Mindscaping is based on the concept that persons have an internal map with metaphors for each topic or issue they are confronted with as an internal mental representation. Mindscaping is similar to guided visualization or imagery as sometimes used in Mindfulness routines. Mindscaping uses the client’s unconscious mind in a complex landscape of metaphors and symbols of the internal architecture with the option to adapt and change these for altering the perception and the subjective experience of the topic.
One imagines a map of a town below the chair one is sitting on. The map spreads out in each direction until the horizon, becomes 3 dimensional with all the objects that are there - some natural and some man-made, and one is landscaping, this means changing things, objects for one's own purpose, to make them more attractive and to enable moving around in the landscape and into an attractive future. The protocol instructs the person’s unconscious mind to communicate the internal mental pictures and the metaphors with their changes will unlock the situation. This changes the internal representation and the perception of the topic one works on considerably and lets the person have a much better feeling about it.