Designed with love, this workshop is facilitated for you to make time to piece together your hopes and aspirations on a vision board: an effective and impactful way of manifesting what is often maintained in a tentative state in our lives. A vision board translates intentions from abstract evocations to concrete manifestations. Whether these are career goals, hopes for romantic joy, relationships to the self based on kindness and mind and body wellness, plans for a holiday, or ways to connect values with aspirations, making a vision board is a practical process to put to work your purpose, intentions, priorities and values. Manifest the sense of purpose and joy you deserve, creating a vision board to activate steps towards a meaningful and balanced way of being and becoming, guided by images and words, revitalising and centring your goals, turning abstract ideas into a visual plan that works for you.
“I found it a really peaceful couple of hours, with Francesca fostering a lovely sense of safety and community. It was nice to be given the opportunity to give myself space to explore what’s dear to me, and learn something I can also apply in my work with clients”
“Refreshing and nurishing for me”
Please take note of the essential materials needed to make the most of this creative workshop:
- A notepad/loose paper and pen/pencil, for the guided preparatory exercises.
- 1 x large piece of card, cardboard or corkboard (A3 format is a good place to start).
- Magazines, newspapers, photographs, printed quotes…
- Scissors.
- Glue stick, tape or drawing pins (depending on your choice of support).
- Marker pens (optional).
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Utilise Vision Boards as a (goal-setting) tool with clients who thrive through visual communication, are uncertain about what nourishes and sparks their joy, intuition and their sense of purpose.
- Use this visual process as a vessel for affirming and manifesting the purpose of the therapeutic experience, in restorative and affirmative ways, based on personal aspirations and values.
- Make this a personal tool for refreshing your therapeutic direction, intention and worth. Explore priorities and values, visualising your aspirations for the present and the future.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Anyone hoping to engage in reflection, and individual and collective meaning-making thorough a visual and intentional ‘collating’ of values, priorities and aspirations; therapists, coaches and socially-engaged practitioners.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Ideas and practices from this workshop can add value and potential to word-based work. Use a Vision Board as a prompt to set intentions, therapeutic and personal priorities, aid and support paths to self-recognition, self-compassion and readiness to centre joy, personal priorities and success.
Course Content
Presenter

Dr. Francesca Bernardi PhD is an advocate, author, coach, and artist, with expertise in MA supervision, dis/ability and community engagement. Francesca has an extensive background as a teacher and artist-in-residence, working with children and adults in various settings, including schools, alternative provision, further and higher education, corporate settings, museums, and public spaces (Tate Museums and the RSA.org). She’s dedicated to working with parents and caregivers of children and young people with dis/abilities who have experienced school exclusions and other forms of social discrimination.
Francesca engages in multi-disciplinary and arts-informed practices with marginalized communities, and individuals experiencing loss and homelessness. Her approach is non-hierarchical, socially just, and creative, aiming to nourish healing and personal agency while honouring the wholeness of individuals’ personhood, choices, and capabilities.
Francesca has published her work on autism, arts-informed methodologies, childhood, and children’s rights in books and journals (Bloomsbury, Routledge, Taylor and Francis). She is the founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, board member of the Disability Without Abuse Project (2020-), and an Associate Member of CATA/ACAT (the Canadian Art Therapy Association 2021-).