Perspective

During seasons of life, quite often different and recurring themes come up. A message, an idea, a whisper in the back of your mind. It's like the 'clunk clunk clunk' of lock tumblers falling into place. I like to think that each time you hear the idea, you become more desensitised until your mind and heart are ready to open and receive the message.

For me, the current theme I'm being forced to explore is perspective. My personality 'type' is ENTP - the visionary, the innovator, the debater. I get a lot of energy working through problems with others, offering alternative perspectives, and sometimes helping by saying something that sparks others to connect dots that hadn't quite been close enough yet. Something that I've been finding myself mulling over recently is challenging others on their notions of what things are. From an education lens we can get caught up in 'not having enough time' for teaching because of the 'other stuff'. Wanting to 'get to teaching'. My constant challenge in my mind when I hear this is - What IS teaching? What IS learning? Is teaching taking a small group and exploring ideas with them, getting them to immerse themselves in problems and stories, while guiding them to pre-determined learning outcomes?

Is it setting individual or group tasks without teacher input?

Is it both?

Or none?

I believe it is so important to practise challenging our self-limiting beliefs. To think why am I thinking this? Why is it causing so much tension? Is this just a constraint or an ideal that I've placed on myself?

Do I need to step back, step out, step up, and adjust my perspective?

Usually when these things visit me several times using others as a vehicle, it's a sure sign that I need to turn inward. What is happening in my life at the moment that I need to reframe? Is there something I'm holding on to that is my truth and not the truth?

Now it's time to sit with myself for a bit.