Exploring the dimensions of community visioning has led me to many wise teachers, some much younger than I. I bow in gratitude to Clare Cooper Marcus, who initiated me into the miracles of guided imagery in 1973. At that time, Clare was a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. In an innovative process called an ‘environmental autobiography’, she invited students to explore their favourite childhood environments. Part of the process was a guided meditation asking students to recall a favourite childhood place. Clare’s work is chronicled in a number of professional papers and adaptations of her approach are reported in many publications and in her book, House as Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home (second edition, 2006), which contains one of my drawings from such an exercise, which I reproduce on the following page.