How many of you feel truly and authentically seen for who you are?
I expect the percentage of “yes” answers would be quite low. But the interesting question is: “What would need to be true for that answer to be a yes?”
That’s a fascinating design challenge. For parents, students, educators and others, hearing the answers to that question would be amazing. Because feeling seen is so fundamental to human existence, yet we rarely design explicitly for it.
What if we designed a program, a class, a space that was optimized for “seen-ness”?