1

What are one or two habits that arise when you feel vulnerable, not confident, maybe even powerless in your teaching role? How do those habits influence your ability to connect with students?

2

Meditation teaching is not regulated. Who would you feel comfortable in your current role to be responsible to? Answerable and accountable? (Not just yourself. Could be one person, a therapist, a group of people, peers, in the sangha or outside…)

3

What is an ethical concern you are dealing with now? What is on your heart as you enter this module? This can be part of your teaching, or more generally in your life.

4

Power plays out differently in the roles and positions that we hold. We may be able to see something more about our relationship to power by looking at the other roles we have as a parent, partner, eldest child, professional… Choose a role and consider the kind of power you hold in that role.

5

Disillusionment and disenchantment is a teaching on the Buddhist path. Have you heard this teaching before? If so, how has this teaching affected your personal practice? If you have not heard this teaching, do you have a sense of disillusionment or disenchantment with meditation practice, teaching, or your sangha?

6

We all have tendencies to put what we don’t like about ourselves on to other people. This can also happen inadvertently when we are teaching. Describe a situation that this has happened for you recently, or in the past with students, peers, or other teachers.

7

Can you remember your first encounter with a path or your calling to be a teacher or your interest in teaching meditation? Did Buddhism/meditation save your life? Change your life significantly?

8

A capacity to be self-honest seems crucial for a teacher to be aware of their own limitations and strengths in teaching. What practices have you found to be the most beneficial in cultivating and maintaining self-honesty?

9

What kinds of self-care do you genuinely love to do? See clear benefit from? How does it impact your ability to work well and ethically? What do you consider non-negotiable, although others may consider it a luxury, for your self care?