The Intensive Journal Process is one of the
great inventions of our time.
Joseph Campbell
Philosopher and Author of The Power of Myth
The Intensive Journal method is an effective tool to help you get in touch with and
work through your feelings and emotions related to the many facets of your life. Dr.
Progoff has created an integrated system for working with imagery, meditation, and the
inner process of your life. This excellent method of journal writing can help you to
develop self-esteem and self-understanding, take control of your life, reduce stress, get
in touch with your body and so much more.
Bernie Siegel, M.D.
Author and Lecturer
When people ask me how to keep a Diary, I refer them to Ira Progoff's Intensive Journal [method]....One cannot help being amazed by what emerges from this skilled inner journey. All the elements we attribute to the poet, the artist, become available to everyone, to all levels of society.
Anais Nin
Diarist
Ira Progoff and the [Intensive Journal] Workshop made a tremendous impact on my writing. I consider the journals and the texts written by Progoff to be powerful tools in the creative process.
Judy Collins
Artist, Writer and Entertainer
Dr. Progoff developed his theories of personal growth that led to the Intensive Journal method in his book, The Symbolic and the Real. The principles given in this book are excellent. This is a very good approach, especially all that he says about the negative and diagnostic type of analysis which just binds people more firmly to their obsessions. His idea of a positive therapy which loosens up the flow of psychic and living dynamism is fine...the book is very worthwhile.
The School of Charity Letters, p. 309
Thomas Merton
Philosopher and Author
I believe that Ira Progoff's Intensive Journal method is one of the most effective tools available to use in self-directed personal change.
Willis Harman
Former President
Institute of Noetic Sciences
We have found it to be a powerful tool for our students in accessing their spiritual and
psychological depths. When we offer the Intensive Journal program to the public we
are assured of a quality experience for the participants.
Dwight H. Judy, Ph.D.
Chairperson of External Division
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Menlo Park, California
Learning the Intensive Journal method greatly enriched my personal development and gave me the means to discover new spiritual insights...
Bishop Bennett J. Sims
Bishop Emeritus
Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
Progoff's Intensive Journal method helps persons identify the meaning and direction in their life and thereby pursue a compatible career with success and fulfillment.
Ronald Miller
Vice President
Paul/Brown Search
Recruiting and Personnel Advisory Services
From personal experience since 1977 I know this program is an excellent resource for personal growth, which unites psychological and spiritual dimensions. It is also a helpful discipline and path of discovery for clients, and a program appropriate for Samaritan Center sponsorship.
James R. Laurie
Associate Director
The Samaritan Institute
One person who has made...reminiscing available to
people in a nonthreatening and creative form is Ira Progoff...with his method of Intensive
Journal process. As a gerontological practitioner I have found his method to be most
helpful for a number of older persons with whom I have worked. It is particularly helpful
for older people who are living alone and do not have the opportunity for dialogue and
oral reminiscence with others.
(Reminiscence and the Self in Old Age, p. 213)
Edmund Sherman
Author and Faculty Research Associate
in the Ringel Inst. of Gerontology
at the State University of New York at Albany
Dr. Progoff has been most effective in helping people bring their lives into focus with deep respect for the faith tradition in which so many are rooted. I can only hope and pray that his resource will continue to be available for another generation as it has helped us.
Msgr. William Baumgaertner
Former Associate Director
Association of Theological Schools
Dr. Ira Progoff through his spirit, love and consciousness of the joy of living, is a constant inspiration to me and countless Unity ministers, students members and friends. The Intensive Journal method revealed and developed through him is a powerful and permanent contribution to the wakening of humanity.