Dear Chief Members,
Thank you for your participation in our vision exploration workshop with Chief! If you haven’t already, please send us your feedback. Also, feel free to email (info@letsartaboutit.com) or txt (248-397-4649) a picture of your artwork from the workshop for a complimentary interpretation with your workshop facilitator/Art Therapist Shazia.
Below on this page you will find additional art therapy informed exercises and journaling prompts to help further explore your vision. If you would like to work with us more in depth personally, or bring one of our workshops to your business, please check out our Corporate Services page!
The power of vision
The images we create, whether in our mind or on paper, have the power to affect our feelings, thoughts, and the actions that result in the life we live. From athletes who achieve impossible feats to anyone needing clarity when feeling stuck, vision boards are a popular form of art that can help you visualize your wants and goals to make them a reality. Moreover, creating them can uplift your mood since they focus on the things that give us light and energy.
The following Art Therapy inspired exercises can serve as a starting point or alternative to a traditional magazine collage vision board. Throughout the process of envisioning, we encourage you to focus on how you want to FEEL and the experiences you want to have.
Supplies
We recommend using markers for these exercises for a balanced emotional and cognitive engagement, but feel free to use anything you have available that ignites a spark in you. All that’s required is one paper for each exercise and a pen/pencil.
Post-Drawing Journaling
After the exercises, we recommend that you:
Write down why the parts included are important to you.
Have a deeper dialogue with each of the images in your art. Allow them to speak without judgment to learn what they truly represent and mean for you. Remember that a picture can say a thousand words. Your art reveals memories and desires that are often hidden or forgotten over time. Let your art guide you to gaining insight for living your best life.
Write about how you would feel when these things become a reality for you in your life. What would have changed?
Road of life
Imagine your life is like a journey along a road. Draw a picture on your paper to represent what this road would look like. Think about the the important events that have happened so far, where you are now, and where you hope to be heading.
Three WisheS
Take your paper and fold it into three parts (like a brochure). Now, imagine you are granted three wishes- no rules, just anything you could ever dream of. Dedicate each of the three panels on your paper to drawing these three wishes.
Tombstone or Coffin
Imagine you are at your funeral memorial service. How are you being remembered? Draw the outline of a tombstone or coffin, and fill it with images representing how you would like to have lived your life.
Emerging Sun
Draw a circle in the middle of your paper to represent a sun. Close your eyes and imagine darkness, followed by an image of a sun emerging and lighting every corner of that darkness. Imagine that sun being a part of you. What part of you does it represent? Draw a representation of that part of you in the circle, and then for the rays write down different things that part of you can do to help create your best life.