Lucia Capacchione

Visioning

Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Visioning, acclaimed art therapist, designer, and pioneer in personal growth through creativity Lucia Capacchione reveals a road map to the creative process that can be applied to health, relationships, career, home, and other areas of life. And all you'll need to accomplish your goals are a pair of scissors and some glue! Using the same principles and steps designers use to bring their dreams into physical reality, Capacchione shows how you can design your very own dream life, home, work, and marriage. Learn how to use the talent you already powwess to: * Originate a concept or idea * Feed the idea * Assemble design elements * Start the production process * Refine and complete the design * Create a dream support team * Celebrate the final product Lavishly illustrated with photos and collages to spark the designer within, this book will show you how to make real the notion that if you dream it, you can do it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 182mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781585420872
• ISBN-10: 1585420875
• Artikelnr.: 22411437

Autorenporträt

Dr. Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., is an art therapist, artist, author, popular workshop leader, and corporate consultant who has worked for Hallmark, Mattel, and the Walt Disney Company. She lives near Big Sur, California.

Inhaltsangabe

VisioningIntroduction: Life as Art, Art as Life
Part 1. The Process
Following the Pathways of the Heart
1. The Designer Within
Thinking with your Heart. What Is Design? Thinking in Pictures. Visual
Imagery: How It Works. Visualization: The Mind's Eye
Dreaming the Impossible Dream. Block Busters. Thoughts Becoming Things.
Visualization: Picture This
We're All Designers. Visualization: Reflecting on Past Success
The Fear of Art. Art-Making, Your Natural Birthright. Visualization:
Dreams That Came True
Visioning: How It Works. Ten Principles of Design. The Ten Steps of
Visioning. Techniques Used in Visioning. Two Brains, Two Hands. Journal:
Warming UpDancing on Paper
Why Visioning Works. Pictures and Words
2. The Field of Dreams
Preparing the Inner and Outer Space. Gather the Tools. Supplies. Setting Up
Your "Creativity Gym." Prepare the Space. Talismans, Totems, and Good Luck
Charms. Peparation: Setting the Stage, Creating a Studio
Prepare Your Inner Space. Focus : Creating the Container. Imagery: Symbol
for Your Creative Self
Unfolding from the Creative Self
Moving from the Creative Self. Movement Meditation: Inner Listening
The Silent Partner. Journal: Meet Your Creative Conscience
3. Get a Dream, Get a Life
First Design Principle: Get an Idea. Visioning Step 1: Make a Wish. The
Courage to Dream. Journal: Permission to Act
Finding a Focus. Crafting a Focus Phrase. Focus Phrases: A Menu of Possible
Themes. Journal: Finding My Focus Phrase. Journal: What's the Problem?
Reinforcing Your Focus Phrase. Focus: Flash Cards
4. Sorting and Sifting
Second Design Principle: Feed Your Idea with Research. Visioning Step 2:
Search for Images and Words. Explore the Treasures in Your Research Bank:
The Art of Gathering. Image-Finding as Meditation. Research: Grab What
Grabs You.
Ad Art as Poetry in the Market Place. Poem-making: Wordplay
Third Design Principle: Connect the Research to Your Own Idea. Visioning
Step 3: Focus on the Vision. The Balance Between Freedom and Structure.
Following Your Heart. Focus: What's Hot and What's Not?
What's in a Word? Magazines as Chinese Fortune Cookies. Poem-making: More
Wordplay
5. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Fourth Design Principle: Assemble the Design Elements. Visioning Step 4:
Compose the Design. Design by Intuition. Lay Out the Elements. Focus and
Contemplation: Your Symbol Here
Random Acts of Beauty: Seeing Relationships, Making Connections. Finding
Your Own Style. Focus: Playing in the Land of Make-Believe
Matching Words and Pictures. Word Jazz: Ransom Notes from the Soul
6. Order Out of Chaos
Fifth Design Principle: Mix and Match in Rough Mock-up Stage. Chaos and
Creativity. Visioning Step 5: Explore and Find Order in Creative Chaos.
Recognizing the Inner Critic. Journal: The Inner Critic
The Mistakes Myth. Journal: Guidance from the Creative Self
7. The Design of Your Life
Sixth Design Principle: Develop the Design. The Pieces Coming Together.
Visioning Step 6: Create the Collage. Collage: Putting the Puzzle Pieces
Together
Turning Words on Their Heads. Zen and the Art of Cut and Paste. Collage:
Word Weaving
God Is in the Details. Mixed Media: Connect the Dots
Other Formats for Visioning
Part 2: Seeing Results
Letting Your Mind See What Your Heart Already Knows
8. Talking Pictures
Seventh Design Principle: Refine and Finalize the Design. Visioning Step 7:
Articulate the Vision. Journal: Image Writing
If Pictures Could Talk. Journal: Writing by Heart
The Story Inside the Collage. Journal: Telling My Story
Eighth Design Principle: Start the Production Process. Visioning Step 8:
Reinforce the Dream. Visual Affirmation and Visualization: What You See Is
What You Get
Dealing with Resistance. Protect Your Dream. Journal: Keeping the Faith
A Wish Your Heart Makes
9. Seeing is Believing
Ninth Design Principle: Get Help. Visioning Step 9: Embrace the Reality.
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. What's Behind the Dream. It's About
Time. Journal: At the Write Time
Taking Care of Business. Journal: Thinking with Both Sides of Your Brain
As Luck Would Have It. Journal: In the Write Place
Reach Out for Help. Journal: My Personal Dream Team
10. Let's Have a Party
Tenth Design Principle: Complete and Celebrate the Final Product. Visioning
Step 10: Celebrate the Dream Come True. Journal: Give Yourself a Hand
Lessons Learned, Qualities Earned. Journal: You've Got What It Takes
Saying Thanks. Journal: Thanks to the Creative Self. Letter Writing: Reach
Out and Thank Someone
Celebrating the Dream. Journal: Throwing a Celebrate-the-Dream Party
Part 3: Visioning In Action
Photo Album of Success Stories; Ideas and Suggestions
11. Visioning in Work and Career
Problems on the Job: Dealing with Difficult People. Case Study: Marissa and
the Manager from Hell
Job Change and Career Transition. Case Study: Hold Fast to Dreams
Affirming What You Want. Collage and Journal Applications. Illness and
Work. You and Your Career. Visioning in a Support Group. Organizing a
Visioning Group. Structuring a Group Session. Group Dynamics. The Power of
Group Support. Collaborative Visioning for Teams, Companies, and
Organizations. Visioning at Work. Visioning and Organizational Development.
Activities for Organizational Visioning. Team Building and Project
Development
12. Visioning and Relationships
Finding Love in All the Right Places. Case Study: Lisa's Story and Collages
Wedding Bells and Honeymoons. Case Study: Aleta's Collages
Baby Makes Three. Case Study: Christine's Story, Collage, and Baby
Announcement
Suggestions and Applications. Creating a New Relationship. Improving an
Ongoing Relationship. Collaborative Visioning for Families. Media for
Family Collages. Case Study: Beverly and Tom Vision Together
A Collage for the Whole Family
13. Visioning for Health and Well-Being
Regaining the Self. Case Study: Gayle's Story of Inner Healing
The Creative Self Diet. Case Study: Susan's Story of Healing, Change, and
Weight Loss
Money, Self-Worth, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Case Study: Mark's Story
Finding Abundance Within. Case Study: Greg's Story of Discovering True
Wealth
Suggestions and Applications. Body Image, Self-Image. Illness and Pain.
Abundance.
14. Visioning to Find Your Place
A Home for the Heart. Case Study: Lucia's Story of Her Dream House
Dreams for Rent. Mara Moves to Santa Fe. Case Study: Relocating to a New
Area
Anna's Ranch. Case Study: Anna Finds Her Dream Ranch
In Closing.
Resource Guide
Books
Audiotapes
Art and Journal Supplies