Approaching the World with Wonder | Season 2 Wrap-Up of Learning How to See
What could happen if we approached the world in silent wonder, with a humility and openness to learning? Brian McLaren is back for Season 2 of Learning How to See with Gigi Ross, Mike Petrow, and Paul Swanson unpacking the biases that impact the way we see — and ultimately love — ourselves and each other.
Explore the Trailer
Get a sense for season two of Learning How to See with this podcast trailer:
Building on the first season’s exploration of thirteen common biases, this second season focuses on turning the desire to see more clearly into a lived, embodied spiritual practice.
The season aims not only to help listeners understand their biases more deeply, but also to cultivate the desire and spiritual capacity to “learn to see” through prayer and contemplative practice.
Highlights from Learning How to See Season 2
On this season of Learning How to See, listeners have the chance to participate in specially curated practices for each bias, designed to stretch and deepen our hearts so that we can transform how we see into how we pray.
Explore each unique episode here:
- The Big Ditch — On this introductory episode, Brian McClaren, Gigi Ross, Mike Petrow, and Paul Swanson review the biases.
- Going Against the Flow — Learn more about the community bias, complementarity bias, and contact bias.
- Mountain Climbers — Explore biases related to the social-political dimensions of seeing.
- Boxes Inside Boxes — What is the conservative/liberal bias? And what is the comfort bias?
- Hate and Love — Our hosts talk about biases in social-political dimensions.
- What Do You Want? — Our brains prefer a confident lie to a hesitant truth.
- Bonus: Begin Again from the Very Beginning — Reflect on the dynamics of suffering and the art of beginning again.
Transcripts are available for each episode.
On every season of Learning How to See listeners are invited to discover new perspectives and experience transformation. New episodes are coming soon!
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