"Insight Pride is one of the most powerful gifts I ever gave myself and I would recommend the seminar to anyone who wants more out of their life, hands down."
...Nicholas Snow
The series of seminars begin with Insight I, a three-day session filled with a series of lectures, group discussions, one-on-one exercises, games, guided imagery and participant sharing. Each seminar focuses on the heart, “the center of your authentic self,” Small says. Insight Pride is a variant of this core seminar, consisting of participants form within the LGBT community.
While some can be hesitant to discuss deeply personal memories, thoughts and feelings, Insight Pride, which Small created in 2004 with his partner of 25 years, provides a “safe, supportive space” that allows participants to “go deeper into exploring their core issues, without any fear of judgment or rejection that frequently occurs outside in the world,” he says. “A sense of community is created and many participants develop close friendships and intimate relationships.”
Small and his partner were both Insight graduates and created the LGBT-themed Pride seminars after returning from getting married in San Francisco, where they realized that “much of the success of our relationships stemmed from the fact that we both attended an Insight Seminar shortly after we met,” says Small. “The tools we learned from Insight and used on a daily basis enabled us to communicate with greater intimacy and love.”
Through the Friday-Sunday seminar, Small said that graduates regularly refer to the “loving, educational experience” as “life-changing” and learn how to produce “extraordinary, tangible results while enhancing the quality of their lives on all ‘levels.’
“Physically, improving one’s ability to communicate and express in a genuine and essential way and creating expanded levels of abundance, health and prosperity,” he adds. “Emotionally, gaining a greater sense of self-confidence and self-esteem with enhanced intimacy and quality of relationships. Mentally, achieving quicker release of judgments and self-judgments and having a more accepting attitude toward oneself and others; and spiritually, creating a greater sense of inner-peace and a deeper connection to the purpose and meaning of life.”
In summary, Small said it’s “having more of what you desire: things like relationships, abundance and happiness.”
Small, who regularly volunteers his time to assist the seminars as well as organize upcoming seminars – believes “being of service is its own reward.”
“Being able to share the tools of what I learned in Insight with members of our community is one of the greatest gifts I can offer,” he adds. “It allows me to see and share the joy of personal transformation that people undergo in three short days. It’s a wonderful way for me to give back to my community that has a powerful effect of creating more joy and happiness for all of us.”
Among the life lessons gained through his experience with Insight and Insight Pride, Small has learned that “loving is the essence of all human beings and as we attune to our authentic heart, we can transform ourselves, our relationships and our lives,” he says. “Forgiveness of judgments of myself and others are the keys to personal liberation.
“I learned that choice is one of the most powerful tools we have. In each moment, we all have the power of choice. Do we choose loving or fear, accepting or judging or compassion or hate? We each have the unique opportunity and capacity to make a positive and lasting contribution to ourselves, our partners and our community.”
For more information about the seminar commencing the last Friday of April, 2010, or future Insight Pride Seminars, call (310) 315-9733 x302 or visit www.InsightPride.com
Article reprinted with permission from Frontiers IN LA
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