Frequently Asked Questions

The Imagery Toolbox is a do-it-yourself toolkit, with exercises which you can do entirely on your own.
However, the guidance of an Imagery Toolbox coach is advisable, especially when powerful emotions are involved.

To help you get started, working with a coach can also be very useful. You will find names and addresses in the Register of qualified Imagery toolbox coaches.

Intelligence level or training does not play any part whatsoever in the application of the exercises. Everyone possesses an imaginative capability which is wholly independent of intelligence, education, culture or age.
However, people in whom rationality plays a dominant role may at first experience difficulty with the exercises. Guidance by an Imagery Toolbox coach is then advisable.

The toolbox contains a variety of easily accessible tools for evoking the imagination:

An extensive Course Book with the exercises, which are explained step by step;

• Background information about the working of the imagination and creativity plus many illustrations
• 54 symbol cards on a wide variety of themes
• 8 recorded audio imagery exercises on CDs and on MP3 downloads
• Writing, drawing and modeling materials
• The film ‘Singing for your Life’ and the award winning animation film ‘Touched by an Angel’ by Beatrijs Hulskes on DVD.Read more here

The exercise with the symbol card on page 4 of the Course Book and the exercise ‘Imagery of the good place’ on pages 8 to 13 are the most suitable to start with.

The price of the complete Imagery Toolbox 3.0 is € 47.50.

If you order from outside the Netherlands: send us an email with your order to info@imaginatie.nl.
We will let you know the shipping costs for your country.

From the Netherlands you can order the Imagery Toolbox via the webshop. 

In the Netherlands you will receive the order within a few working days.

In other countries it depends on the local postal services in your country.

Yes, the following items can also be ordered separately:

• the set of Symbol cards for € 32.50
• the Course Book for € 10 (also available as a free pdf download)
• the 2 CD’s ‘Strength of Mind Plus 3.0’ with 8 audio exercises for € 10 (these exercises are also free listen to and download here)
• the DVD ‘Singing for your Life’ & ‘Touched by an Angel’ for € 10.

Introductory workshops on working with the toolbox are organized throughout the Netherlands  in walk-in centers and variety of institutions, such as psychosocial centres and hospitals. See the programme for dates and places.

During an introductory workshop examples are shown of how exercises from the toolbox can be implemented, the background and effects are explained and most importantly, the participants are set to work to experience some of the exercises for themselves.

Organizations can put in a request for an introductory workshop, which is often offered free of charge in the Netherlands. Workshops or training with the Imagery Toolbox in other countries can be applied for: info@imaginatie.nl.

For professionals there is the training Coaching with the Imagery Toolbox.

Imagery techniques have been used in healing rituals since time immemorial and within all cultures. Since the early 60’s the interest in imagery techniques within modern psychotherapy has seen a rapid growth. Hundreds of scientific studies have now been published which describe the impact of imagery techniques upon general mental condition as well as upon recovery from physical or mental trauma. The many research projects to study the placebo effect are part of this interest. Sheikh* is one of the authors who summarized the scientific findings.

* Sheikh, A.A. (ed.) (2003) Healing Images- The Role of Imagination in Health.  New York: Baywood.
With the discovery of the phenomenon mirror neurons, about which the first published findings  appeared in 1996, an increasing stream of psycho-neurological studies has appeared which also show the central role of the imagination in the enhancement of well-being, in  recovery from trauma or illness and in the development of new behaviour. Read more in Chapter 11 of the Course Book.

Click here for an overview of articles and books on imagery, the power of the imagination,  therapeutic applications and scientific background.

Yes, there is a full English edition: Imagery Toolbox 3.0. Click here to order.

Yes you can. Request the shipping costs for the country concerned: info@imaginatie.nl