Vision Board Workshop 2025

Vision boards are powerful tools for manifesting dreams because they leverage several psychological and neurological principles that align thoughts, emotions, and actions toward achieving goals. Here's why they work:

Vision boards force people to identify and visualize what they truly want, creating a clear and specific focus. This clarity activates the brain's Reticular Activating System (RAS), a network that filters information, making individuals more aware of opportunities that align with their goals.

• By using images and words that resonate emotionally, vision boards communicate desires to the subconscious mind. The subconscious then works in the background to align thoughts, beliefs, and actions with these desires.

• The process of creating and viewing a vision board evokes positive emotions, such as excitement, hope, and motivation. Neuroscience shows that emotions enhance memory and decision-making, helping to reinforce the commitment to achieving goals.

• Visualization is a powerful mental exercise. When you repeatedly see your goals on a vision board, your brain starts to treat those images as reality. This phenomenon, supported by neuroplasticity, strengthens the neural pathways associated with the desired outcomes, making success feel more attainable.

• Vision boards serve as a constant visual reminder of your aspirations. This can inspire consistent action and decision-making that align with those goals. Seeing the board regularly helps keep priorities top of mind.

• While not scientifically proven, many people believe in the law of attraction—the idea that focusing on positive outcomes attracts them into one’s life. Vision boards can encourage this belief, fostering optimism and perseverance.

• The artistic and creative process of making a vision board can tap into intuition and innovation. This process often helps people think outside the box and identify new pathways to their goals.

• Having a tangible representation of dreams makes them feel more real and actionable. A vision board can serve as a self-accountability tool, reminding individuals to stay consistent and motivated.

By combining focus, emotion, visualization, and action, vision boards empower people to move toward their dreams with intention and purpose.

Meet your host:

Amanda Shaw is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida (MH 20223) who is also credentialed in art therapy (ATR), certified by the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. She opened Create Flow Heal Art Therapy & Counseling LLC in February 2022, where she primarily sees clients in the office, with some availability online. In addition to providing art psychotherapy in the community, she teaches Intro to Art Therapy at the University of Tampa. Visit her website at Createflowheal.com to learn more!

Host or Publisher Art Therapist Amanda Shaw MA, ATR-P, RMHCI