The
Future of IGIsm
Feedback from the thousands of
health professionals that have taken IGIsm
Certification training indicate that it is a rapid route to
insight, creativity, conflict resolution, growth, and
change.
One constant piece of feedback we get from our graduates is
that using imagery interactively with IGIsm has
vastly improved their listening, communicating, guiding,
and therapeutic skills, whether they are mental health
professionals, medical or nursing practitioners, coaches,
health care educators, or lay practitioners.
We believe that learning how to competently guide the
imagery process interactively should be a fundamental part
of every health professional’s education and training, and
we have worked toward that goal by co-sponsoring many of
our professional training programs with well-established
schools of medicine, nursing and psychology.
The Academy is also participating in research studies
exploring the uses of imagery in pain control, surgical
preparation and recovery, addictions, and cancer
chemotherapy, and it has established a non-profit
Imagination Foundation to support further research in these
and other areas.
We believe that humans have always used their imagination
to solve problems that threatened their survival. Our times
demand that we now learn to use this powerful information
processing and problem solving approach even more
effectively to help heal ourselves, our families, our
communities, and our planet.
A sustainable future depends in part on our ability to
imagine what that would be like, in both personal and
global terms, and we are committed to supporting the
healing potential of this much underutilized resource --
the human imagination.