Faciliation vs Teaching

Facilitation is different from teaching, facilitation is about listening and tracking what is being expressed and helping ideas and people find connections and ways to build and influence each other positively. Teaching is about passing on knowledge, wisdom and information, going first and being an example and a guide.  Teaching is beautiful, it involves responsibility and care, teachers ensure that our learning is not for ourselves alone, and maintain the historical memory of everything. I am a facilitator. I can’t really teach anything,  I have some knowledge about the body and some tools that create healing feedback loops, but I don’t know much of anything. I know where the well is.  I know what the well can do and I can lead people to the well.  This well is the well of grief and the well of connection to the earth and the place where you can cleanse yourself and drink the nectar of collective tears.  I catch the tears in my skirt and I cry too and I sit with those who travel to the well as they do what must be done.  I ask  questions, I am fully present, I adopt their world view and sit with them compassionately, I sometimes allow the space between us to become a laboratory or space to feel. I like to hold people in the shape of a circle because then they are not alone or even there just for themselves, this shape is a kind of teacher. Being a circle facilitator means holding the space for what can only emerge within the context of the third body of that collective.  Its interesting and curious to come to understand what that co-intelligence is.  What it wants to show or say or express. The thing about circles is that they hold us together and in relationship to one another, they provide openness and containment. 

HK