“GIM grabs you, it takes you into the experience that you're ready to have”: An interview with Jim Borling

Abstract

Jim Borling is a renowned practitioner and primary trainer of the Bonny method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM). His career spans more than thirty years. From the Atlantis Institute for Consciousness and Music, he offers training in several countries such as Spain, where the interviewer currently attends his seminars. In this interview, he explains that GIM is something that changed his own life as well as the lives of many others. This is due to the fact that GIM approaches not only the psycho-social, psycho-emotional, and biographic aspects of clients’ therapeutic work, but also the spiritual dimension of people. He goes over the past, the present, and the future of BMGIM. This semi-structured interview is based on the transcription of a recorded online meeting. We tried to keep the tone informal, offering the vitality of our spoken conversation. Our aim here is to capture a way of understanding and experiencing this method which is increasingly recognised worldwide.