What It Captures
The optional summary captures compassionate qualities, felt experience, and barriers to receiving compassion when the client chooses to share them.
Ideal Compassionate Other Imagery
Ideal Compassionate Other Imagery is a live CFT guided imagery practice for practitioners. Practitioners use it to help a client imagine being related to by an ideally compassionate presence with care, wisdom, strength, and nonjudgment.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Does Not Do
The tool does not require visual details, assign standardized ratings, diagnose attachment patterns, or interpret the imagined presence.
Is this a character design tool?
No. It is a guided relational imagery practice focused on the felt experience of receiving compassion.
Does the client have to share image details?
No. The client controls what qualities or imagery content they disclose.
What if receiving compassion feels uncomfortable?
The practice can be stopped or scaled back, and barriers can be recorded descriptively for practitioner follow-up.