You Think, You Know

You think you know your shizz, but wait until you meet Alan and Nancy. 

Having been a teacher, a coach, an attorney and in general a big fan of introspection and self actualization, I was sure I was gonna ace my Ethics and Communications class. I had plenty of direct experience with the gains available both personally and professionally from knowing thyself and knowing how to communicate effectively with others.

And yet, this class kicked my ass. Not because there were too many hard or difficult concepts, nor were the tests outrageous or containing unexpected challenges. Likewise, the class exercises, while pushing us to test and understand our own boundaries, didn’t over push.

No, the real reason this course taught me, and my classmates, so much was because both professors paid personal attention to the individual cognitive and developmental needs of their diverse students. Then skillfully wove the separate threads bringing us all to massage school into one very real, very meaningful fabric of class.

Every time a strength would let me sidestep or easily handle the lesson’s exercise, my teacher customized it to put me square back squirming with my own communication challenges. Every time a blind spot would leave one of us exposed, our mentor took care to give hints or help so that our investment in learning stayed constant.

And thus, we constantly learned.

Don’t get me wrong, I had no idea this was going on at the time, but as my preconceived notions fell one by one over the ten weeks, I realized something special was happening.

Not only was I learning how to manifest my own personal code of ethics, goals and focused intentions, but I also learned how to own, lovingly discuss and defend those when necessary.

I’ve been trained by a lot of talented folks for a lot of things, but I must say, I’ve never had such a personal revolution instigated by just one course.

Alan and Nancy riding like Paul Revere through their student’s colonies, dreams of being bodywork professionals resolving into a revolutionary reality, expertly facilitated, yet fully self-designed.

You think, you know. It sounds simple.

But therein lies the rub.

Comments

[Dan]

I agree, I think there is a code for everything in life, crack the code :)