“At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability” (Inner Workbooks S.), 1992 by Ira Progoff (Author) – Buy at Amazon.co.uk

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface 7
1 The Intensive Journal as an Instrument for Life 9
2 The Beginnings of the Intensive Journal 16
Seeking the Tao of Growth 16
The Value and Limitations of Diaries and Journals 23
3 Operating Principles 30
The Dynamics ofJournal Feedback 30
Reaching the Elan Vital: Mini-Processes and the
Dimensions of Existence 39
4 Privacy in the Group: The Atmosphere and Rules
ofa Journal Workshop 46
5 Beginning the journal Work: The Period Log 64
6 Twilight Imagery and Its Life Correlation:
The Period Image 77
7 Keeping the Daily Log 86
8 Working in the Life/Time Dimension  98
Loosening the Soil of our Lives  98
Listing the Steppingstones  102
9 Exploring the Stcppingstone Periods  119
Journal Checklist  126
10 The Hinge of Memory and Possibility  131
The Life History Log  132; Intersections: Roads Taken and Not Taken 133
11 Time-Stretching  140
Moving Back and Forward in our Life History  140
Reconstructing our Autobiography  153
12 Toward Inner Relationship: Dialogue with Persons  158
13 Dialogue with Works  178
14 Dialogue with the Body  194
15 Dialogue with Events, Situations and Circumstances  210
16 Working with our Dreams  228
17 Dialogue with Society  253
18 Inner Wisdom Dialogue  269
19 Now: The Open Moment  285
20 After a Journal Workshop 290
Appendix 298
The Registered IntensiveJournal 301