Vision Board Workshop - January 6

Join us at Frederick MADE for a Vision Board Workshop! 

Saturday January 6th, 11am

What are vision boards?

Some people call them mood boards, action boards, journey boards, but whatever you want to call them, they are a board of any size or shape, with pictures words and phrases from magazines that represent the life you want to live and the goals you want to achieve.

But it’s not just a board with pictures and words, it’s an inspirational, motivational, aspirational tool to push you towards your goals, dreams, aspirations.

Neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart explains: "Looking at images on a vision board primes the brain to grasp opportunities that may otherwise gone unnoticed. That’s because the brain has a process called ‘value-tagging’ which imprints important things onto your subconscious and filters out unnecessary information.”

“The brain assigns a higher ‘value’ to images than written words on a ‘to-do’ list,” says Swart, “And the more you look at those images, the more those images move up in importance.”

And there are ways you can boost this activity, for example, if you look at your board right before you fall asleep every night, the images will be imprint even further. That’s because the brain is very impressionable as it drifts into sleep and so if you focus your attention on something during that period — particularly on something new — those images are more likely to feature in your dreams and thoughts.

This is known as the ‘Tetris effect’ (named after the 1980s video game).