GIM Guide as Spiritual Director
Beck, Donna Marie - Volume: 8
This article explores the special relationship between the guide and the traveler during a Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) session and draws parallels between it and the relationship between the director and directee in a Spiritual Direction session. Both of these processes are unique ways of becoming more deeply aware of self in relationship to the
world in which we live. Both processes require listening as a means to discovering the truth of the moment. It is within this context that both the GIM guide and the spiritual director grow as they interact and tend to the mystery of the GIM traveler and the directee in the spiritual journey. A phenomenological view of the dualism of being in the world in a calculative,
functional way as opposed to being in the world in a meditative or reflective way will be explored by examining both of these processes.