About the Book:

In How to Notice, Melissa A. Butler draws on over two decades of experience as an educator, leader, speaker, and facilitator of noticing-based practices to share a refreshing guide for expanded awareness, delight, and well-being.

As whimsical as it is serious, How to Notice takes you on a slow and surprising journey that starts small (find an object, look closely, wonder about it), and steadily grows as you notice things you didn’t quite expect and discover new layers of awareness deep inside yourself.

Organized as a series of twenty small moments for practice over time, readers are invited to notice at their own pace and slowly integrate this into their daily lives. There’s plenty of space to rest and reflect along the way, and the book includes supplemental material for extension and application.

Reading How to Notice is an embodiment of play, with each moment of practice inviting readers to try something new, shift their perspective, wonder with whimsy, and find surprise in the smallest of things.

This is a book for right now, in a decade that calls for play and reinvention, for serious work done lightly, for deep connection to the roots of ourselves and each other, for new ways of understanding energy and matter, for liberation of being, for transforming everything from a place of deep and radical alignment with the wholeness of who we are.

Trade Nonfiction | Mind-Body-Spirit | Creative Practice Paperback | 5x7 | 138 pages | ISBN 978-1-7372578-0-6

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Engage with the ideas and practices explored in the book through a workshop, talk, study group, guided noticing practice, or hybrid experience:

How to Notice feels like a children’s book at first. I was playing along, getting to know my collection of small things. And then, BAM, the whole experience turned profound. I slowed down and saw things that had been invisible to me. I experienced moments and people with fresh eyes. If you want to know yourself better and enjoy life more – grab and read this book, completing every chapter’s assignment as if your life depends on it. Because maybe it does.

-Sharon Eakes, MA, BCC, Coach, Author, Trainer

The whole energy of How to Notice is an invitation to slowness. The idea that we can listen and receive from objects brings me into a special place in my being, like meditation does. I found this book both potent and delightful.

-Iesha Delune, Author, Speaker, Life Coach

How to Notice is a small book that will make a significant impact on your life. It reminded me to take the time to notice everywhere. It gave me permission to use more than my eyes to notice the beauty of the world around me.

-Katy Carroll, Ph.D., Kindergarten Teacher

Melissa A. Butler’s How to Notice brings us into a moment of pause, of presence, of breath. Also delight, wonder, surprise, and imagination. This book is a subtle gift, like a secret stone in your pocket. Treasure it and pass it on to a friend you love.

-Daven Lee, Integrative Therapist, Teacher, Writer