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, FRSA, MA, QTS), is a creative facilitator and coach, community artist, writer and advocate. She trained in Art and Design education and therapy and has worked as a teacher and artist-in-residence in schools, alternative provision and further education. She most consistently engages in multi-disciplinary research, setting up creative environments for critical participatory work with marginalised communities. Francesca has published international research on arts-informed methodologies, autism, childhood and children’s rights; is founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, international board member of the Disability Without Abuse Project (Los Angeles), Councillor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Associate Member of CATA (Canadian Art Therapy Association). Francesca is a Visiting Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Research Methods at the Carnegie School of Education (Leeds Beckett University) and Arts Therapies at the University of Roehampton, Francesca is also a translator (Queen’s University Belfast; Routledge).
