http://guruhandbook.com/2007/04/19/pain-and-damage/ A Seeker’s Guide to Teaching Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:09:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://guruhandbook.com/2007/04/19/pain-and-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-77 When the Student Comes Apart » The Guru’s Handbook Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:28:40 +0000 http://www.guruhandbook.com/?p=70#comment-77 [...] In Pain and Damage I discussed how important it is to be able to see pain in your student as a potential warning of damage to come. I discouraged teachers from deliberately causing or allowing damage, because damaging a student is very complicated and highly vulnerable to abuse and mistake. I was then questioned by teachers who, in the course of deep teaching, have had students who experience emotional and psychological changes that cause them to feel they have been taken apart, damaged, even destroyed. This is worth more discussion. [...] [...] In Pain and Damage I discussed how important it is to be able to see pain in your student as a potential warning of damage to come. I discouraged teachers from deliberately causing or allowing damage, because damaging a student is very complicated and highly vulnerable to abuse and mistake. I was then questioned by teachers who, in the course of deep teaching, have had students who experience emotional and psychological changes that cause them to feel they have been taken apart, damaged, even destroyed. This is worth more discussion. [...]

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