Coaching practices for Shared Wonder
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Shared Wonder, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- 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
- When something strikes me as beautiful I almost always keep it to myself, even with someone right beside me
- I half-believe I’m just not a wonder person because I never get anywhere grand, but every so often a song or a turn of phrase or the light hitting something just right genuinely stops me
- The few times I’ve been swept up in something huge in a crowd
- 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
- 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 - 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 - Build a personal catalog of micro-awe triggers
Identify the small, reliable stimuli in your everyday environment that reliably produce a mild sense of wonder — and use them deliberately.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical - Seek awe in collective rituals and shared experience
Experience something vast alongside others to amplify both the awe and the connection.
Awe and the Small Self - 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. - 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 - 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 - Use awe to reconnect with something larger than yourself
When awe makes the self feel small, follow the natural impulse toward belonging — toward community, nature, or humanity at large.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical - Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion
Awe expands perceived time, reduces self-focused thought, and increases prosocial behavior — and it can be deliberately accessed.
Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical - Courting the small self
Seek experiences that make you feel small in a good way — and notice the relief in it.
Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
Related concerns
- Awe Walks And The Science Of Wonder During A Big Change
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.
- Awe And Meaning
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.
- Benefits Of Experiencing Awe
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.
- Experiencing Wonder Together
Experience and talk about wonder together to deepen both the awe and the bond.
Sharing awe with others
- How To Experience Awe
Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
Seek out awe
- Seek Awe Daily
Find wonder in small, intricate things when you cannot get to a grand vista.
Micro-awe in the ordinary
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