conserving such space... (Gass, trans., 1999, p. 140) - Rainer Marie Rilke C. Cultivating Social, Psychological, and Emotional Awareness Through Active Imagination The Wise One I like to introduce students to a variety of guided visualizations or fantasy journeys to uncover memories, explore symbolism, evoke insights, and promote creativity. These are sometimes based on my own experiences such as scuba diving or hiking, and sometimes on scripts created by others, such as the following example, which comes from a fascinating book by Marlene Halpin (1982), a Dominican Sister with a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America. She introduces each exercise with a brief set of instructions to help the listeners settle into a calm and settled frame of mind and follows it with detailed descriptions of the psychological insights of clients using the visualization in her therapeutic practice. In the following example, ellipses and bolded questions indicate points at which the teacher should pause in reading to allow participants a few moments to explore the visualization. Picture yourself out in the country on a lovely summer day. You are alone and feeling quite well. A well-defined path is just to your right. It disappears among the trees. You decide to take a walk following the path… It’s pleasant in the There are the usual sounds of birds and insects. A rabbit runs across your path. Sunlight makes pretty shadows among the leaves. You continue to walk along the winding pathway...
conserving such space... - Rainer Marie Rilke (Gass, trans., 1999, p. 140) C. Cultivating Social, Psychological, and Emotional Awareness Through Active Imagination The Wise One I like to introduce students to a variety of guided visualizations or fantasy journeys to uncover memories, explore symbolism, evoke insights, and promote creativity. These are sometimes based on my own experiences such as scuba diving or hiking, and sometimes on scripts created by others, such as the following example, which comes from a fascinating book by Marlene Halpin (1982), a Dominican Sister with a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America. She introduces each exercise with a brief set of instructions to help the listeners settle into a calm and settled frame of mind and follows it with detailed descriptions of the psychological insights of clients using the visualization in her therapeutic practice. In the following example, ellipses and bolded questions indicate points at which the teacher should pause in reading to allow participants a few moments to explore the visualization. Picture yourself out in the country on a lovely summer day. You are alone and feeling quite well. A well-defined path is just to your right. It disappears among the trees. You decide to take a walk following the path… It’s pleasant in the There are the usual sounds of birds and insects. A rabbit runs across your path. Sunlight makes pretty shadows among the leaves. You continue to walk along the winding pathway...
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