Nurture Your Dream

If Simon Squibb were to walk up to you in the street and ask "What's your dream?" – what would you say?

Would you know how to tell him about your dream, in one clear sentence?

For any one person who can, there are dozens who would struggle. If this is you, you are not alone.

Knowing what you want is supposed to be easy.

Everybody knows what they want, right?

I didn't.
I didn't for the longest time.
And worse, I didn't know how to find out.

So I began to collect ways.

I got better at it.

(If you want a book recommendation, check out The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz.)

Then, when I began working with psychology, I discovered that I was not alone.

These days, every day I invite folks to tell me about what they want.

Nine times out of ten, when they begin to describe it... they find they don't know it as well as they thought.

Before your dream can speak

Before your dream has clothed itself in words and details, it may live as a gossamer shimmer at the back of your mind.

If you're at this stage, when you try to describe it... words won't come. Or they'll get too confused to make sense.

That doesn't mean your dream is broken or gone away.

It means: your dream needs nurturing – like a young fledgling chick before it can learn to fly.

To nurture a dream

What your hazy musings need to grow up into a fully-fledged dream is the chance to mull and wonder.

People can be too-quick to dismiss something when it can't (yet) speak for itself.

It's also too easy to dismiss your own dream-to-be.

It can seem indulgent to bask in its glow, while it can't give a full account of itself.

And yet...

And yet its heartbeat is alive.

It needs you to give it somewhere safe to grow.

A nest for your dream

How do you nurture a dream when it's too young to play with words?

You return to what you knew how to do before you learnt to speak: to see, to hear, to move.

I've come to rely on NeuroGraphica to help me give these early, wordless intimations somewhere to gather and coalesce.

And, gradually, something that was only a shimmer can begin to take shape.

"I was curious: How could drawing lines help me think?

"The surprise was: you can draw about something — almost as if you're writing about it, but without words getting in the way."

~ Tsveta Dimova (film producer and director)

What is NeuroGraphica?

NeuroGraphica® is a tool for non-verbal thinking.

It uses simple lines and shapes to help you think where words can't yet reach.

No artistic ability required.
No drawing experience needed.

Just paper.
A marker.
A dollop of curiosity.

Thinking on the page – without words getting in the way.

Give your dream room to emerge

Over three 2-hour sessions, you'll use NeuroGraphica to give your dream space to emerge, take shape and gather momentum.

A tool you get to keep

NeuroGraphica isn't something you use once and put away.

Once you've learnt the basic process, you can return to it whenever there's something you want to explore — especially when the words aren't quite there yet.

You can draw about a question, a decision, or a dream that is still only beginning to reveal itself.

The drawings you make during these sessions are yours to keep, too.

And perhaps, next time something begins as a little gossamer shimmer at the back of your mind, you'll know what to do.

Make it a nest.
Give it some room.
See what wants to emerge.

"Months later, I still reach for this when I need it."