This presentation shares a classroom model that adapts Carl Jung’s active imagination and other contemporary visualization practices into a working method of visual research. Through guided exercises based in memory, dream, and observation, students generate written and sketched artifacts: raw material they shape into grounded characters, environments, and concepts. Developed through the continuing education course, Active Imagination: Ideation Process for Creatives at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2022 and later refined in undergraduate illustration projects at Pratt Institute and Queens College, CUNY, the approach strengthens skills essential to a sustainable studio practice, including attention, associative thinking, and ideation. This session shares prompts, student examples, and reflections on applying the method in diverse educational contexts.