IMAGINAL CITIES
About Imaginal Cities
Imaginal Cities are shared worlds of image, meaning and possibility, co-created around the qualities we most need.
Each city is entered through guided imagery and shaped by what participants see, sense and bring into the shared experience.
Wisdom
Hope
Compassion
Kindness
Courage
Each City is entered through guided imagery and shaped by what participants see, sense and bring in the moment.
THIS IS IMPORTANT
Why Cities?
A quality becomes more powerful when it becomes a place.
A city allows us to explore a quality as something alive.
It can have gates, gardens, shelters, meeting places, boundaries, dangers and ways of living.
Hope is no longer only an idea.
It becomes somewhere we can enter, encounter and begin to understand differently.
A CITY LET’S US EXPLORE
Where a quality lives
What protects it
What it
What it asks of us
What we carry back
No two Cities are ever the same.
The host opens the journey, but the city is not predetermined.
It takes shape through what participants notice, imagine and bring into the shared experience.
One gathering may reveal gardens, thresholds and places of refuge. Another may reveal entirely different forms, relationships and ways of living.
The city emerges from the people who enter it.
NOW A CITY IS CREATED
Imaginal Cities are not places we escape to.
CLOSING INVITATION
They are places we return from carrying something new.
Rooted in the imaginal philosophy of Henry Corbin — worlds between what exists and what is waiting to become possible. For the thoughtful, the creative, the hopeful.