People go to school and they graduate.
Teachers teach and sometimes pupils learn.
Maybe the pupil learned only part of what the teachers wanted to teach them. For example they may have learned enough maths to get by and then as life developed they get or work out what else they need to know.
You can never be sure what you teach is what they learn as that is their experience. You are not there to sort the whole of the rest of their lives. We all exist in time and the future and their future needs will solved by them and applying what skills they have.
Be careful not to end gain and want more than this:
- I feel better – yes
- I feel lighter – yes
- I am clearer in thought – yes
- I can do that better – yes
Do you see that they get out of it what they get out of it, it is everything and nothing all at once.
What is the purpose of education, in its broadest and narrowest sense be it Somatics, school or sport?
An answer and one i favour is not performance per se, or even qualifications, it is merely the desire to learn and be interested. School cannot teach everything, but it can give you skills and set you off in a direction.
In the case of sport there is usually only one winner, so what of the rest, have they wasted their time? Or is their value in playing and competiting even outside the rostrum? Is the medal the only reward or can value be had from mastery and play?
In the case of Somatics, if they are in pain, or immobile help them with that and let them be on their way, on their way to be free. Let them find mastery in the rest of their lives and not expect it within the sessions. Our education doesn’t finish with graduation and neither in the confines of a movement session.
Things moving freely.
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