Sabrina N’Diaye, PhD
Hello
When I was in my 40s, I began writing letters to my deceased grandmother. Whatever was my confusion or fear of the day poured through the ink like visible tears on the paper. I imagined Big Mama comforting me, and listened to the advice she gave me as if she were still alive.
One day, the pen began to write words that were coming from beyond my mind.
This was bigger than me. These were Big Mama’s words, coming through me and onto the page.
I’d always had a wildly vivid imagination, but my experience communing with Big Mama inspired me further. In grad school, I discovered the science that proved what I already knew: imagination is real.
I wrote my Doctoral dissertation on the power of guided imagery, and learned the practice of traveling from my Sufi teacher who taught me more exercises of the imagination.
Since then, I’ve facilitated hundreds of sessions that help people tap into the power of their own imagination.
Now, I’ve created a course to share my skills with you:
Unlocking the Healing Power of Imagery and Writing to Help Clients Heal, is a compassionate, playful, and scientifically-grounded approach that reimagines the therapeutic process.
This course is not a mere collection of techniques; it’s a journey into the heart of healing. You will learn to integrate mind, body, and spirit — yours and your clients’ —into therapy, leverage writing as a powerful tool for transformation, and master the art of guided imagery to open up a world of possibilities for your clients.
Because the possibilities of imagination are literally endless.
Learn to personify fears, relationships, diseases, and more so you can hear their wisdom and create a new relationship with them.
Whether you work in mental health, addiction, education, health care, faith, or social justice, you will have tools to use right away to start off or augment your practice.
When you tap into the power of imagination, you can take your clients into the future, the past, inside their own or others’ bodies to a place where they can imagine something different, ask new questions, and answer from the wisdom they already hold. Join this transformative approach to therapy that’s rooted in science and wrapped in joy.
Our Guides
The first module opens with an opportunity for you to remember who you are and why you’re doing this work. You’ll learn exercises to connect with the guides in your life, and to learn how to integrate imagery exercises into your own life. The first module will allow you to go deeper into your own practice so you can more effectively guide your clients. You’ll learn:
- The profound importance of why you are doing this work so your commitment can invigorate your practice
- The Breath: Setting the Intention so you can begin each session with ease and focus
- The concept of Original Medicine to uncover you and your client’s original power. What is imagery and how it works in the body
- A true definition for healing to expand your understanding of what you are working towards with your clients and to develop mutual trust
Guided Imagery and Healing
Learn in a short time what it took Sabrina years to uncover: the research behind imagery and expressive writing, and how these two modalities actually impact our immune functioning, our brain, our physiology, and our overall health. You’ll learn:
- What is imagery and how it works in the body
- What the research on guided imagery tells us about brain function and health
- Guided imagery’s impact on physiology and the brain. What is imagery and how it works in the body
- The Wise Guide experience to help you tap into your inner knowledge and resourcefulness
Writing and Healing
Continuing the exploration of research on imagery and writing, we’ll look at how imagery and writing impact our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. You’ll learn how to use imagery and writing to overcome chronic illness, depression, extreme trauma, emotional challenges, and grief. These tools will help your clients achieve a higher state of inner peace, and a better quality of life. You’ll learn:
- The impact of writing on physical and psychological health so you can facilitate better outcomes for your clients
- Why we use stories — and how to elicit them safely and effectively — to create transformative growth for your clients
- How to bridge imagery and writing to create richer experiences in your sessions
- A process to “dialogue” with a symptom to help your clients gain greater insights into what ails them
Application with Clients (and Ourselves)
The final module helps you integrate what you’ve learned in this course, apply the exercises yourself, and use them in the clinical setting with your clients. You’ll learn:
- The role of imagery in psychotherapy so you can apply it most effectively
- How to create ritual around guided imagery to enhance its impact
- Clinical examples of guided imagery and writing so you can see how it will look in your practice
- The Future Self imagery exercise to spark hope — the medicine — for healing and bring you back to yourself
- Tools for the next steps so you can continue your journey
In Unlocking the Healing Power of Imagery and Writing to Help Clients Heal, you will learn:
Meet Your Presenter
Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye
Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye is a therapist, storyteller, peacebuilder, and student of Sufism.
In 2008, she founded the Heart Nest Center for Peace and Healing in Baltimore, Maryland, where she lovingly serves women, couples, small groups, and other healers. Her approach to healing is a blend of wisdom, science, and the sacred Sufi teachings of peace, love, justice, mercy, and freedom.
Dr. Sabrina has worked with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, teaching the art of self-care to healthcare professionals and community leaders. As Center faculty, she responded to community trauma in Las Vegas, Houston, the Pine Ridge Reservation, New York City, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, and the Middle East. She also served as the lead faculty for programs in Indianapolis, Central Asia, East Africa, the US Capitol Police, and the aftermath of the May 14, 2022, massacre in East Buffalo.
She recently completed her first book, Big Mama Speaks: Love Lessons from a Harlem River Swan, based on her maternal grandmother’s ability to transcend multiple traumas and chronic illness.
Dr. Sabrina is a devoted wife, mother, daughter, and life-long learner, who remains humbled by the healing power of compassion, love and forgiveness.
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