Coaching practices for Documentary Awe

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I can’t exactly hop on a plane to see the northern lights, but I’m stuck at home most nights half-watching something while scrolling my phone
• When something strikes me as beautiful I almost always keep it to myself, even with someone right beside me
• I keep thinking wonder is something that only happens at a mountain or a grand canyon, so I save it for some trip I never take
• I think I’d need a grand vacation or some once-a-year spectacle to feel genuinely moved, so I just don’t
• On the rare clear night I glance up and for a second the sheer depth of all those stars hits me

Practices that may help

1. Use documentary and large-scale art to trigger awe
   Watch content that conveys genuine vastness — deep space, ecosystems, historical scale — with full attention rather than as background.
   Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
2. Sharing awe with others
   Experience and talk about wonder together to deepen both the awe and the bond.
   Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
3. Micro-awe in the ordinary
   Find wonder in small, intricate things when you cannot get to a grand vista.
   Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
4. Seek out awe
   Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
   Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
5. Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
   An awe walk is an ordinary walk taken with attention deliberately turned outward toward things vast or wondrous — sky, scale, intricacy, beauty. Doing so reliably shrinks self-focus and lifts mood in controlled studies; the effects are real but modest and depend on actually directing attention outward rather than walking lost in thought.
6. Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
   Awe — the emotion triggered by encountering something vast that challenges your current mental frameworks — reliably reduces self-focused thinking, lowers inflammatory markers in some studies, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the perceived sense of time available. Dacher Keltner’s research shows awe is more accessible than people think and can be deliberately cultivated without waiting for once-in-a-decade peak experiences.
7. Stargazing and the vastness of scale
   Look up at a dark night sky and let the sheer scale do the work.
   Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
8. Seek moral beauty as a source of awe
   Let acts of extraordinary courage, kindness, or virtue stop you the way a mountain does.
   Awe and the Small Self
9. Write from a small-self perspective after awe
   After an awe experience, write briefly from the perspective of someone whose personal concerns feel appropriately small.
   Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
10. The awe walk
    Take a regular walk with attention deliberately turned outward toward the vast and the wondrous.
    Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder

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