Integrative Imagery

The Integrative Imagery Approach

We created this approach to provide therapists with a better understanding of how to bring imagery into sessions with clients for resourcing & regulating; healing & processing; unlocking creativity & insight; and spiritual connection.

Imagery for us has deepened our belief in trusting the wisdom within each person. We find that an imagery process not only enlivens the session, it also helps us be better therapists as we meet the client where they are at and let the process take them where they need to go.

The World of Imagery

Imagery is an inherent and fundamental aspect of the human experience. Historically, imagery has had a central place in communication, art, storytelling, and rituals and these forms of expression have happened across time and cultures. And because of ever evolving science, we now have a better understanding of how imagery is neurologically foundational to human perception and cognition.

One key to understanding imagery is to know that it is more than a visual representation. There are many ways we experience imagery, in addition to seeing it We feel it emotionally, we sense it intuitively, and we experience it in the body. While imagery can happen in many ways, four common types of imagery are: visual, somatic, intuitive, and archetypal.

When we as therapists invite the client to bring an inner focus to imagery, there can be a shift from their ordinary waking state to non-ordinary state where they begin to access more of what is available in the unconscious.

In The Integrative Imagery Approach there are three steps:

1. Open to the Magic Moment

2. Engage the Inner World

3. Integration

This approach speaks to all the different ways we might facilitate an imagery process, including working with structured or creative scripts as well as engaging the client in an interactive dialogue experience.

What You Will Learn In Our Trainings

Getting Started with Integrative Imagery

• Orientation to Integrative Imagery Approach

• Learning about the World of Imagery

• Structured Scripts for therapeutic practice

• Facilitation Skills for guided imagery

Creative Integrative Imagery

• Integrative Imagery Approach creative applications

• How to personalize imagery scripts creatively

• Expressive arts and experiential modalities for imagery

• Improvisational Guiding skills

Interactive Dialogue Integrative Imagery

• Depth Psychotherapy with Integrative Imagery

• Somatic focus with interactive dialogue

• Guided interventions for dialogue process

• Archetypal and Transpersonal Imagery

Music Centered Integrative Imagery

• Bringing Music into Integrative Imagery

• Structured & Creative scripting with music

• Understanding Music as your Co-Therapist

• The Art of Guiding a Music Centered Imagery Process