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Widen the Frame: A Field Guide to Context, Conditions & Choice, First Edition, 2026, Digital Workbook (downloadable content)
WIDEN THE FRAME: A Field Guide to Context, Conditions & Choice
First Digital Edition, 2026
What if the question isn’t only “Why am I like this?” — but “What else is happening here?”
Widen the Frame is a self-guided digital field guide for people who want to understand difficult patterns, decisions, relationships, and recurring experiences without reducing everything to personal failure.
We are often encouraged to look inward first:
Why do I keep doing this?
Why can’t I change?
Why am I struggling with this?
Sometimes those questions are useful.
Sometimes the frame is too small.
Human behaviour does not happen in isolation. Our responses are shaped by relationships, expectations, power, resources, responsibilities, environments, practical constraints, consequences, and the conditions we are navigating.
A choice can be technically available and still be costly.
A pattern can involve personal responsibility and still be shaped by something larger.
A response can make sense in context and still be something you want to change.
Widen the Frame helps you investigate the whole picture.
Through five structured movements
NOTICE → LOCATE → FUNCTION → CONDITIONS → EXPERIMENT
you’ll learn to look more carefully at what is happening, where the issue is operating, what changes when a response occurs, what conditions may be sustaining it, and what movement is realistically available from where you stand.
Along the way, you’ll explore questions such as:
What do I actually know, and what am I interpreting?
Where does this issue live … personally, relationally, organizationally, culturally, materially, systemically, or across several levels at once?
What changes when I respond this way?
What conditions make another response easier, harder, safer, or more costly?
What is mine to understand, influence, choose, negotiate, prepare for, or repair?
What is not mine to carry alone?
What is realistically available to me now?
This is not about finding one perfect explanation for who you are.
It is about building a more accurate map.
More than a workbook
Widen the Frame is designed to become a reusable way of thinking.
You can return to the framework whenever you are facing a recurring pattern, difficult decision, confusing relationship dynamic, workplace situation, boundary question, competing responsibility, or circumstance that feels much simpler on paper than it does in real life.
The workbook includes guided inquiry, reflective exercises, a worked example, responsibility and agency mapping, a friction check, integration pages, and reusable tools for applying the framework beyond your first read-through.
The goal is not endless self-analysis.
It is greater clarity about:
what is happening, what is influencing it, what belongs to you, and what becomes possible from here.
Notice carefully. Widen the frame. Choose deliberately.
Your download
Your purchase is delivered as one ZIP file containing multiple formats, so you can use the edition that works best for you.
Visual + Print Edition — PDF
The complete designed field-guide experience, including botanical elements, handwritten-style Field Notes, margin observations, and print-friendly reflection pages. Best for viewing, printing, and writing by hand.
Accessible Digital Edition — DOCX
A simplified digital edition designed to support screen readers, keyboard navigation, text enlargement, custom display settings, and typing directly into the workbook. Meaningful Field Notes and margin observations from the visual edition are included as regular text so the content does not depend on visual design.
Accessible Digital Edition — PDF
A simplified PDF version with selectable text and a more linear reading experience for readers who prefer PDF.
Start Here — Choosing Your Edition
A short guide explaining the different formats and helping you choose the version that best fits how you want to use the workbook.
You are welcome to move between editions. You might read from one, write in another, or use different formats at different times.
A note about accessibility
The accessible editions have been designed to support a wider range of reading, navigation, and digital-completion needs. Accessibility needs vary, however, and no single format works equally well for everyone.
Please note
Widen the Frame is a digital educational and self-reflection resource for personal development and informational purposes only.
It is not psychotherapy, counselling, medical or mental-health treatment, diagnosis, crisis support, legal advice, financial advice, or a substitute for qualified professional services. It does not determine the cause or meaning of your experiences, behaviours, emotions, relationships, or bodily responses, and no particular outcome is promised or guaranteed.
Please use your own judgment, engage at your own pace, and seek appropriate professional, specialized, or emergency support when needed.
Digital product only. No physical item will be shipped.
All sales are final and non-refundable except where otherwise required by applicable law. If you experience a technical issue, corrupted file, duplicate charge, or order error, please contact camillesomatics@gmail.com.
For individual personal use only. This product may not be reproduced, distributed, resold, shared, republished, or provided for use with clients, groups, students, employees, workshops, classes, or organizations without prior permission or an applicable licence.
First Edition, 2026
© 2026 Camille MacRae. All rights reserved
WIDEN THE FRAME: A Field Guide to Context, Conditions & Choice
First Digital Edition, 2026
What if the question isn’t only “Why am I like this?” — but “What else is happening here?”
Widen the Frame is a self-guided digital field guide for people who want to understand difficult patterns, decisions, relationships, and recurring experiences without reducing everything to personal failure.
We are often encouraged to look inward first:
Why do I keep doing this?
Why can’t I change?
Why am I struggling with this?
Sometimes those questions are useful.
Sometimes the frame is too small.
Human behaviour does not happen in isolation. Our responses are shaped by relationships, expectations, power, resources, responsibilities, environments, practical constraints, consequences, and the conditions we are navigating.
A choice can be technically available and still be costly.
A pattern can involve personal responsibility and still be shaped by something larger.
A response can make sense in context and still be something you want to change.
Widen the Frame helps you investigate the whole picture.
Through five structured movements
NOTICE → LOCATE → FUNCTION → CONDITIONS → EXPERIMENT
you’ll learn to look more carefully at what is happening, where the issue is operating, what changes when a response occurs, what conditions may be sustaining it, and what movement is realistically available from where you stand.
Along the way, you’ll explore questions such as:
What do I actually know, and what am I interpreting?
Where does this issue live … personally, relationally, organizationally, culturally, materially, systemically, or across several levels at once?
What changes when I respond this way?
What conditions make another response easier, harder, safer, or more costly?
What is mine to understand, influence, choose, negotiate, prepare for, or repair?
What is not mine to carry alone?
What is realistically available to me now?
This is not about finding one perfect explanation for who you are.
It is about building a more accurate map.
More than a workbook
Widen the Frame is designed to become a reusable way of thinking.
You can return to the framework whenever you are facing a recurring pattern, difficult decision, confusing relationship dynamic, workplace situation, boundary question, competing responsibility, or circumstance that feels much simpler on paper than it does in real life.
The workbook includes guided inquiry, reflective exercises, a worked example, responsibility and agency mapping, a friction check, integration pages, and reusable tools for applying the framework beyond your first read-through.
The goal is not endless self-analysis.
It is greater clarity about:
what is happening, what is influencing it, what belongs to you, and what becomes possible from here.
Notice carefully. Widen the frame. Choose deliberately.
Your download
Your purchase is delivered as one ZIP file containing multiple formats, so you can use the edition that works best for you.
Visual + Print Edition — PDF
The complete designed field-guide experience, including botanical elements, handwritten-style Field Notes, margin observations, and print-friendly reflection pages. Best for viewing, printing, and writing by hand.
Accessible Digital Edition — DOCX
A simplified digital edition designed to support screen readers, keyboard navigation, text enlargement, custom display settings, and typing directly into the workbook. Meaningful Field Notes and margin observations from the visual edition are included as regular text so the content does not depend on visual design.
Accessible Digital Edition — PDF
A simplified PDF version with selectable text and a more linear reading experience for readers who prefer PDF.
Start Here — Choosing Your Edition
A short guide explaining the different formats and helping you choose the version that best fits how you want to use the workbook.
You are welcome to move between editions. You might read from one, write in another, or use different formats at different times.
A note about accessibility
The accessible editions have been designed to support a wider range of reading, navigation, and digital-completion needs. Accessibility needs vary, however, and no single format works equally well for everyone.
Please note
Widen the Frame is a digital educational and self-reflection resource for personal development and informational purposes only.
It is not psychotherapy, counselling, medical or mental-health treatment, diagnosis, crisis support, legal advice, financial advice, or a substitute for qualified professional services. It does not determine the cause or meaning of your experiences, behaviours, emotions, relationships, or bodily responses, and no particular outcome is promised or guaranteed.
Please use your own judgment, engage at your own pace, and seek appropriate professional, specialized, or emergency support when needed.
Digital product only. No physical item will be shipped.
All sales are final and non-refundable except where otherwise required by applicable law. If you experience a technical issue, corrupted file, duplicate charge, or order error, please contact camillesomatics@gmail.com.
For individual personal use only. This product may not be reproduced, distributed, resold, shared, republished, or provided for use with clients, groups, students, employees, workshops, classes, or organizations without prior permission or an applicable licence.
First Edition, 2026
© 2026 Camille MacRae. All rights reserved