These introductory adventure meditations guide the formation of first contact with the inner child through shared imagination, movement, and play. What begins as simple presence develops into exploration, discovery, and trust. Each journey introduces new ways of relating—through curiosity, sensation, creativity, and shared action—allowing the inner child to feel met and accompanied. As the series unfolds, experience becomes more confident and expressive, preparing the ground for longer narrative forms to emerge naturally through relationship rather than direction. – Recorded in May 2021.
Meditation One establishes first contact through shared presence and movement. You meet your inner child on the beach, attuning to breath, body, and environment before lifting into open sky together. Wonder, freedom, and orientation emerge through expansive imagery, allowing the relationship to form around curiosity and safety. The return to the shore anchors the experience, showing how exploration and reflection naturally belong together.
Meditation Two introduces depth and discovery. The inner child leads you into the water and toward hidden spaces, revealing how curiosity opens passageways into richer inner terrain. Symbols of treasure, transport, and return appear, teaching how meaning is gathered, carried, and integrated. The journey emphasises trust in the child’s guidance and the shared capacity to move between inner and outer worlds.
Meditation Three develops confidence in transformation. The landscape becomes more complex, moving through foliage, elevation, heat, and elemental force. Risk, playfulness, and trust are explored through shared action, culminating in a return shaped by creativity. The inner child demonstrates how new experiences are metabolised through imagination and embodiment.
Meditation Four introduces symbolic structure and inquiry. The inner child guides you through thresholds, descent, and ordered spaces, revealing how symbols invite reflection, learning, and dialogue beyond the meditation itself. The suggestion to research and return opens a living bridge between imagination and real-world knowledge, establishing short, meaningful points of contact that deepen the relationship.
Together, these meditations establish a stable, communicative bond with your inner child. You learn multiple ways of relating: through play, exploration, dialogue, rest, creativity, shared action, and curiosity. Trust develops naturally, and the inner child begins to signal readiness for longer narrative forms. Meaning is no longer sought through interpretation, but through participation.
As this relationship matures, a natural shift often occurs. The inner child, now met with trust, curiosity, and shared language, begins to move beyond single journeys and moments of contact. She starts to organise experience into sequences, returning to places, symbols, and themes, and shaping them into something more continuous. Rather than responding to prompts, she begins to author her own structures for meaning.
This is the point at which the inner world becomes storied. Images link together. Landscapes develop history. Characters reappear. What once felt like exploration becomes narrative, and the inner child takes on the role of guide, storyteller, and architect of her own symbolic world. The adult self remains present as witness and guardian, allowing understanding to emerge through relationship rather than direction.
This longer-form process is called Chaptering.
Chaptering unfolds across several guided sessions, forming a coherent arc rather than isolated experiences. The inner child decides what is shown, when it appears, and how it is approached. Meaning develops through participation, not interpretation. Personal history, symbolic imagery, and ancestral threads are woven together in a way that feels organic, intelligible, and held.
For many people, Chaptering feels like stepping inside a story that already knows its rhythm. If you sense your inner child beginning to build, return, and connect her worlds, this work offers a space for those stories to unfold, one chapter at a time.