What you have learned in 60 days of teaching practice
What you have learned in 60 days of teaching practice
Why a review brings more than new material
After a phase of intensive teaching practice, the temptation is great to plan the next thing immediately: the next seminar, the next group, the next topic. But a good teacher does not grow only through new content. He grows through honest review.
What have you truly learned as a teacher in recent weeks? Not theoretically, but in encounters, in groups, in uncertainties, in successful and unsuccessful moments. This question leads deeper than any new method.
What you should pay attention to in such a review
Do not look only at what went well. Also ask:
- Where was I too fast? - Where did I explain too much? - When did I truly feel the group? - Where did I become inwardly tight? - Which questions from students helped me move forward myself? - Which topics do I teach more clearly than before?
A review only becomes fruitful when you do not merely confirm yourself, but also allow yourself to be corrected.
The role of Reiki in reflection
Cho Ku Rei can help to gather your mind before you look at your teaching practice. Without gathering, review quickly becomes either self-criticism or self-congratulation. With gathering, it becomes more precise.
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is especially fitting in this context. It connects across space and time. If you want inwardly to bring together several teaching days, seminars or student processes, this symbol helps you view the development as an arc and not merely as loose individual events.
Dai Ko Myo can support you at the master level when you ask the deeper question: Where does my teaching already correspond to my inner truth - and where not quite yet?
Examples of important insights
Perhaps you recognise: That your best moments were not where you knew the most, but where you were the calmest.
Perhaps you notice: That groups do not gain more depth when you talk more, but when you lead more clearly and leave more space.
Or you see: That students often do not get stuck on complicated themes, but on the simple things they can truly bring into everyday life.
Such insights make you a better teacher than any mere abundance of material.
What review has to do with humility
An old Reiki master does not look only at his successful lessons. He also remembers uncertainties, mistakes and moments in which he only later understood what would actually have been needed. This is exactly what keeps teaching alive.
Humility here does not mean making yourself small. It means remaining able to learn. A teacher who no longer questions himself easily becomes rigid.
The deeper teaching
Your path as a teacher does not become rounded through perfection, but through conscious maturation. A good review shows you what already carries, what may still grow and what quality has arisen within you yourself through your teaching practice.
If you do this review honestly, not only does your teaching become better. Your inner attitude as a teacher also becomes clearer and calmer.
How you gain concrete steps from looking back
A good review does not end with insight. It leads to small, clear corrections. Perhaps in future you want to explain less and let people practise more. Perhaps you notice that the time for sensing afterwards following meditation or treatment was too short. Perhaps you recognise that your greatest strength lies in examples and not in theory.
Such corrections do not have to be large in order to become effective. An old Reiki master often prefers to change a tone, an order or an emphasis rather than constantly reinventing the whole class.
Why teaching practice always remains self-practice too
Whoever teaches is also trained further. Every group shows something, every question opens something, every difficulty corrects something. If you take this seriously, the teacher's path does not become a role, but a continuing form of inner work.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
What you have learned in 60 days of teaching practice
Why a review brings more than new material
After a phase of intensive teaching practice, the temptation is great to plan the next thing immediately: the next seminar, the next group, the next topic. But a good teacher does not grow only through new content. He grows through honest review.
What have you truly learned as a teacher in recent weeks? Not theoretically, but in encounters, in groups, in uncertainties, in successful and unsuccessful moments. This question leads deeper than any new method.
What you should pay attention to in such a review
Do not look only at what went well. Also ask:
- Where was I too fast? - Where did I explain too much? - When did I truly feel the group? - Where did I become inwardly tight? - Which questions from students helped me move forward myself? - Which topics do I teach more clearly than before?
A review only becomes fruitful when you do not merely confirm yourself, but also allow yourself to be corrected.
The role of Reiki in reflection
Cho Ku Rei can help to gather your mind before you look at your teaching practice. Without gathering, review quickly becomes either self-criticism or self-congratulation. With gathering, it becomes more precise.
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is especially fitting in this context. It connects across space and time. If you want inwardly to bring together several teaching days, seminars or student processes, this symbol helps you view the development as an arc and not merely as loose individual events.
Dai Ko Myo can support you at the master level when you ask the deeper question: Where does my teaching already correspond to my inner truth - and where not quite yet?
Examples of important insights
Perhaps you recognise: That your best moments were not where you knew the most, but where you were the calmest.
Perhaps you notice: That groups do not gain more depth when you talk more, but when you lead more clearly and leave more space.
Or you see: That students often do not get stuck on complicated themes, but on the simple things they can truly bring into everyday life.
Such insights make you a better teacher than any mere abundance of material.
What review has to do with humility
An old Reiki master does not look only at his successful lessons. He also remembers uncertainties, mistakes and moments in which he only later understood what would actually have been needed. This is exactly what keeps teaching alive.
Humility here does not mean making yourself small. It means remaining able to learn. A teacher who no longer questions himself easily becomes rigid.
The deeper teaching
Your path as a teacher does not become rounded through perfection, but through conscious maturation. A good review shows you what already carries, what may still grow and what quality has arisen within you yourself through your teaching practice.
If you do this review honestly, not only does your teaching become better. Your inner attitude as a teacher also becomes clearer and calmer.
How you gain concrete steps from looking back
A good review does not end with insight. It leads to small, clear corrections. Perhaps in future you want to explain less and let people practise more. Perhaps you notice that the time for sensing afterwards following meditation or treatment was too short. Perhaps you recognise that your greatest strength lies in examples and not in theory.
Such corrections do not have to be large in order to become effective. An old Reiki master often prefers to change a tone, an order or an emphasis rather than constantly reinventing the whole class.
Why teaching practice always remains self-practice too
Whoever teaches is also trained further. Every group shows something, every question opens something, every difficulty corrects something. If you take this seriously, the teacher's path does not become a role, but a continuing form of inner work.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
What you have learned in 60 days of teaching practice
Why a review brings more than new material
After a phase of intensive teaching practice, the temptation is great to plan the next thing immediately: the next seminar, the next group, the next topic. But a good teacher does not grow only through new content. He grows through honest review.
What have you truly learned as a teacher in recent weeks? Not theoretically, but in encounters, in groups, in uncertainties, in successful and unsuccessful moments. This question leads deeper than any new method.
What you should pay attention to in such a review
Do not look only at what went well. Also ask:
- Where was I too fast? - Where did I explain too much? - When did I truly feel the group? - Where did I become inwardly tight? - Which questions from students helped me move forward myself? - Which topics do I teach more clearly than before?
A review only becomes fruitful when you do not merely confirm yourself, but also allow yourself to be corrected.
The role of Reiki in reflection
Cho Ku Rei can help to gather your mind before you look at your teaching practice. Without gathering, review quickly becomes either self-criticism or self-congratulation. With gathering, it becomes more precise.
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is especially fitting in this context. It connects across space and time. If you want inwardly to bring together several teaching days, seminars or student processes, this symbol helps you view the development as an arc and not merely as loose individual events.
Dai Ko Myo can support you at the master level when you ask the deeper question: Where does my teaching already correspond to my inner truth - and where not quite yet?
Examples of important insights
Perhaps you recognise: That your best moments were not where you knew the most, but where you were the calmest.
Perhaps you notice: That groups do not gain more depth when you talk more, but when you lead more clearly and leave more space.
Or you see: That students often do not get stuck on complicated themes, but on the simple things they can truly bring into everyday life.
Such insights make you a better teacher than any mere abundance of material.
What review has to do with humility
An old Reiki master does not look only at his successful lessons. He also remembers uncertainties, mistakes and moments in which he only later understood what would actually have been needed. This is exactly what keeps teaching alive.
Humility here does not mean making yourself small. It means remaining able to learn. A teacher who no longer questions himself easily becomes rigid.
The deeper teaching
Your path as a teacher does not become rounded through perfection, but through conscious maturation. A good review shows you what already carries, what may still grow and what quality has arisen within you yourself through your teaching practice.
If you do this review honestly, not only does your teaching become better. Your inner attitude as a teacher also becomes clearer and calmer.
How you gain concrete steps from looking back
A good review does not end with insight. It leads to small, clear corrections. Perhaps in future you want to explain less and let people practise more. Perhaps you notice that the time for sensing afterwards following meditation or treatment was too short. Perhaps you recognise that your greatest strength lies in examples and not in theory.
Such corrections do not have to be large in order to become effective. An old Reiki master often prefers to change a tone, an order or an emphasis rather than constantly reinventing the whole class.
Why teaching practice always remains self-practice too
Whoever teaches is also trained further. Every group shows something, every question opens something, every difficulty corrects something. If you take this seriously, the teacher's path does not become a role, but a continuing form of inner work.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
Once you are signed up, single days become a path: your progress is saved, your journal is kept, and the attunement days open at the right time.