Start With Presence: A Mindful AI Micro-Course
This micro-course is your reflective starting point for using AI in a more mindful, human-centered way. In three short lessons, you’ll explore the limitations of AI, and how to approach it with presence, purpose, and care. You’ll walk away clearer about what you want from AI and how to use it in a way that honors your values. Designed as the opening chapter of a larger Kinwise Field Guide series, this course is ideal for anyone ready to reset their relationship with AI tools.
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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.
