First Steps to Seeing

A Path Towards Living Attentively

By: Emma Kidd

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Paperback | 14 August 2015

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256 Pages

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15.7 x 23.4 x 2.8

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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.

Industry Reviews

'I love Emma's book and the expression she gives to 'work as the gift' - this resonates deeply with me. How we value ourselves, whether we choose to view our work as a gift and whether we self-determine our own happiness - that is our gift, should we choose to see it. Emma's wonderful book opens us up to a whole new way of seeing.'
--Polly Higgins, International Ecocide law advocate

'Emma Kidd is a practical visionary and her book, ?First Steps to Seeing? is a most useful companion on our journey of transformation. Read this book ? you will be delighted.'
--Satish Kumar, Editor-in-Chief, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine

'By offering many practical exercises and personal experiences, Emma helps us to discover the missed dimension of cognition in perception, opening up a new window on the world. First Steps to Seeing is a deeply insightful guide for anyone wishing to fully experience a more meaningful life, and engage more authentically with people, our organisations and the environment.'
--Simon Robinson, co-author of Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter

'First Steps to Seeing offers suggestions for seeing differently, both in its accessible and interesting text and also by means of simple but
powerful experiments and observations, which include separating emotion from perception, and
practising ?lived experience? and ?exact sensorial imagination?.'
-- Pat Williams, Human Givens Magazine

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