Questions without answers
Card 12 of 52
Put it on the board and read it out. Nothing to prepare.
School gives us many reasons to look for answers. For the next two minutes, we will stay with questions instead.
Gather a few questions you genuinely wonder about. They can be serious or completely ordinary.
Choose one and resist solving it straight away. Notice what it is like to let a question stay open.
If you are willing, offer your question to the room. We will listen without trying to answer it today.
That’s the practice.
Listen for Some questions may draw laughter or quick answers, so remind the group that we are receiving each question and leaving it open.
The skill of awe. The practice of opening yourself with wonder to what is mysterious, vast, and beyond your full understanding.
When did you last let yourself be genuinely curious, struck by wonder at something you didn't fully understand? What helps you stay open to it?
The skill of awe
The practice of opening yourself with wonder to what is mysterious, vast, and beyond your full understanding.
Try it yourself first
“Bigger Than You” takes a few quiet minutes, just for you, before you teach it. Nothing you write in it is saved or sent.
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