QUOTES FROM THE MEDIA
WEEKEND [INTENSIVE JOURNAL] WORKSHOP PROMOTES SEARCH FOR MEANING, DIRECTION...Dr. Progoff is the antithesis of New Age guru and, unlike the splashier leaders of self-help movements, seems indifferent to empire-building.
The Baltimore Sun
April 25, 1988, p. B1
[The Intensive Journal method is] a tool for gaining a perspective on your life...to understand where you are, what got you to this point and where your inner creative force or “process”, as Progoff calls it, wants to take you next.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
July 24, 1989
Perhaps this is one reason for the popularity of Progoff’s Intensive Journal method today: people feel poor and alone and devoid of ultimate meaning in their lives. In the Intensive Journal workshops, they have found a way to remedy that....Progoff has gotten precisely those secularized Americans in a search for meaning.
Psychology Today
March, 1981
...simple system to help you operate at your highest level...
Bottom Line
August, 1990
...journal-keeping was popularized and formalized by Ira Progoff, who wrote books and taught workshops on how to use a journal as a "workbook for personal growth."
The Episcopalian
Vol 149. No. 9, September, 1984
...People have used journals and diaries for years to sort out personal problems, relieve stress, record dreams and life experiences and keep track of spiritual growth....One of the most popular techniques, the Intensive Journal Process, developed by psychologist Ira Progoff, Ph.D. is taught in workshops all over the United States...
Prevention Magazine
January, 1992
Quotable Quotes: "The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person." Ira Progoff
Reader's Digest
January, 1986
While theologians talk a good game about the primacy of experience over dogmatism, perhaps few in the United States have done quite as much as Progoff to evolve a proxis for the principle. His [book] At a Journal Workshop...was designed to facilitate the capacity to listen to, and interpret, the symbolic language of the soul; this one pushes these methods further, into meditation and the realm of spirit....The genius of the method lies in its ability to organize the life...
Commonweal
July, 1984
...I saw how my journal could be a valuable tool for self-discovery. The workshop was led by Ira Progoff,.. Keeping a journal gives us a chart of our lives; it expands and deepens our vision of ourselves....The best introduction of the "Intensive Journal" [method] is through one of the hundreds of workshops offered around the country...(and abroad) by "journal consultants" trained by Ira Progoff.
New Woman
January, 1987, p. 61
The Intensive Journal Process...A comprehensive look at the extraordinary approach to self-discovery that has helped thousands of people to express their fullest potential.
Science of Mind
July, 1992, pp. 40-50
Progoff developed the Intensive Journal method as a structured technique that could help people answer questions about the meaning in their lives....It is a tool that can be useful for years and years, in the ongoing process of making one's life a work of art.Whole Life-New York
January/February, 1986, p. 12