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Abstract: The following KB articules discribes a series of good and no so good practices aim the help Samma Kaurna teachers and facilitators to aligned with a common style of teaching as well as brining awarness to good and no so good practices when facilitating or teaching class.

Author: Ishi

Audience: Samma Karuna teachers and facilitators

Version: 1.0 (beta, work in progress), March 2022

Last modified: March 2022

Good practices

  • Having a leader when working in groups either for the whole class or per exercise.
  • Provide a intro talk to “Sell” to your student the practice you are going to facilitate. A possible format would be <the cause><the issue that the cause generates><the technique, how it work><how this technique can solve the issue/cause><other benefits>
  • Having a list of topics to cover during a theory class
  • Start a new class with a review of the topics that have been covered on the previous class
  • Starting a class with a short meditation (up to 5 minutes)
  • Provide feedback to other members the team following the Samma Karuna guidelines
  • Placing love and connexion over the outcome of the class

No so good practices

  • Working on yourself during class instead of demoing.
  • Loose awareness of what is happening in the group.
  • Mixing fire with air energy. It is dangerous if too much fire/air energy flows to the head.
  • Not talking from your experience but talking from what you read or someone else told you.
  • Not being in a position of authority when I facilitate
  • Allowing a student that is not grounded to leave the hall
  • Making a class that you like without considering who are your students and what they need
  • Announcing the contraindications of a practise after the benefits
  • Talking negatively about other teachers or the school (bringing your personal issues) during class
  • Providing feedback to students that they cannot use to learn and do better in the future
    • Example: Your aura is full of negativity, you are just in your ego
  • Using essential oils or other smells with new students
    • Preventing new students to think we are inducing substances on them to facilitate the experience in class.
  • Getting angry with a student, losing your balance and therefore your possibility to hold space for him and others.
  • During a different class than the one announced in the schedule/calendar
  • Inducing negative experience during trance state
  • Touching a student without permission
  • Contradict what a member of your teams said during class

Issues & emergencies

  • Student having a panic attack
  • A student starting to teach during your class
  • A student crying during class
  • Students leaving and not having enough people to do the class
  • A student getting physically hurt during class
  • A student making different exercises of the ones instructed
  • Being triggered by students complains
  • Students talking on behalf of whole group
  • A student fainting in class

Ethics

  • Looking for my self-worth on being a facilitator and helping others
  • Promote your workshop/activity outside the school within Samma Karuna students without previous authorization
  • Dismissing a student during a class because of his rase, way of thinking, colour.
  • Promoting your workshop during or immediately after a trance state
  • Approaching students to discuss a negative feedback they gave you

ART OF TEACHING TANTRA

Audio recording by Ishi 1/1 (April 2022): Download

Subjects covered in the audio:

  • Differences between facilitating Tantra to individual students or couples in comparison with groups.
  • Acknowledging your limits when facilitating Tantra
  • How to hold space from a place of loving presence.
  • Facilitating from a place of self-experience
  • Basics on Ethics when working with students that trigger me or I feel sexually attached to.
  • About having a leader when working in groups as good practice
  • Good practices when facilitating lectures
  • Placing love over success or doing the class right when facilitating, leaving the result to existence.
  • How to deal with students complains
  • The art of no rushing as foundational for Tantra practice.
  • Precautions when mixing fire with air energy during Tantra practice and counter-part safety techniques.
  • Good and no so good practices when facilitating Tantra using the archetypes.

ART OF TEACHING BREATHWORK

Audio recording by Ishi 1/1 (April 2022): Download

Subjects covered in the audio:

  • Difference between facilitating one to one sessions in comparison with groups.
  • How different types of music induce different experiences to the students.
  • Precautions about forcing exhalation during circular breath practice.
  • How to adapt a breathwork session to the different stages of opening up, healing and awakening.
  • About integration in a breathwork session.
  • Difference between divine presence and tripping.
  • About trance induction during a session.
  • About self-breathwork practice.
  • About facilitating breathwork to people with mental issues.
  • Review of some balancing and emergency techniques

Exam questions:

You meet a student during a private session and feel sexually attacted to her/him during the session: (mark all that are correct)

a) I invite the student for dinner after the session but I let her/him know that our conextion won’t be of student-teacher any more.
b) I wait a few session more until Im sure about my feelings and then I invite this person for dinner providing I won’t meet her/him again as student-facilitator.
c) I rather wont work with this person again if I feel a strong emotional conextion. (correct)
d) I would need to wait for at least 4 weeks without offering her/him private sessions before approching this person to express my feelings and invites. (correct)

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