The Vision Board Exercise

Vision Board is an amazing and effective creative process to motivate and to help individuals and groups set goals.

A vision board is a visual aid that reflects your group’s motivations and goals. It’s a representation of what’s important to the well-being of your group and a focal point on what they want to achieve.

They also ignite good feeling emotions which help keep groups motivated, inspired and connected.

The primary purpose of the project is to inject a sense of belonging and team bonding. The visual components of a vision board will help spark ideas and motivation as well as invite connected conversation.

In advance, gather a bunch of magazines or other pictorial literature, or ask group members to bring their own. Gather a collection of craft materials.

Instruct your group to select and cut out one or more images and/or quotes that represent a goal or something that they would like to accomplish in regards to the wellbeing of the group (or other objective.) The key to this task is that your group can successfully visually express their goals with the variety of images they have chosen.

You can have one person place their image on the board one at a time or complete the task in small groups. You can also have each person create their own mini vision board to share with the group.

Allow 30 to 45 minutes for your group to paste a collage of images to create their vision board.

Invite your group to reflect on what they experienced during the activity. Conversations about motivation, community, individual goals, group goals as well as individual wellbeing and group wellbeing are all great conversation starters.

Moment of Reflection

• What image stuck out for you and why?
• Which image do you feel is the most important and why?
• What are some ideas in ways our group can use this tool?
• Were there any challenges your group faced in this exercise?
• Did you feel connected to the group before this exercise?
• Do you feel more connected to the group after this exercise?
• What have you learned about this tool?
• What have we learned about the ways we are motivated and inspired by images and each other?

The topics of this publication: creativity, teamwork, imagination, motivation, wellbeing