Using the workbook the Intensive Journal workshop leads you through a set of structured exercises that help you draw the many parts of your life together into an integrated whole. The process includes your life today, events in your history, people who matter to you, your body, your work, the society around you, your dreams and images, your emotions and beliefs. The advanced workshops go more into depth with your inner life, your dreams, and with correlation among the many parts of your life. Not at all. This method does not depend on keeping a daily diary.
Many people journal intermittently, some only during a workshop.
You may want to write more frequently at some times in your life, but that is up to you. Dr. Progoff said we all have enough other things to feel guilty about, without feeling guilty about not journaling. The workshop supplies the structure and you supply the content, so you can come as many times as you like. Simply being in a quiet room where other people are concentrating and writing makes it easier for many of us to focus and write. It is not a process where anyone picks apart what has gone before, what you are experiencing today, or what may be possible in the future.