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Established in 1977, the Institute for Self-Actualization (isa) Experience operates seminars and workshops worldwide designed to help people achieve their life goals and transform the way they think about wholeness, internal and external balance, and controlling life’s obstacles and opportunities. The enlightenment organization holds annual seminars globally, including in Nashville, Tennessee; Bradford, England; Stockholm, Sweden; and Sydney, Australia.
One of the isa Experience’s cornerstone activities is isa Outdoors, an event that brings together the graduates of isa programs and their families for a weekend of bonding, relationship building, and networking. Participants of isa Outdoors engage in exciting athletic activities, such as rock climbing, kayaking, and ropes courses, as well as trust-development exercises, team-building games, art courses, a talent show, and similar events. Participants also further their connections with the natural world and share their experiences with the isa programs. The weekend includes all meals and accommodations in dormitories. The next all-inclusive isa Outdoors will take place at the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation in April 2012. Visit www.isaexperience.com for more information.
The isa Experience, part of The Institute for Self-Actualization, provides participants with an opportunity to learn how to become positive forces for change within their own lives. It is not a religious experience, nor is it traditional psychotherapy. The program is appropriate for people of all ages and backgrounds, although children ages 6 to 13 must participate in the Young Person’s Experience (YPE).
The YPE is a 10-day residential camp designed to provide the same information as the adult isa Experience, but the program is formatted in a way that appeals to the unique needs of a younger age group. Some of the topics discussed in camp workshops include responsibility, self esteem, courage, integrity, family relationships, and basic wilderness training. At the end of the YPE, parents join their children to participate in a series of family exercises. For this reason, it is required that children registering in the YPE program have at least one parent who has previously completed the isa Experience.
After more than 33 years of providing people with a supportive, enlightening four-day journey into greater knowledge of themselves, the Institute for Self-Actualization and its community of graduates have expanded over international and continental boundaries, offering the isa Experience in four countries located in Europe, North America, and Australia. A brief overview of the Institute’s English-speaking chapters follows by country:
Australia
The isa Experience in Australia was founded by two graduates of the program from the United Kingdom. Since holding their first Experience with 82 participants in December 2000, they have helped the Australian isa community grow significantly. The program now offers a regular schedule of Experiences and Post Experience seminars in Sydney; in addition, isa Australia has scheduled four events over the course of 2012, including three Experiences and a Graduate Intensive Training seminar.
The United States of America
Ole P. Larsen held the first isa Experience in the United States in 1977 to help others increase their awareness and enhance the wholeness of their lives. He was guided by the principle that if the Experience were to survive and be passed on to others, its graduates would have to share in the work of recreating it. That precept has led to a thriving U.S. isa community, in which isa assistants host events across the country and meet weekly to support one another. U.S. isa events are planned in Kentucky and Indiana for 2012.
The United Kingdom
The U.K. chapter of the isa Experience, founded by a television producer from Leeds, England, who also helped put together a documentary about the workshop, has been in existence since 1986. The chapter offers the Experience approximately every six weeks and boasts a strong network of isa assistants and graduates countrywide. Upcoming U.K. events include numerous sessions of the Experience as well as several Graduate Intensive Training workshops.
The isa Experience has helped people around the world find new satisfaction in their lives over many years, building a powerful network of graduates living as richly as possible. For more information on the isa Experience or to register online for an isa event near you, please visit the organization’s website at www.isaexperience.com.
Founded by Ole Larsen in 1977, The Institute for Self-Actualization aims to assist people in achieving a greater sense of wholeness and satisfaction through the isa Experience. The program consists of a series of seminars held around the world.
With upcoming seminars and events in Louisville, Kentucky; Stockholm, Sweden; Bradford, England; and Sydney, Australia, the isa Experience reaches out to people all over the world to help them discover new levels of growth and encourage the same development in others. At the foundation of the isa Experience is the principle that each person is the best judge of what they need. The isa Experience does not seeks to change or improve people. The program aims to help individuals to invite opportunities and challenges into their lives.
By assisting people who already can claim a significant degree of personal success and those who want to figure out exactly what to do with their lives, the isa Experience provides a glimpse into the core identity of each person so that they can fully achieve that identity. If participants in the isa Experience feel apprehension or timidity about sharing their insights with the group, they do not need to feel pressured about participating, asking questions, or speaking in front of others. The voluntary nature of the isa Experience adheres to the program’s philosophy as a method that does not seek to change people, but only to expand their intellectual and emotional horizons. On its website, alumni of the isa Experience offer written and video testimonials about the various ways that the program has impacted their lives for the better. The isa Experience offers an entire series of seminars and programs for people interested in attending, including isa Outdoors, Getting Lighter, Getting Wealthy, the Video Experience, the Completion Series, and the Young Persons Experience. To learn more about the isa Experience and to find out when and where future events are happening, visit the website.
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