Imagination: a gateway to professional skills

How are you at problem solving and decision making? You might be surprised to learn nurturing your imagination can help us develop those skills. In fact, philosopher Amy Kind claims imagination, in itself, is a skill and embodied in it is, for example, problem solving, decision making and planning. Also, mind reading or our attempts to understand each other’s thoughts and feelings.

Like other skills, she writes, imagination can improve with practice and training which, as you already know, is my specialty at Imagination Session® (through facilitated imaginative journeys).

Writer Ursula Le Guin also encouraged lifelong exercises in imagination.

“The imagination is an essential tool of the mind,” she wrote, “a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. We have to learn to use it and how to use it, like any other tool.”

After all, imagination is the essence of ‘us’, it reveals our innermost thoughts and how we see our world. In our Imagination Sessions, participants often say they feel ‘free’, the freedom to be themselves.

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