was very sad until I realized that Win himself had just given me an incredible gift. The master had me realize the truth and depth of his wisdom by giving me this experience as a farewell gift.

Win, I'm very glad you became my friend through your books, courses and website. And, indeed, it is not a farewell, for you will stay with me as a mentor and torch of sanity and of what it means to be human... and ohh... the potential.

Volker Knöringer, Germany



Win was a rare exceptional unique human being.   I treasured our long hours of in-person conversation - from our first meeting at Cambridge College Accelerated Learning to my life changing awareness at a 1990 & later 1992 CPSI wonderous weeks + 2 Mensa meetings later which contributed to my  discovery of MultiDimensional Thinking & recent development of Viteracy & DynaGram which frees humanity from the shackles of linear literacy & Visual Thinking Blinders.  Win will always be present in my mind as a dear kindred spirit.  Much condolences to his soul mate & enabler Susan Wenger.

Dr. Robert D. Solomon, PhD, MIT
rdsolomon@alum.mit.edu




Dear Win,

You have been a teacher unlike any other. Behind your gentle personality and fine penmanship I found profound wisdom and true inspiration. 

Thank you and may Susan and your loved ones stay strong.

Dimis

Win's work will be discovered more widely---and the world needs (more than ever!) positive and innovative ways of solving our problems. His great contributions will live and be ever more appreciated!


Dear Mrs Wenger and family of Mr Wenger,

I am saddened by the message I just received of the passing away of Mr Win Wenger, your dear husband, father, grandfather, and great teacher, as he certainly was to everyone who put his teachings into practice. I have only very recently discovered Mr Wenger’s work (about a month ago) and it has already profoundly enriched, and indeed changed, my life. Especially his technique of “borrowed genius” has allowed me to overcome blocks in my music-making that I hadn’t been able to solve even with the use of a host of other techniques. He will be dearly missed for everything he offered the world.

With heartfelt condolances,

Manou Schreiner

He was talking at the first conference I went to as a young Experiential Development trainer. Organised by SEAL - the society for effective affective learing, it opened my eyes to ways of working I'd not dreamed of. Win introduced NLP strategies in the form of a string of  incomprehensible shorthand. However, I fell in love with NLP and trained with Ian MacDermot for years and subsequently Art Guiser, the creator of Energetic NLP.

Thank you for influencing us in your own subtle yet impressing way.
Stein Hval, Norway 

My condolences to his loved ones at this time. He inspired me to look behind the looking glass when my visionary skills needed honing and not aligned! Only a short time the invite from his lesson was available? He lives on from his skills of visionary intuit from above as a GUIDE now!

Rosslyn

Thank you, Win Wenger for your work on genius code! Your memory will live on forever in your work!

Knowing Win for oh-so many years at CPSI was such a treat.
Discussing new ideas with him was like trying to drink from a firehose.  The ideas and insights would flow faster than I could easily absorb them.  I often turned to him to get a new perspective on an old perception.  I grieve now realizing this creative genius and friend is no longer adding to our world.

Dear Susan and family, Thank you for being Win's partner and working together with him so powerfully. I remember the building happiness sessions you offered at the Creative Problem Solving Institute a few years ago. They were astonishingly effective. Your collaboration with Win gave a climate of joy and workability for Win to operate from. In celebrating Win's genius and remarkable ways he got that across being usable, functional, and operative in people's lives including my own your magnitude of love gave voice and depth to letting love win. Thank you to all Win's family for your vast contribution to Win's life and happiness. Yours in celebration and love for Win and his love for all of you, Marilyn Moe Fiedler and on behalf of all whose lives Win impacted and will continue through his work to inspire

I have been able to attend workshops of professor Wenger several times. It always felt like going to a party. A feast of creativity that you experienced like a dry sponge, ready to be absorbed with his knowledge, wisdom and experience. I will never forget his empathy. A person for whom sharing was at the top of his dictionary. Rest in peace Professor Wenger

Sjra Puts, Netherlands

We’ve love lost one of the greatest pillars of the our creativity community. A man who was extremely generous in sharing knowledge, insight and resources. No matter how much we learned from him, we just couldn’t get enough. Rest In Peace Win 

Some people touch you and thus change your life forever. When CPSI first came to Chicago, I met Win in one of those late night courses - Image Streaming prospered in my mind and thinking !
  Here are some thoughts that remind me of Win:  Keep learning - enjoy challenge - tolerate ambiguity - listen -  in the end there are no certain answers.

   Ubuntu, Patrick Garinger

Win was one of my first teachers at CPSI over 30 years ago. He taught me a lot about reflective facilitation and many more topics related to the mind. 
His gentleness allowed one to approach him with questions and he always had time for brainstorming with you. 
He made a difference in my life and I’ll always be grateful for his teachings. 
Jack Wolf

Susan and Family

I will always think of Win as one of the most kind, loving, and giving souls I was blessed to meet. I benefitted from so many sessions and informal times with Win and you and can only imagine the vast assembly of folks that Win influenced and helped. A simple example is the large number of young students in the Buffalo area that benefitted from the training Win did with the faculties of local schools.

A life well lived. I am sure he rests in peace.

Joe Spahn



I met Win as a participant in Project Renaissance.  Win brought a profoundly positive method to potentiate humanity that continues in all those Project Renaissance touched. 

God bless your soul! Very sorry to hear this...excellent human being!!!

Win Wenger was one of the first and only people at the very beginning of my research who encouraged me and understood what I was trying to achieve with my work. Always ready to learn, eternally curious and a fine, fine thinker as well as a wonderful human being, he brought his joy of discovery of the human spirit to so many people. I have inscribed his name in my Book of Stars and wish him the very best on his never ending journey, with all my love.  

First discovered Win when attending my first CPSI. He was certainly encouraging us to open our minds. Had the good fortune to interact with Win and Susan at many subsequent CPSIs. Am glad to have known this gentleman and his original thinking. 
Sending prayers, energy and fond memories to Susan and her family.


I first experienced a workshop of Win's in 1978 where he used guided imagery experiences. Over the next few years I got to know WIN.  Since then Win has been one of my greatest teachers, colleagues and friends as we saw each other at many creativity conferences each year: CPSI, Mindcamp, FCW, ACRE, A.C.E.

Thank you for your knowledge and techniques you shared.

Thank you for your true friendship for so many years.

Win is my mentor, my teacher, my inspiration. A giant among giants as a human and a professor among teachers as a mentor and coach. Love, inspiration, patience, insights, mind bending, fun, embrace are words that come to mind when I think of Win. Suzanne this is straight from the heart. I will miss him...

Win and CPSI are synonymous in my memory. He and Sid together thinking, sharing and pondering possibilities fill my recollections. Susan, Reg and I send our condolences. We notice that arrangements are being handled by Lindsey here in Harrisonburg.  May there be peace in this coming full circle. In typical times we would be there with you to pay our respects. Our thoughts are with you.   

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Clarence Windom "Win" Wenger Jr., Ph.D.

April 27, 1938 – January 7, 2021

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