GUIDED PRACTICES
Experiments in Attention, Awe, and Collective Life
Contemporary life is organised around optimisation — productivity, performance, self-management — shaping how we experience time, attention, and ourselves. These counter-practices offer a brief step outside that logic, slowing attention and restoring shared presence, curiosity, and meaning.
About you…
You may be functioning well on paper, yet feel inwardly compressed or saturated. Not broken, but overstimulated. You may be seeking moments of awe, exchange, or genuine conversation that remind you what human life can feel like beyond metrics and performance.
About these counter-practices…
These are research-informed counter-practices that resist optimisation. Not self-improvement, but reorientation: restoring depth, sensory richness, and shared attention. They take the form of facilitated half-day or day-long sessions shaped by psychology and neuroscience, where slowed engagement — often with art or complex cultural material — supports regulation, curiosity, and connection.
Modern environments keep attention fractured and the nervous system on constant alert. These practices do the opposite. They slow perception and open space for forms of experience that rarely survive optimisation: extended looking, interpretive play, aesthetic immersion. In doing so, they invite curiosity, meaning-making, and exploratory thought to re-emerge — not as performance, but as pleasure.
Our labs turn this into lived experience. Often hosted in museums or cultural spaces, they centre on guided encounters with artworks, objects, music, or ideas that resist quick interpretation. Conversation unfolds slowly, without pressure to conclude or explain. Meaning is allowed to arrive late — if it arrives at all.
These are not therapies and they promise no transformation. They are invitations: to linger, to look together, to think aloud, and to feel what becomes possible when attention is held in common rather than extracted.
Keeping it authentic, fearless and compassionate
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