Field Guide
The Kinwise Field Guide is your reflective starting point for understanding and utilizing AI in human-centered ways. As AI reshapes how we work and connect, developing a mindful approach is essential, both for personal alignment and for enabling teams and organizations to thrive ethically and effectively. In Chapter 1, you'll begin slowly exploring what AI can (and can't) do, and how to approach it with presence, purpose, and care. The full guide includes five chapters covering foundational presence, practical exploration, ethical considerations, and pathways to impactful integration for individuals and teams.
Start with Chapter 1. To continue your journey and save your work, join the Kinwise Collective.
Please note: full Field Guide available on July 1 in the Kinwise Collective.
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Chapter 1: Begin with Presence
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Lesson 1: Why We Begin Slowly
Reconnect with what matters before you use a tool. In this chapter, you'll slow down, reflect, and define what you truly want to gain from AI.
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Lesson 2: The Human Before the Tool
Center your values, experience, and lived context before generating anything. This chapter helps you hold the line on what matters most.
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Lesson 3: Set Your Intention
AI responds to how you show up. Here, you’ll explore how your mindset, energy, and goals shape your outcomes—and why clarity matters more than speed.
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About your Instructor
Lydia Kumar is an educator, strategist, and founder of Kinwise. With a background in instructional leadership, organizational design, and human-centered learning, Lydia created the Kinwise Field Guide to help people use AI to move with more clarity, connection, and care.
She’s spent her career supporting school systems, small businesses, and teams as they navigate change, lead with intention, and make complex work more sustainable. Lydia brings a rare blend of deep listening, reflective practice, and practical strategy to every session she leads.
She is pursuing an Executive MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and lives in North Carolina, where she’s happiest in meaningful conversation, hiking in forest trails, and spending time in community.
