Wonder Anew is a listening and question-guided process for exploring personal difficulty. 

Troubled? What to do? As scared, angry, awful or confused as you might feel, look at your difficulty. Get curious.

Tim Olmsted tells a story about a child who comes crying to a parent in the night about a monster under the bed. Instead of admonishing the child to stop crying, ignore, or dismiss the problem as silly, he reminds us that we can hold our crying child and then look under the bed to face the monster.

Wonder Anew is a similar invitation. Only we hold ourselves with that loving tenderness as we face a personal monster or difficulty. Amazing as it seems, the act of looking is like getting a flashlight to see what our mind creates and can transform.

Facing the monster is how we begin.

“The river is everywhere.” ~ Herman Hesse, Siddhartha    Image: © TAK Do-yeon, filmmaker, artist, and first responder to Wonder Anew lives in South Korea. She poetically writes about her difficulty—an accident, then depression. Her journey awakens a new perspective, depicted here. No longer caught up in the river or her difficulty, she begins to flow with it noticing things that were invisible before her accident. Read more here.