What is a vision board?

Making a vision board sounds like a good idea. But it sounds like a lot of work, too. Am I right? (it really isn’t) Don’t put it off any longer!

To draw more of what you want into your life and ensure your vision board gets made, throw a vision board party (or join my online one). As someone who has attended and hosted many vision board parties), I can totally say that these get-togethers are a great way to define your best life, while helping others realise their dreams. They’re lots of fun, too!

Whether you’re making boards with friends, family or kids — follow these vision board party tips for an inspirational and entertaining event.

What is a vision board

A vision board is a collage that uses the law of attraction to draw more of what you want into your life and helps you realise what and what you don’t need in your life to make these goals happen. Vision boards can focus on something specific like career, love life, or the upcoming year. Or, you can make a board that encompasses your general life intentions. These are great things to get kids involved with, a perfect activity for a rainy day.

To make a vision board that will help you achieve your goals, first cut pictures and phrases out of magazines that represent your desires and goals. You can also print images from websites or include your own photos in the collage. Next, glue the images and words onto a canvas frame and place it somewhere you can see it on a regular basis. (Mine is hanging in my office.) Then look at it daily, remember what you have promised yourself, find new opportunities that will help them manifest and wait for the magic to happen!

Why host a vision board party

Throwing a vision board party motivates you to set aside the time needed to create a vision board to draw positive things into your life. Plus, you will have more magazines from which to select your images and phrases. And it’s a great excuse to get friends or family together!

How to plan a vision board party

When planning your vision board party, keep the number of attendees to a manageable number. I suggest inviting six to ten friends, or however many can comfortably fit around your kitchen or dining room table. Be sure not to invite any Debbie Downers to the shindig, either. You don’t need that kind of energy messing up everyone’s vision boards.

My advice is to skip paper invitations and just send a text, messenger or email invite. The point is to de-stress your life, not add more unneeded tasks. In your messages, you should request a few things. Why not ask each guest to bring a stack of old magazines and their own pair of scissors to keep your own costs down.

What to buy for your vision party

A bunch of glue sticks.
Lots of pairs of scissors and a pair of left-handed scissors for the lefties in your life.
One canvas per person
Snacks and drinks to share (lots of sugary treats to keep your energy levels high).
Extra magazines.
For extra flair, get some stick-on poster letters, shapes, sparkles or phrases.

When to host your party

The start of a new year (and new moon) is a wonderful time to throw a vision board party. Or, you could make boards to celebrate a birthday, graduation or other momentous life change. You do not need to wait for a specific reason. Any time is a good time to get together with friends or family to focus on life goals and happiness during a vision board party! Why not host one as a works team event?

Remember that food and drinks are often the focal point of a typical party, but the main goal of a vision board party is to create a positive physical representation of what you and your guests want out of life. To keep the focus on the boards, steer clear of hosting your party during mealtimes. Instead, choose a late morning or mid-afternoon start time.

Food and drink suggestions

Since hands will be busy flipping through magazines, cutting out images, and gluing things onto poster boards, stick with simple snacks that don’t make a lot of mess. Suggestions include cheese and crackers, veggies and dip, a fruit plate, non-greasy crisps, cookies or muffins. For a festive party with adult attendees, you may want to serve bucks fizz for a morning party or wine and beer at a later party. No matter the age of attendees, it’s always a good idea to have some fun non-alcoholic drinks on hand like sparkling water, juice and craft sodas. Put drinks in iced buckets so guests can serve themselves. To simplify things further for you as the host, you might ask everyone to bring a starter, dessert or drink to share instead.

What to do at your vision board party

To kick off your vision board party, start with introductions and intentions. Go around the table and have all attendees state their name and what they hope to achieve with their vision board. For example, the primary purposes for my latest vision board were to find more: work-life balance, connection with my kids, time in nature, healthy living and, of course, travel.

After setting intentions, get to work. Clip those magazines to pieces. Meanwhile, eat, drink and be merry with your fellow vision board makers!

How to make a vision board

I suggest laying out a general design for your board before you start gluing. You might also want to put a strong image of your central intention in the middle of your board. My own image was of a girl dressed up as wonder woman! For me, this represents my need to help and support many people through my various coaching and mentoring sessions and courses.

You should also leave some white space. This gives room to add additional images as you find them. Plus the white space allows room for serenity on your board. If there is too much chaos, you might just draw chaos to your life!

Be sure to paste everything onto the poster boards AT THE PARTY! At my first vision board party, some of my friends had to leave early and took their clippings and boards home separately. Of course, they intended to glue the pictures to their poster boards. That was years ago and I know at least one friend who has never finished her vision board.

Tips for hosting a vision board party with kids

Making vision boards with kids is a wonderful way to help children focus on being positive. This activity can also give kids a sense of empowerment over how they want to live their lives. Without guidance, children may look at this as merely an opportunity to make a pretty collage or they might just cut out a lot of images of material things like toys and candy, instead of focusing on what truly matters to them. When hosting a vision board party with children, you may need to help kids define what types of things they want to paste to their boards and assist them to find appropriate pictures.

Ask questions to help kids understand what kinds of things they might want to paste to their boards. Sample questions include:

What do you like to do for fun with your friends and family?
What are three goals you’d like to achieve (this year/in your life)?
At what activity, sport or school subject would you like to improve?
What would a really happy day look like for you?
If you could go anywhere in the world on holiday, where would that be?
Do you have a favourite animal, colour or food that you’d like to add to your vision board?
Is there someone you really admire? Who and why?

Once kids have defined some goals and things that bring them joy, you (and other adult participants) can help them find images that match these. Point out relevant images that you find, but leave it up to kids to decide if they belong on their boards. Kids should feel ownership and pride in their vision boards. Only they know what belongs in their vision.

Be open to how your visions are realised

Once you create a vision board to help define what you want in your life, you should work toward your goals but understand that your desires might manifest in different ways than you imagined.

Be ready for cancelled plans, but be aware of how they may turn up again in another opportunity - but you have to keep imagining and dreaming of this goal, how does it feel to touch the sand in your bare feet, how does it feel to open the door to the new car - how does it sound on the open road? (you get the picture!)

Time for another party!

As time moves on, our goals and desires change. Even if you’ve made a vision board in the past, you may consider making another one. I have made several vision boards and Each board I’ve made is special in different ways.

Why not make these an annual event with friends and take turns hosting or why not get together at work and have a team-building day sharing your goals for the future.

Save these tips!

Be sure to save these vision board party tips for future reference. Simply pin the image above to Pinterest. I hope you’ll follow SHARON HOWAT on Pinterest while you’re at it!

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