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'''Insight Seminars''' is an international [[non-profit organization]] headquartered in [[Santa Monica, California]]. The first seminar was led in 1978 by founders [[John-Roger Hinkins|John-Roger]] and [[Russell Bishop (psychologist)|Russell Bishop]] under the name '''Insight Training Seminars'''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=Brian C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AfRLDwAAQBAJ |title=John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age |date=2018-08-06 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-4531-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Robbins |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9O4sAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Insight+training+Seminars%22+%22john-rogers%22 |title=Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in Yellowstone and the American West |date=1993 |publisher=Morrow |isbn=978-0-688-11178-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Tumminia |first1=Diana G. |title=Beginnings |date=2013 |work=A Study of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness: Religious Innovation and Cultural Change |pages=47–64 |editor-last=Tumminia |editor-first=Diana G. |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374196_3 |access-date=2025-07-07 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137374196_3 |isbn=978-1-137-37419-6 |last2=Lewis |first2=James R. |doi-broken-date=13 August 2025 |editor2-last=Lewis |editor2-first=James R.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Controversial New Religions |title-link=Controversial New Religions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-931531-4 |editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=James R. |editor-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |edition=2nd |location=New York |language=en |editor-last2=Petersen |editor-first2=Jesper Aa.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tumminia |first=Diana G. |title=Controversial New Religions |title-link=Controversial New Religions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-515682-9 |editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=James R. |editor-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |edition=1st |location=New York |language=en |chapter=Heart and Soul: A Qualitative Look at the Ethos of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness |editor-last2=Petersen |editor-first2=Jesper Aagaard}}</ref> Insight has held seminars in 34 countries for adults, teens, and children, in addition to Business Insight corporate trainings. Seminars are primarily presented in English and Spanish, and have also been translated into Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, and Greek.

== Insight Seminar Series ==
The Insight Seminar series includes five core seminars, taken in sequence, and a variety of graduate and public events. In each seminar, [[facilitator]]s lead groups of 40-200+ participants through group exercises, partner discussions, lectures, and guided visualization processes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wisdomoftheheart.org/|title=Wisdom of the Heart|website=Wisdom of the Heart|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-03}}</ref>

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