Recognize that seeing and thinking are different through the lens of photography.

Taught by Koru Trainer Tim Auman. Open to all Koru students and teachers.

Thinking relates to the world through ideas and mental images. Seeing perceives things directly, just as they are. Participants practice giving themselves and their mind a break.

Contemplative photography is a discipline that trains participants to allow things to be as they really are, which can be incredibly useful training as a Koru teacher/student. It also holds up a mirror to our concepts and judgments that are often hidden from us. Because the camera is objective, it literally illustrates through the photos we take how different our perceptions and concepts can be. When the camera shows us something very different from what we thought we saw, we know we were seeing with our judgments and not our eyes.  Becoming more aware of our hidden likes and dislikes in small things is a great beginning in trying to minimize the harm we can create in the world arising from our unconscious biases.

Participants will be assigned photographic explorations each week and will submit their images to be shared with the group.

• Open to Koru teachers & students!
• Maximum enrollment: 15
• Registration deadline: July 3

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