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.This project is the development of a comprehensive approach to prison programming utilizing leading edge experiential technology from a variety of sources. The basis for this project is the premise that nothing short of a transformation of one's core experience of self can bring forth the ability to create a future different from the past. The source material for this work is compiled from or sourced from leading edge figures and programs in human transformation around the world. (Impact Overview and Details)

While there have been major breakthroughs and a developing transformational evolution of many of areas of our social and cultural reality over the last several decades the area of criminal justice and prisons has been all but ignored. Even many of the "enlightened leaders" of the movements and teachings of transformation and human effectiveness have turned away from bringing attention and generating a forum on our criminal justice system and its gross failure to provide an realistic opportunity for human beings to change in the direction of being a law abiding citizen. If we ignore our imprisoned, we are ignoring the aspects of our self that are imprisoned. We are all offenders albeit to different degrees and in different ways. How we experience and manage this reality within ourselves is the projected reality of how we manage our criminal justice system. The evidence indicates that we are in dire need of attention to this area of our life and our collective reality..... our society.

The focus of this work is ontological, i.e. it deals with the nature of being. At it's heart this work is straight forward and simple, however it deals with an area of human experience that is usually unseen or hidden from our view. An area of our experience that is at the source of our thinking, our actions, and the outcomes or results we have in life. This area is "who we are being". The intention of the Impact Project is for each and every participant in the program to experience a transformation in the area of "being". This is at the heart of this work: To provide an experience of transformation (a shift in view and context) that opens up a new realm of possibility for being and action, and provides the potential for an unprecedented quality of life. This tranformation experience empowers people to fulfill on the essential experience of being alive that human beings desire, and provides a context for living that allows people to remain committed to effective action in the face of any and all circumstances in life. While the nature of this area of human experience is absract; it is non-the-less as real as water is wet, and is revelation makes a profound difference in the way people live their life, and the future they create and realize. Obviously such a transformation is of special significance for people imprisoned who have a probable future of recidivism. David Parrish