For the past few years, I’ve been building awe into my everyday — and it’s changed how I create, connect, and move through the world. It started with a conversation with artist Coco Lom, who introduced me to the work of psychologist Dacher Keltner. His research shows that awe helps calm the nervous system, boost creativity, and bring us closer to each other. Since then, awe seeking has shaped much of my work, including how I create in the studio. Coco and I have since co-developed Walk + Awe and Music + Awe to explore collective effervescence (that feeling when we move and feel something together). This activity is one of the simplest ways to experience awe. It’s about noticing the moments that stop you in your tracks and remind you that life is full of quiet wonder. A glint of light, a good song, a stranger being kind. Awe isn’t rare. We’re just often too busy to see it.

Activity: Awe Spotting (At Home or Anywhere)

You don’t have to go far to feel awe. This is about noticing what’s around you, and remembering how amazing ordinary life can be.

How to do it:

1. Choose your spot
You could be at home, in a café, on a bench, on the bus. Settle in for 10–15 minutes.

2. Be still and look around
Find five things that make you pause or feel something: light through a window, a shadow on the wall, a stranger helping someone, a pattern, a colour, a snippet of music.

3. Capture your awe
Jot down your five awe moments, sketch them, take a photo, or voice note what you noticed.

4. Reflect
What did you almost miss? What stood out? What feeling are you left with?

5. Bonus
Share one awe-spot with a friend or online. Awe multiplies when we pass it on.