I am trying to make “embodied teaching” meaningful to my own experience... and so have come up with a phrase that resonates for me, that I can easily remember and hopefully apply to my interactions. As I grow I am sure the phrase will change: “Embodied teaching is the co-creation of mindful awareness that embraces both student and teacher in the present moment.

Since starting my meditation journey and particularly with UM, creating my own path and carving out my own unique meditation experience, I have grown so much, I want to teach this to others, especially at work. So thank you so much for stating what I want to do, but with adults. I am on a committee, at work, where we are looking at cultivating employee skills and of course, at the top of the list: emotional intelligence (agility, critical thinking, decision making, etc) but again, we are trapped at "yes, we need this, but how?"Our work is very stressful (Healthcare IT). Clients are high demanding, very siloed work, lots of red tape and the stress levels with covid are through the roof, and my employer wants an emotionally intelligent and agile workforce.

I want to help; how do I help? How do I take this to a broader audience like you are with teachers (in the traditional educational setting)? Whatever the answers are, this was extremely helpful for me personally and many concepts are transferable to adults in the professional setting. I'd love to help teachers become skillful with CCE. If I can do it for them, I can do it for anyone. I'd want to help other high stress employment situations too (any healthcare worker, police, fire, teachers. I'd love to go to prison systems and teach this there - so many ways to help and serve and teach people how to self regulate better. I can't thank you enough for this class. Really opened my eyes to how to infuse vs 'direct'. Thanks again!