First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively
A visionary book that offers practical ways for us to better understand how we interact with the world, and how greater attentiveness can lead to positive social change.

This insightful book argues that, in this rapidly changing world full of social, economic and environmental uncertainties, we must each develop an inner capacity to respond and adapt to life in creative and innovative ways.

Emma Kidd proposes that the path to a happy, healthy and peaceful world begins with the individual. By learning to recognize our cognitive habits of interrupting and defining life through our fixed ideas, labels and judgements, we can begin to develop a dynamic way of seeing that enables us to more attentively perceive and respond to life, with benefits for ourselves and those around us.

First Steps to Seeing offers a practical set of stepping stones that guide the reader into this dynamic way of seeing and relating. Using personal stories, practical exercises and real-world case studies in development, education and business, Kidd takes the reader on a journey to explore how to give our full attention to life, and how to enliven the world that we each co-create. An inspiring guide for all those working for social change in youth work, business, education or research, or simply seeking fresh paths in life.

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First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively
A visionary book that offers practical ways for us to better understand how we interact with the world, and how greater attentiveness can lead to positive social change.

This insightful book argues that, in this rapidly changing world full of social, economic and environmental uncertainties, we must each develop an inner capacity to respond and adapt to life in creative and innovative ways.

Emma Kidd proposes that the path to a happy, healthy and peaceful world begins with the individual. By learning to recognize our cognitive habits of interrupting and defining life through our fixed ideas, labels and judgements, we can begin to develop a dynamic way of seeing that enables us to more attentively perceive and respond to life, with benefits for ourselves and those around us.

First Steps to Seeing offers a practical set of stepping stones that guide the reader into this dynamic way of seeing and relating. Using personal stories, practical exercises and real-world case studies in development, education and business, Kidd takes the reader on a journey to explore how to give our full attention to life, and how to enliven the world that we each co-create. An inspiring guide for all those working for social change in youth work, business, education or research, or simply seeking fresh paths in life.

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First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively

First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively

by Emma Kidd
First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively

First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively

by Emma Kidd

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A visionary book that offers practical ways for us to better understand how we interact with the world, and how greater attentiveness can lead to positive social change.

This insightful book argues that, in this rapidly changing world full of social, economic and environmental uncertainties, we must each develop an inner capacity to respond and adapt to life in creative and innovative ways.

Emma Kidd proposes that the path to a happy, healthy and peaceful world begins with the individual. By learning to recognize our cognitive habits of interrupting and defining life through our fixed ideas, labels and judgements, we can begin to develop a dynamic way of seeing that enables us to more attentively perceive and respond to life, with benefits for ourselves and those around us.

First Steps to Seeing offers a practical set of stepping stones that guide the reader into this dynamic way of seeing and relating. Using personal stories, practical exercises and real-world case studies in development, education and business, Kidd takes the reader on a journey to explore how to give our full attention to life, and how to enliven the world that we each co-create. An inspiring guide for all those working for social change in youth work, business, education or research, or simply seeking fresh paths in life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782501695
Publisher: Floris Books
Publication date: 09/03/2024
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emma Kidd is a lecturer in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College, UK. She is also a writer, researcher and consultant. Her practice is centred around leading living inquiries into how we can co-create a happy, healthy, and peaceful world. She works with educational charities, third sector organizations and businesses. She lives in Devon, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Author's Preface 11

Introduction: Living Through The Senses 13

Part 1 Developing a Dynamic Way of Seeing

Chapter 1 More to Seeing Than Meets the Eye 21

I can see a holly tree 21

The mind's 'best guess' 24

Seeing our mind in action 29

Our divided brain 32

A hall of mirrors 37

Sensing life 39

Chapter 2 Rediscovering Our Own Experience 42

First light 42

From thought to awareness 44

Eating breakfast 48

Attentive noticing 51

Focusing attention on our senses 55

Chapter 3 Imagination - A Mirror for Life 62

Skydiving in my mind 62

New ways of using our imagination 63

Animating our experience 67

Seeing colour - Goethe and Newton 69

Light and dark 72

The same but different 74

Chapter 4 Understanding Wholeness 79

Photographing life in Hong Kong 79

Opening our attention 81

Experiencing wholeness 87

A hologram of Princess Leia 90

Counterfeit stock cubes 93

Part 2 Giving Life Our Full Attention

Chapter 5 A Fresh Approach to Life 99

Feeling wonder 99

Seeing with fresh new eyes 101

Living context 105

Love and knowledge 107

Chapter 6 Seeing Inside Ourselves 113

Life crisis in Hong Kong 113

The power of vulnerability 117

Unconditional acceptance 119

Being fully alive 122

Chapter 7 The Ways in Which We Relate 126

Suspending judgments 126

A living inquiry 130

More to hearing than meets the ear 133

Restorative justice 137

Chapter 8 A Dynamic Way of Seeing At Work 142

Re-imagining economics: Manfred Max-Neef and Human Scale Development 152

Reviving education: 'Learning in Depth' 152

Re-visioning science: The Nature Institute 159

Re-designing business: The Hiut Denim company 166

Conclusion: From Surviving to Thriving 176

The end is only a new beginning… 176

Endnotes 179

Bibliography 186

Index 188

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