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Bringing discoveries into ordinary choices

Bring honesty, qualities of attention and a helpful point of contact into an ordinary choice, and explore conditions that make access possible.

Our approach · Part 5 of 6

Return to the part of daily life you chose at the start. What did you intend, what did you want when the moment arrived, and what happened within you? Keep returning to this experience so that changes become something you can recognise for yourself.

Bring honesty, a helpful point of contact and a quality you have recognised into the same exploration. Perhaps curiosity, steadiness or a little joy became accessible. What tells you it was there? What was happening around that moment? We look at the experience and the conditions together.

Let a discovery inform the next arrangement

In the bedtime illustration, you can still choose to keep watching after a truthful pause. The note gives us something to hear together: watching is fun, sleep feels boring, and that is what you wanted. The point of the conversation is developing honesty and feeling held within it, rather than using the note to record obedience or failure.

A creative arrangement can emerge from what you discover. Nisha’s bath-and-laundry illustration connects an activity with something the person looks forward to. Help from someone else, timing, the environment or a connection with another activity may offer another possibility. The intention can stay alive while its form changes.

SEEDS thinking looks at the person, body, activity, relationships, environment and surrounding demands together. Explore a condition within reach, then notice what becomes accessible. Bring back the choice and the experience around it, including enjoyment or difficulty. Some changes may be slow, with other conditions still making things difficult. Look at what you actually experience over time, including changes before the desired outcome has been reached.

The practical articles are resources to consult when you are stuck or want to explore a possibility. As you introduce something into your day, stay close to your own experience of what happens.

Questions to explore

  • Which quality was available in that moment?

  • What differences have I directly experienced over time, and what condition would I like to explore next?

Why this part is here

Recognition and conditions meet in ordinary life. This part brings earlier discoveries into the same conversation: honesty, contact, feeling held and creative engagement. We can use a real situation to explore how they become accessible, and return to whichever theme is useful for you.

See this part in the six-week outline →

Sources and further reading

Research notes and references

This reading brings together Nisha’s existing bedtime and bath illustrations and the programme’s fifth theme. The course applies the SEEDS way of examining interacting conditions to ADHD coaching. The full model was originally presented for paediatric occupational therapy.

Read alongside this part

Further sources

  • The SEEDS model

    Read the public framework for looking at the person and their circumstances together.

Course outline and the reason for this theme · All six course readings