Basic Certification

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Basic Certification

Basic Training in Interactive Guided Imagery℠ includes three foundational courses—Fundamentals of Interactive Guided Imagery, ATS 1A, and ATS 1B—and teaches the core techniques of Basic Imagery, Inner Advisor, Evocative Imagery, and Grounding. This training gives you the essential skills and structure to guide safe, client-centered imagery sessions and serves as the first major step toward professional certification.

Included:‍

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1 on 1 Live virtual Practicum

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FIGI (Fundamentals of Interactive Guided Imagery) self-guided Course

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FIGI self-guided workbook

$2200

COURSES REQUIRED

3

Program length

1-3 Months

pre-requisites

None

Course overview

The Basic Training Program in Interactive Guided Imagery℠ is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy, skills, and structure of imagery facilitation. This program includes three core courses—Fundamentals of Interactive Guided Imagery, ATS 1A, and ATS 1B—which together create a strong, experiential foundation for anyone looking to integrate guided imagery into their professional practice.

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✦ What You’ll Learn

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Across the Basic Training, you’ll develop competence in the essential Interactive Guided Imagery℠ techniques:

Basic Imagery
Learn how to support clients as they engage with images, symbols, feelings, and metaphors that arise naturally from the subconscious.

Inner Advisor Imagery
Explore one of our signature techniques that guides clients in accessing an inner source of wisdom, clarity, and guidance for personal insight and problem-solving.

Evocative Imagery
Learn the key to transforming emotions using the bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind.

Grounding Techniques
Learn the technique that brings clients from insight to action, allowing them to act and step into their power whether it is in breaking old habits or forming new patterns.

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✦ How You’ll Learn

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You will learn in 3 self-paced courses- FIGI, ATS 1A, and ATS 1B.
‍The culmination of the courses will be with a 3-day virtual live Preceptorship 1. Each day is an 8 hour intensive of guiding, receiving and observing imagery sessions.

Through the courses and Preceptorship, you will learn:

Understand the interactive, client-centered approach that defines our method
Practice guiding imagery in a safe, structured, and ethical way
Gain hands-on experience with peers and receive supportive feedback
Learn how imagery activates mind-body healing, stress reduction, and intuitive insight
Develop confidence in opening, guiding, and closing a basic imagery session
Begin to apply imagery in real-world contexts: therapy, coaching, healthcare, wellness, and performance

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✦ Why It Matters

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The Basic Training offers both skills and transformation. You’ll learn techniques that are powerful, often immediately effective, and deeply supportive for clients dealing with stress, emotional challenges, inner conflict, or insight-seeking.

This program is also the first major step toward full Professional Certification in Interactive Guided Imagery℠. By the end, you’ll feel grounded, confident, and ready for the more advanced ATS series.

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Interactive Guided Imagery℠ explained

Quiet the mind.

Interactive Guided Imagery℠ is based on Jungian psychology and the idea that our reality is largely a manifestation of our mind. This applies to everything from our personal worries to our professional aspirations.

Quieting the mind allows us to open our clients to the inner realms and explore in a way that is rarely experienced.

Listen to the unconscious.

Our unconscious mind is a collection of intuitions, emotions, memories, and beliefs, often expressed more vividly through images than words. Western culture tends to underplay the significance of these images and the feelings they evoke.

As we quiet the mind, the unconscious starts to open up and allow the deeply held intuitions, beliefs, and emotions that it has held onto. Interactive Guided Imagery℠ has the unique ability to uncover insights more rapidly and directly helpful than conventional diagnostics.

Interact with the inner wisdoms.

Using guided imagery, clients can visualize and interact with an image representing a pain, trauma or challenge. These images are deeply resonant archetypes that clients build relationships with and grow to trust, sometimes more deeply than any relationships in the external world.

Interactive Guided Imagery℠ incorporates techniques from hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, psychosynthesis, and Jungian active imagination. It gives us access to our innate resources guiding us to deal with challenges and heal from the inside out.

restored my enjoyment

For me the most important part of my Interactive Guided Imagery℠ training was to really develop my skills as a listener. The AGI training program also helped me to be less judgmental and interpretive with regard to what I hear, whether in an imagery session or in other patient communications. Finally, my work with imagery has restored my enjoyment in practicing medicine because it takes me and my patients into unknown, magical places of healing and awareness.

Matthew Zwerling, MD

Orthopedic Surgeon

a truly invaluable experience

A truly invaluable experience that opened a gate for me to a deepened understanding of innate healing power. I sincerely believe that any physician who practices Integrative Medicine should be well-practiced in the applications of Interactive Guided Imagery℠. . .Its use in pain and symptom management, as well as insight and resource cultivation, has made the path of healing powerful and meaningful. . .What a joy!

Carl Hendel, MD

Integrative Medicine

a gift that keeps giving

The training itself connected me with my own 'inner healer,' a gift that keeps giving as I do Interactive Guided Imagery℠. I have found it to be very helpful in working with hospice and chemically dependent clients.

Marsha Aliamus, RN

Registered Nurse

a transforming experience

My clients now leave my office more relaxed, grounded, empowered . . . Certification Training is a transforming experience.

Ron Rehrer, MFCC

Pastoral Counselor

making a major contribution

Though I have been in practice since 1973, I have seldom seen the depth of understanding, clarity of direction, and motivation toward change through other modalities. Clearly Interactive Guided Imagery℠ is an approach to therapy which is making a major contribution.

Richard D. Berrett, PhD

Professor of Child and Family Science, California State University, Fresno

the most exciting and useful training

The guided imagery training that I received from the Academy was by far the most exciting and useful training that I have received since finishing my PhD. I still get referrals regularly from the Academy's listing of graduates. I enthusiastically support any professional considering adding Interactive Guided Imagery℠ to their armamentarium.

James M. Holcomb, PhD

Clinical Psychologist

enhances the effectiveness of other treatments

Guided Imagery and visualization can enhance the effectiveness of other treatments, including allopathic drugs and surgery. Try them for any illness and all autoimmune disorders.

Andrew Weil, MD

Shape, January 1996

professional & well thought out training

The Academy provides an exceptionally thorough, professional and well thought out training for practicing clinicians. My own Certification Training was extremely valuable to me and I prefer to use AGI graduates whenever possible in our hospital programs.

Leslie Davenport, MS, MFCC

Executive Coordinator, Humanities Program, Marin General Hospital

so useful

I find Interactive Guided Imagery so useful that I plan to require training in it for students in the Integrative Medicine Program I am creating at the University of Arizona Medical Center.

Andrew Weil, MD

Author, Spontaneous Healing

an exquisite training program

The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed and exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program with great integrity and clinical relevance.

Jeanne Achterberg, PhD

Senior Editor, Alternative Therapies in Medicine

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