Seeing What’s Here, Now

Think of a challenge, issue, or goal you’d like help thinking through. Something with some heat or weight. Something you keep coming back to or can’t get out of your mind. Hold it lightly — try to don’t figure it out yet.

You don’t need to deliberate. Feel your way. First thought, best thought.

Select one image to start viewing the gallery below. Choose 5 images and hit “X” in the top right corner when you are finished. Then click “Begin Practice” to start the contemplation.

A Self-Guided Practice for Leadership & Learning

Using Images to See and Understand What’s Possible

Seeing What You Carry — Image Gallery

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Your Practice

Here are the five images you chose. Let them sit together for a moment before you begin.

Step 1

What's Here For You, Now?

Choose one of your images for your current situation.

What does this image tell you about how you’re experiencing things — not just what’s happening around you, but how you’re holding it? What do you notice in the image that attracts or surprises you?

Step 2

What Are You Carrying?

Choose one or two images for the challenge or emotion here for you, now.

What’s the weight? What’s asking for your attention that you may have been avoiding rather than exploring? What feels protective rather than productive?

Step 3

What Could You Shift?

Choose one or two images for the path forward. What's possible? What needs to change?

What would it take to move forward? To shift your mindset or behavior? What’s one thing you could do — not a plan or strategy yet, but a single, concrete action that honors what these images are revealing for you?

Step 4

What Are You Learning?

Choose one image for what this practice is revealing. About the issue? About you?

What do you know now that you didn’t ten minutes ago? About the situation? About yourself? What’s shifted — even slightly? What could you let go of...? How could this image or what it represents ground or support you going forward? What’s next? What’s possible?! What’s here for you, now...?