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How do you proceed in the Intensive Journal method after a workshop?

After you attend a workshop, it is recommended that you periodically work in your Intensive Journal workbook. This use will help you become skilled in using the method as well as develop the material that you have begun in the workshop.

There are no set rules with regard to how often the method should be used. Some people find that it is helpful to set up a regular time to use the method. There may be times when you use the method frequently, and other times when you use it less. Your life will tell you how best to proceed.

You may also choose to attend another workshop of the same module or the next module in the series to further your knowledge of the Intensive Journal method. The workshop provides the group atmosphere and discipline for using the method.

Using the method is a cumulative process with the benefits coming over time. Dr. Progoff states:


           “Since the principle underlying Journal Feedback is that of cumulative
            movement,  maintaining the Journal work has a multiplying effect if it is
            allowed to continue over significant units of time.. The key to working
            with the Intensive Journal process productively lies in the quality and
            quantity of the method that we feed into it....the Journal can feed back to
            us in self-transforming ways the material that we have recorded in it.”

 At a Journal Workshop (rev. ed), p. 368.