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Project
Whole Vision: Connecting Personal Wisdom with Authentic Action
Engagement
Weekly Class & Full Day Workshop
From inner vision to authentic action.
The Challenge
Some of the most useful practices for understanding yourself are locked inside rooms most people never walk into.
Insight emerges when imagination and analysis work together. Alone, each one skews: analysis toward disconnection from the self, imagination toward disconnection from reality. Held together, they complete each other. The traditions that train this combination have stayed out of reach, held inside yoga lineages and therapeutic settings, available only to those who commit to a discipline or find a practitioner who happens to work that way. We set out to build a third door. The method draws on three lineages. Katonah Yoga® supplies the nine-square grid on which the meditations are built, mapping interiority as distinct territories of the self. Jungian depth psychology offers that the unconscious speaks in images and symbols. Kabbalistic image work involves treating those images as living material rather than puzzles to decode. Together they tell us where to look and how to engage with what we find. Development ran several months. Jason Bacasa’s nine meditations formed an interwoven system, and the work was making it workshopable, compressing it into the time an offering actually gets, whether a one-hour weekly practice or a three-hour weekend workshop, without cutting the conditions for meaning. We tested each meditation against its own claim: whether one oriented toward the heart genuinely brings a person into relationship with their heart’s longing, or merely names it. We rebuilt the reflection prompts that follow since insight is lost when the return is unstructured, and we prototyped until the explanation held for people encountering the work cold.
“The image work has helped me push into new territory in my life and work that was not immediately accessible to me through language. The images have pointed me towards ideas and questions that had previously been floating just out of my grasp.”
Moments from the Whole Vision practice.
The practice moves through five steps:
- 01Guided imagination. About five minutes, eyes closed and led by voice, letting images and feelings surface without being managed or explained.
- 02Reflection and capture. Moving from image and feeling into language, the form our analytical mind can work with, and into a record that can be returned to.
- 03Partner dialogue. Talking through what surfaced with another participant, where a private image begins to carry real weight.
- 04Synthesis. Drawing the threads together alone, against an actual situation in your life.
- 05Action. Translating the insight into next steps, in ways of being and ways of doing.
Guided imagination
Our Impact
Participants consistently surface material they did not know was there, and return to look for more.
The most consistent report is surprise. Even among those who have repeatedly run the practice, what arrives is emergent rather than remembered. What surfaces can take many forms: something long wanted and never articulated, which the practice finally puts into words; something unrecognized, which a participant leaves holding as an invitation to keep inquiring; something challenging, which arrives as a call to take responsibility for a part of their life they have been managing around. The method works because self-inquiry left to itself runs in grooves. We ask ourselves a familiar set of questions and receive familiar answers. Whole Vision provides a comprehensive framework that asks what we might not: who are you becoming, how are you moving through the world, what legacy are you offering. One participant described the result directly. “We often hide from ourselves. This workshop unearths what is whispering in you, but has not yet been put to words.” Retention is the clearest evidence. Offered as an ongoing weekly practice, Whole Vision draws participants back week after week, building a fuller map of their interior over time and applying it to challenges they are actively navigating. Another reported the image work opening territory language had not reached, surfacing questions that had been floating just out of grasp. One caveat we now state plainly, corroborated by the feedback survey: this material rarely resolves on the spot. Meaning arrives later. The practice is built to be returned to, not completed.
Why We Loved This Project
We love creating and holding spaces where it’s both safe and appropriately challenging to self-investigate.
Since its creation, we have run more than twenty Whole Vision sessions, with groups ranging from two to twenty people. Participants arrive eager, curious, and motivated to look inward, and watching people give that kind of time to themselves and to each other is both inspiring and comforting. The work runs in two directions at once: going into yourself to understand who you are becoming, and holding space while someone else does the same. We come to meaning through participation, with ourselves and with each other, and this is a clear example of what that looks like in practice. Guided imagination is our way in because it opens material analysis that, on its own, would not reach, and the sequence that follows makes what surfaces usable. Imagination and analysis do together what neither does alone.
“We often hide from ourselves. This workshop unearths what is whispering in you, but has not yet been put to words. It unlocks your whole self so that you have access to your full wisdom as you chart new paths in life.”