Raise the bar: Holding space

On the instructor side you can’t know what is really going to be challenging for the people in front of you. Ideally everyone in the room would be very self aware and fully embodied and could be trusted to get what they needed out of any class no matter what. We know that is not normally the case for most people and we want to avoid making blanket assumptions about the people in our room. When we are looking to raise the bar for both ourselves and our students we have to start somewhere...