You will not be instructed into becoming a teacher. You will be accompanied through a year of practice, a year of enquiry, a year of seasons and of community, toward the teacher you already are.
This training recognises that the pedagogical model most of us grew up with, where one person stands at the front of a room and pours information into the people sitting before them, produces a particular kind of student. One who might be good at storing information but poor at trusting their own experience. This training has developed from reflection and connection to what might better serve the world now. Learning in community, in the presence of an experienced guide rather than an authority, is an older and more effective model. You will learn much from your fellow student-teachers and from the world around you.
Your inner authority is the curriculum here. Your senses are the text. You will be asked, consistently and gently, to notice what you actually feel rather than what you think you should feel, in your body, in your practice, and in your teaching. You will be asked to question, to reflect, and to bring your own experience into the room as primary evidence. You will be held to account not by grades or assessments in the conventional sense, but by the quality of your own attention and the depth of your own enquiry.
On homework
The homework for this training will sometimes look like reading and writing. It will also sometimes look like going outside in the rain, or sitting with a tree for twenty minutes, or cooking a meal from what the season offers, or simply noticing how the quality of your breath changes as October becomes November. All of it is part of the learning.
