Guided Imagery for Children
Benefits of Guided Imagery
Teaching the fundamentals of guided imagery to children will build self-esteem, promote creativity, and help to identify their strengths, adding to their repertoire of skills to face new challenges, problems, or pressure at home, school, or in their personal lives. Guided imagery provides children with a natural tool to balance support and connect mind, body and spirit.
Who would benefit from the book
Children with special needs, chronic or acute illnesses, and typically developing children facing everyday challenges will find the activities in this book fun and engaging as they learn new and innovative ways to cope with the extraordinary and everyday stress of life.
Who should use this book
This book offers parents, educators, child life specialist, healthcare professionals, as well as anyone looking for unique and innovative ways to holistically support children’s growth and development, build self-esteem, and promote creativity through movement, play and imagination.
Guided Imagery
Children learn through creating, playing, and imagining themselves as a princess, fire fighter, or major league baseball player. Following Imagination….utilizes this essence of what makes children unique in their approach to life to support them as they grow, learn, and develop. Each activity in the book provides children with the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of guided imagery through interactive games and arts and craft activities that teach skills like progressive muscle relaxation, and deep breathing or help children recognize their own gifts and strengths and how to access and build upon them.
Over 30 pages with more than a dozen different Guided Imagery Exercises





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Following Imagination….Activities for Children that Move, Create and Play with the Fundamentals of Guided Imagery provide the parent and practitioner with a variety of activities with easy to follow directions, discussion tips, uses and benefits and a list of materials that are easily found in the home, recycled, and friendly to the environment. The activities are divided into three chapter headings outlining ways to use the activities in a group setting, individually, or combined with another activity. A list of Family Stress Busters is an added bonus to offer to families looking for fun and quick ways to break the tension of any stressful situation.
Genevieve M. Lowry M. Ed, CCLS/Reiki Master has been helping children and families for twenty years.  As a certified child life specialist at The Children's Hospital of NY, providing therapeutic activities for children facing chronic or life threatening illness.

In her private practice, Practical Parenting Solutions, she works with children and families facing a variety of extraordinary circumstances.  Through her training at the Holistic Healing Center at Beth Israel Hospital, Genevieve has created curriculum that teaches the fundamentals of relaxation, guided imagery, and Reiki to children and families.  Currently, Genevieve is an adjunct professor at Bank Street College of Education in NY, NY; she has also been a consultant to www.pbsparents.org.In addition, she is an accomplished lecturer, and published author.