Rally the family around a common cause and create a family vision together.
You may have made a vision board on your own before. This time around every member of the family will have the opportunity to contribute their perspective to the next chapter of your family history.
This isn’t an arts and crafts exercise. It’s a fun yet potent form of art therapy that invites and respects each individual’s vision of the life you desire to share together.
Promoted mental health, resilience and well-being for all
The 7 benefits of a creating a family vision board together.
Aligns the individual’s needs with the common good
Supports children in making good academic choices
Encourages adults to stay true to their purpose
Fosters harmony and reduces dissension in the ranks
Creates a bond of love, and a sense of belonging
Provides a creative outlet for anxiety and its resolution
Celebrates your shared values and goals.
Extraordinary results, one mother reports:
“Creating the intuitive vision board together was no effort at all: no friction, no dispute. Neither can I say who put what where on the board; it just happened.”
“What was extraordinary to me was that with three of us choosing the images independently – and in silence – a consistent theme in three parts still emerged: the desire for more closeness; to create more family time together; and to travel and explore the big outdoors.”
“In the early weeks after creating our family vision board nothing much seemed to happen. But I reminded myself how six months elapsed before I saw action on my personal vision board. As if on cue, after six months of living with the family board everything changed.”
“In the following year the opportunities for me to write and the family to travel came thick and fast. It took us to the most outlandish, natural places all over the world. In hindsight what started out as a beautiful pictorial vision of places and experiences we aspired to, I can honestly say we’d enjoyed most of them within the next 18 months.”
Greater than the sum of your parts
The aim of this fascinating exercise is not to create a synthesis of ideas, although this may happen naturally.
A family vision board provides a forum for the idiosyncrasies of each member to be expressed and heard by the others. The family unit is thereby strengthened through openness and sharing.
The optimum group size I’ve found is 8 and be cross-generational too. I’ve had a four-year old make a beautiful board because she could handle a pair of scissors on her own while the oldest senior to date was 77 years old.
The finished vision board acts like a homing beacon – a constant reminder of your shared vision. It can be displayed where the family come together to eat or relax.
Next steps
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Mary Nondé has pioneered the intuitive vision board since 201O. She is the author of ‘Awaken Your Intuitive Vision – unlocking possibilities you never knew existed AVAILABLE ON AMAZON or to order from your local book store.
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