How it Works

The content of the isa Experience is drawn from a wide range of sources.

The environment created in the Experience encourages you to explore this information openly and relate it to your life. This exploration occurs through three channels of interaction and communication.

The first is your interaction with the material presented by the facilitator. Each segment of information is offered for you to examine and apply to the context of your personal experience.

The second channel is your interaction with other participants. As you and the others share and ask questions of the facilitator, and talk during breaks, you will serve as each other’s reminders and mirrors, stimulating emotions, memories, and insights, leading to a powerful, internal recognition of self.

The third and most important channel is your relationship with yourself. Special exercises have been designed to enable you to recall specific events in your life and examine them with a new clarity. The Experience broadens the context in which you view your actions and experiences. You will see yourself with a greater sense of wholeness and balance, and begin to act in harmony with who you really are.

Although it is encouraged, active participation is not required to get value from the Experience. You may or may not participate, as you wish. You may or may not ask questions, as you choose. That doesn’t affect the results for yourself, except, perhaps, in measure. The more you participate, the more you will learn. Many participants who are initially hesitant to speak in groups discover the environment to be safe and supportive, and find it easy to share their insights and questions.

The isa Experience transforms your relationship to life by assisting you in expanding and clarifying your knowledge of yourself. Using this information, you can move from the receiving end of the circumstances in your life into a position of initiating and controlling them.

We usually go through life thinking we are in a certain mould or mode, and because that is how we think we are, it looks to us as though that’s the way we actually are. If, for example, you think you are timid or shy, then you will behave as if you are shy and will accumulate lots of evidence to prove it. Each time you approach a new situation that challenges this belief, you will think you are shy and that is exactly the result you will get, thus reinforcing your belief and perpetuating the pattern. Most of us have accumulated many barriers such as this, and we don’t dare explore anymore. Something in us is ”frozen”, so whatever dissatisfaction we have continues. The isa Experience provides you with an opportunity to be and experience yourself as otherwise, as you discover a whole realm of qualities and talents you weren’t in touch with before, primarily as a result of your old thinking pattern. During the course of the isa Experience, some quality in all of us, which we have not recognised before, starts to emerge.

It is how you see life, and how you approach what life has to offer, that is transformed.

isa is not a belief system, nor is it a substitute for religion. Nuns, monks, clergy and lay people of many denominations and religions, as well as agnostics and atheists, have participated in the Experience.

It is not therapy, encounter, positive thinking, or intellectual theory. It is not designed to change you; it is designed to expand who you are as a person, in order for you to achieve the results you want in your life.