Feedback Forms
The ASI encourages feedback as a tool for personal and professional growth for all spiritual leaders. Offering students a way to provide feedback is an ASI membership requirement.
ASI offers three feedback forms below that members can download for use on their websites, after events, or in other contexts.
When we invite student feedback, we address the traditional power imbalance between teacher and student.
Reading feedback can be uncomfortable. We may encounter hurtful comments, misinterpretations, or personal attacks. We're called to approach each opinion maturely, considering what it offers in professional or personal growth.
All feedback, positive or negative, can be constructive. Our students often see our blind spots—what we cannot yet see in ourselves. Asking for feedback requires us to listen, learn, and grow while dropping our defenses and embracing vulnerability.
Additional Resources on Receiving Feedback:
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Tips for Receiving Feedback
(18 minute Insight Timer audio talk by ASI)
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Video on Tenet 22 of the ASI Honor Code of Ethics
(7 minute video)
Tenet 22: Encouraging feedback about our own methods and behavior—and taking that feedback seriously. This includes complaints submitted to the ASI.
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ASI's Peer Support Program is available if you don't already have a peer to help you process feedback constructively. ASI recommends working with a colleague as you navigate this process. This peer-to-peer approach increases learning and growth while providing objective support.
We offer three distinct sample feedback forms for you to choose from:
ONLINE EVENTS
Feedback form for online work that you offer.
Copy to your google drive so that your students can fill it out online, or download a pdf copy to send by email.
IN-PERSON EVENTS
In-person (non-residential) courses/seminars/retreats form
Print the form out, distribute and collect it after your event.
We have noticed that feedback is more authentic if students have their forms from the start. At the end of the event we tend to get a snapshot of how the student is feeling at that time and there is less objectivity in the answers received.
