| karuna vihar: training |
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- Curiosity. Instilling a sense of wonder in our staff is the first step in the training process. Helping people to look at what is and ask: “why?” What makes this child act this way? What if I tried this? What if I did that? Once the mind is engaged, once a person really comes to a problem or a question with all her senses active and alert, anything is possible. By asking the questions again and again, and expecting answers every time, we stretch ourselves beyond the mundane and the ordinary. As William Carlos Williams put it, we “grip down and begin to awaken”.
- Appreciation. It’s not always easy to try new things. It’s not always easy to stay awake. We value what our staff do and we make sure they know it. We try to notice the small things and point them out – general praise is meaningless. It’s all in the details.
- Courage. Sometimes we get it wrong. Sometimes the solution we’ve come up with just doesn’t work. We encourage ourselves and our staff to try again. Failure is only failure if we don’t use it to grow.
- Perseverance. Training never ends. There is no such thing as a “fully trained” teacher or therapist or writer or administrator. We are all constantly searching and growing and developing. We keep at it. We read, we travel, we discuss, we learn.
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