As Bernard Lonergan explains, the fundamental purpose of a method is discovery: the discovery of what is not yet known and what is often enough not expected. In the case of insight method, the aim of the user is to discover the conscious factors operative in a particular social system or circumstance, and thereby to gain an explanatory perspective on present and future possibilities for prosocial change.

The practices and procedures of insight method are derived from the insight model of consciousness and prosocial change.

The insight model is the product of the sustained, collaborative, empirical efforts of analysts and practitioners to identify the conscious factors operative in the relationship between consciousness and change in persons, systems, and relationships. These factors and their relationships are in empirically grounded in three distinct but related strata of consciousness: sensory experiencing, conscious experiencing, and spiritual experiencing.

The implications of the insight model for insight method are bold but straightforward. When the user of insight method critically correlates the key factors identified by insight model with the sensory, conscious, and spiritual data of a particular social system or circumstance, they discover an explanatory perspective on present and future possibilities for prosocial change in that system.

Beginning 2019, insight theorist and practitioners across the world came together in the first of three annual summits to share and explore developments in the insight approach.

In 2024, these conversations lead to the formation of the Insight Collaboration Institute, a not for profit organization dedicated to advancing the development and application of insight method in fostering creativity and healing in situations of social strife and institutional breakdown. ICI educates and trains social change activists and professionals in the foundations of the Insight approach, fosters cutting edge research, and supports collaborative partnerships.

ICI Incorporators

Jamie Price

Vieve Radha Price

Megan Price

Kim Gordon

The Insight Leadership Team is a group of interdisciplinary Insight practitioners who guide the organization in the pursuit of fulfilling it’s mission and vision

  • Jamie Price

    Jamie Price received his PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He was the founding director of the Sargent Shriver Peace institutes and now lives and works in Vermont and New York City. He specializes in the formulation of Insight method, with a current focus on the relationship of spiritual experiencing, transcendence, and social healing. His latest book is The Call: The Spiritual Realism of Sargent Shriver.

  • Dr. Marnie Jull

    Dr. Marnie Jull (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Conflict Analysis and Management program at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Jull is an academic and practitioner who authored An Anatomy of Everyday Argument: Insight, Conflict and Change, published by McGill Queens University Press. Marnie’s expertise in the theory and practice of Insight method supports her to facilitate learning and transformative change with individuals and groups. 

  • Vieve Radha Price

    Vieve Radha Price is the founder and co-director of TÉA Artistry. Vieve is a leading developer of Insight Artistry, which uses the Insight approach to create performance art for social change. With TÉA, Vieve has co-created and produced eight original multi-disciplinary theatrical performance pieces that reflexively immerse audiences in social and cultural issues. She has a master’s degrees in public policy and conflict analysis and resolution. Vieve is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer.

  • Megan Price

    Megan Price has a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and a Master of Philosophy in Reconciliation Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Megan is integral to the development of Insight method, particularly as applied to both systemic social conflict and conflict that arises in the moment. Megan founded and directs the Center for Applied Insight Conflict Resolution in Washington, DC, developing and delivering customized curiosity-based conflict communication skills training grounded in the Insight approach to professionals who confront conflict regularly– from law enforcement and corrections to industry regulators, utility technicians, human resources, lawyers, school staff and violence prevention workers. She continues to pursue research at the intersection of curiosity, conflict and decision making from the interpersonal to the systemic.

  • Kim Gordon

    Kim Gordon (she/her) is an experienced mediator, collaborative lawyer, and litigator based in Portland, Oregon. She was one of Oregon’s first family law mediators and one of its first collaborative lawyers having introduced collaborative law to Oregon over 20 years ago. Most notably, Kim is credited with opening the first multi-disciplinary collaborative law and mediation firm in the country and the first to incorporate the Insight method into her practice. She is an international conflict resolution speaker and educator, and she held the prestigious position of being a faculty member for the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals -- training collaborative practitioners and mediators worldwide.