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Imaginal Processes

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Conjure dreams, fantasies, myth, legends, fairy tales, stories, rituals, and poetry to enter a new quality of mind around everyday or otherwise mundane experience.

Imaginal Processes
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This technique is part of the Shifting phase of SERA, which requires facilitating an experience or psychological stimulus that triggers, jolts, or firmly guides a conscious shift in one’s orientation to present-moment experience. The word sera itself translates in Spanish to mean “it will be,” which resembles a conscious orientation to whatever may show up in our awareness. This orientation, which is known as beginner’s mind, is necessary because human attention has a tendency toward automatic preoccupation with active thinking (Kabat-Zinn, 2003).

The purpose of using this technique is to help triggering or guide a conscious Shift in one’s orientation to present-moment experience, from conceptualization to intuition.

Apperly, I. A. (2011). Mindreaders: The cognitive basis of “theory of mind.” Psychology Press

Dirkx, J. M. (2000a, October 26-28). After the burning bush: Transformative learning as imaginative engagement with everyday experience. The Third International Transformative Learning Conference. New York.

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