Date/Time
Date(s) - Sun 19 Jul 2026
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
RE-WILDING IMAGINATION: How to set imagination free
with author, Allan Frater
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WILD IMAGINING is a sensual sensitivity to the activity of images – not just as ‘picture inside the mind’ but also within normal everyday life, work and relationships.
This FREE HOUR-LONG presentation shares the understanding, qualities of perception and skills needed to let imagination run wild.
It will be of interest for anyone wanting to cultivate a richer, STORY-FILLED and enchanted existence – whether in reading novels and watching movies, walking through a forest, or working creatively in some way.
A ‘TAME IMAGINATION’ is the conventional understanding, some of the limitations of which are:
- A personal ‘inner’ imagination separated from the activity of images in the ‘real’ world.
- A rational emphasis upon ‘what images mean’ over in-the-moment imaginative experience.
- A narrow focus upon visual images that misses out on the other senses.
- A mechanistic control of image ‘objects’ and ‘parts’ rather than a participatory rapport with imaginal others.
- Image-based techniques to produce predictable outcomes instead of working with the unruly wildness of emergent change.
A tame imagination is at best a partial understanding. One which leads to impoverished imaginative experience – like an animal trapped in a cage.
To enhance the HEALING AND TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL of imaginative life what is needed is an understanding that actually reflects the experiential ground it purports to address.
WILD IMAGINATION is a theory and practice aligned with the richness of imaginative experience, some of the advantages of which are:
- a practical basis to more fully notice, validate and participate within the process of how we imagine.
- an emphasis on the quality of imaginal perception itself rather than thinking-about images.
- a relational imagination that brings self and world together not further apart.
- an understanding of imaginal change that embraces the human irregularity of dreams rather than a fantasy of machine-based control.
ALLAN FRATER is a psychotherapist, international trainer and author. Both of his books – ‘Waking Dreams’ (2021) and ‘The Act of Imagination’ (2026) – chart a long-term interest in image-based approaches to healing, creativity and transformation. This presentation will give an over-view of his work in a friendly and relaxed fashion, incorporating a slideshow, opportunities to ask questions and discuss, and a full reading list. Find out more: https://wildimagination.uk/
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