ABOUT INSIGHT
 

Overview

Insight Seminars is an international non-profit educational organization* headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA.  Founded 30 years ago, Insight operates throughout the world including North America, South America, Australia, Europe, Russia, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

More than one million worldwide have participated in the Insight Seminar Series.  With our advanced educational technology and heartfelt focus, Insight provides participants with practical tools to support them in living more authentic, successful, and abundant lives. 

Since 1978 Insight has been providing opportunities for men and women, children and teens to experience more of the natural magnificence of who they truly are. 

Our seminars literally guide participants into the awareness of how life can be better - for themselves and others - when they are living compassionately, making choices from the perspective of what we call their "heart." The process is so profound that it transforms the way they look at, and live, their lives. It creates a greater experience of loving, inner peace, health, wealth, success, happiness and joy that becomes a template for how life can be - if they choose it.

Insight is now also available for the business community, serving companies large and small, creating corporate transformation and strategic success through the Business Insight Seminar, Teaming Insight, Leadership Insight, Executive Transformational Coaching in addition to customized programs - all designed to bring the heart of the work of Insight into assisting companies in better serving their employees, customers and communities.


What is Insight Seminars?

From relationships and family, to career and health, Insight Seminars brings within your reach specific, clear, and effective tools that are guaranteed to enhance your life.  Yes….GUARANTEED!

Insight Seminars are educational processes.  The focus of the seminars is what we call the "heart," the center of our authentic Self.  Each seminar involves doing, thinking, feeling, and just being.  Carefully structured processes of brief lectures, personalized one-to-one exercises, group and individual sharings, guided creative imagery, and fun games build day-by-day, creating for participants an experience of loving and caring for themselves and others.  The seminar atmosphere is one of unconditional acceptance, safety, and support.

When people ask,"What is Insight about" we say,"It's about you and accessing your own unique wisdom". The Insight Seminar Series works like a mirror by providing opportunities to see how you do things that support you and are for your advancement and how you do things that undermine you and work to your disadvantage.

"Discover how you can transform your life experience in greater ways than you may have previously thought possible."

The awareness you discover combined with the tools presented in the seminar will give you the opportunity to significantly improve your personal and professional performance in all areas of your life. Some keys or tools may be new to you and some may not.

Insight provides the keys, however you have to unlock and open the door. You will be the one who determines whether or not you get something out of Insight. The more fully you participate, the more value you will receive.

"Participate in your experience and experience your participation."




What our Graduates Say

For many of us, our sense of purpose and enthusiasm for life has become muddied or perhaps dissipated, as the demands of work, family, and financial commitments can seem to consume our every moment and dictate our every choice.  If we stop running, we’ll fall behind.  Life often becomes more about survival than living, and the sense of a greater purpose can be lost, or put on the back burner.  As we disconnect from our sense of purpose, we may experience less joy, fulfillment, and love.

Insight defines success both as achieving outer goals, and as experiencing the fulfillment that comes with having a meaningful, rewarding, and enjoyable life.  Those who are truly successful are those who see their lives as extensions of themselves and as opportunities to express their passion, values, and creativity.

Using simple techniques of awareness, the Insight Seminar Series is designed to reconnect you to your heart, to your deepest inner truth of knowing and wisdom, From here, you naturally align to your higher sense of purpose, manifesting the freedom and enthusiasm that accompany that purpose.  As you begin to understand yourself more deeply, you will begin to tap into a level of greater clarity regarding what you want, both materially and experientially.  From this self-discovered place of clarity, you define your life, rather than trying to fit yourself into previously defined roles.

This awareness, coupled with new skills and techniques for building self-trust, effective risk-taking, and improved communications, provides the self-confidence and focus necessary to effectively move forward in your life. By applying the techniques and principles of the seminars, you can and will take this new clarity of purpose and sense of renewed vitality back out into all areas of your life.




The Benefits

Each of us has within us the necessary qualities and strengths for achieving the quality of life we desire and deserve. Investing in our personal development allows us to see, acknowledge, and build upon those qualities that will help shift the things that don't work in our lives while reinforcing the things that do.

Insight graduates affirm that the seminar has impacted their lives personally and professionally in the following ways by:

  • Increasing self-confidence and self-esteem
  • Broadening awareness of one's Self, potential and positive qualities
  • Improving in clarity of one's objectives, ambitions and projections
  • Enhancing a positive attitude towards life
  • Increasing the ability to solve problems and to take personal responsibility for one's life
  • Learning clear, effective communication
  • Liberating oneself from limiting beliefs and self-judgments
  • Managing stress more effectively
  • Experiencing greater compassion for one's Self and others
  • Creating an inner place of peace, a "portable paradise" wherein one can be centered even in the midst of chaos
  • Learning to trust one's inner wisdom
  • Embracing one's Spirit, celebrating one's heart




Insight's Mission


Insight is here to assist us in transforming ourselves into loving so that the greater transformation of the planet to loving will take place.




Insight's Guiding Principles

  • Take care of yourself so you can help take care of others.
  • Don't hurt yourself and don't hurt others.
  • Use everything for your upliftment, growth and learning.


Insight's History and Heritage


Insight Seminars was founded in 1978 by John-Roger, an international educator, author, and speaker.  He, along with Russell Bishop, a personal growth facilitator and workshop designer, created the first Insight I Seminar.  One hundred and fifty-one people who had been studying spiritually with John-Roger through the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) gathered in Santa Monica, California in January 1978 to pioneer what was then a one off experiment in personal growth education.

Insight I: The Awakening Heart Seminar, now the first in The Insight Seminar Series, was created out of this community's shared desire to gain practical tools for becoming more effective and successful in their lives.  Since its beginning, over a million people have attended Insight Seminars throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Greece, Canada, Russia, Spain, Israel, South America, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean Basin, Puerto Rico, Africa, and Australia.

Insight’s roots come from MSIA - these are spiritual roots based with the core values of loving, integrity, and service - and roots that form the basis of our three ground rules found in all of the work we do.  Insight’s very first seminar was offered to students who had been studying with John-Roger in MSIA who wanted to learn how to live their lives more effectively in the world, Today Insight is an independent international educational organization, welcoming and embracing people of all faiths, beliefs, sizes, shapes, races, genders, etc.



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John-Roger
Founder of Insight Seminars

John-Roger is an educator in the broadest sense of the word, assisting people in becoming more aware of the Spirit in themselves and others and making the most out of their lives.  His teachings are full of wisdom, humor, common sense, and, above all, loving.

Since the early 1960’s, John-Roger has traveled the world teaching how to live a healthy, loving, peaceful, and rewarding life.  He has given over 5,000 seminars, many of which are available on CD’s and DVD’s.

John-Roger is a prolific writer, with over 50 books to his name and four Bestsellers, including a #1 NY Times Bestseller. To keep up with his writing, John-Roger founded Mandeville Press, an independent publishing house that publishes books offering a contemporary look at ancient wisdom.  His newest books, Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, Living Love, and What's It Like Being You? (written with Dr. Paul Kaye), are available for order online through Amazon.com as well as through bookstores.

The common thread throughout all of John-Roger's work is the encouragement for each person to discover the loving within them. In all that he does, he encourages people to check out for themselves the information he presents, and through their own experience see how it works to bring them to create more abundance, joy and loving in their lives. Throughout the years, he has transformed the lives of thousands of people by educating them in the wisdom of the Spiritual Heart.

In addition to Insight Seminars, John-Roger has founded several other non-profit organizations - all dedicated to educate people in the wisdom of the heart and how to live more loving, abundant, and joy-filled lives. These include: The University of Santa Monica (USM), The Institute for Individual and World Peace (IIWP), The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy (PTS), and the Heartfelt Foundation.

To find out more information about John-Roger and the organizations he supports visit www.john-roger.org


John Morton
Insight's Spiritual Director

John Morton's life is dedicated to promoting peace and to assisting people in discovering the good, the Spirit, and the blessings within themselves and everything. In addition to being Insight's Spiritual Director, John is one of Insight's Senior Facilitators and serves on our Board of Directors.

John is known for his ability to lift and inspire listeners with his gentleness and practical approach. In all of the work that he does, John focuses on the good in all and sharing that goodness with others. His devotion to this work of the Spirit is an inspiration to those touched by his example. Both of his books, The Blessings Already Are (available through Amazon.com and in bookstores nationwide), and his upcoming You Are The Blessings (coming out in 2008), are practical and inspirational guides to finding the blessings in everyday life and offer the reader an opportunity to view life through the eyes of loving and acceptance.

Since 1979 John has worked closely with John-Roger and traveled the world to conduct seminars and workshops through many of the organizations he supports, including: Insight Seminars, The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (where he currently serves as Spiritual Director), Peace Theological Seminary & College of Philosophy (PTS), The Institute for Individual and World Peace (IIWP). John currently facilitates regular live webcasts focusing on spiritual awareness on such subjects as Loving Relationships, Finding Peace in Today's World and The Blessings Already Are.

John co-founded the Good Works Foundation dedicated to supporting innovative charitable causes including education, the arts and the environment. He also serves on the Boards of the University of Santa Monica and the New Visions Foundation.

John's life is a living example of someone dedicated to serving humankind. John's commitment to serve and assist others, often in difficult or challenging situations, has inspired him to make humanitarian journeys to such places as the Middle East, South Africa, Nigeria, Colombia and Afghanistan. He is known for his ability to find the blessings in any situation and to assist others in doing the same.


Russell Bishop
Creator of Insight Seminars

Russell Bishop is a pioneer in the field of transformational education.  After being integral in creating and leading Insight Seminars to prominence in the field of personal growth and awareness, Russell co-founded the Insight Consulting Group and Productivity Development Group.  Applying the same principles taught in Insight - awareness, responsibility, and communication - to the corporate world, Russell has become a thought leader on the challenges of implementing strategic change.

Continuing to focus on the human elements or successful business growth, Russell current serves as a senior consultant with Vantage Partners, LLC. An expert in negotiation and relationship management, Russell has worked around the world with Fortune 500 companies in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Russell brings 30 years of consulting and operating experience to his practice, helping companies in how they plan, form, operate, review and adjust critical partnerships. His work focuses primarily on two key areas of partnering: how organizations form and manage strategic alliances and how they manage key supplier relationships.

In addition to his consulting practice, Russell is a key note speaker and has lectured on productivity for the executive MBA programs at UCLA, University of Texas and Washington University in St. Louis. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the University of Santa Monica and was a charter member of the Advisory Board for the Points of Light Foundation. He received a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from the Davis Campus of the University of California.