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From: maalberse [mailto:maalberse_at_8ZGUNGVTiQnYwXLghbDJZH317B6mrlr8v9HKAmoLZHk89ZOnxZ2HMtJJRRRWAoKcR5.yahoo.invalid]
Sent: 19 May 2003 16:18
To: meridiantherapy_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MET] Teacher Trauma
Some of my worst nightmares are about stuff at school, still...
And thinking about this now, what also strikes me how it didn't even
occur to me to talk about those events with my parents. And with my
friends we didn't talk about how much it had hurt, but on what a SOB
some of the teachers were. As my dreams testify, that's not nearly
enough for healing...
Maarten
Hi Maarten,
I'm glad you picked that one up.
If I make the equivalency with sexual child abuse, it is actually
interesting to muse just how helpful adult attempts at reclaiming
creativity, intelligence, systemic thinking, full deep level learning
and even any change that has a learning aspect can possibly be with
methods such as techniques and belief changes, affirmations and such.
Certainly, sex abuse survivors don't as a rule turn into purring sex
kittens by reading a book or attending a few trainings, but need
serious healing on the topic.
Wonder what the equivalency of the purring learning kitten would be
if such things were really resolved and healed entirely, with the
resulting Even Flow?
Can we then revisit my original ideas on The Energy Of Learning?
That would be neat ...
Meantime, anyone who would like to share some school trauma
publicly, come out of the closet as it were or just write it down just
like some of the other kinds of abuse survivors find so very helpful,
by all means!
I'm serious here guys.
You might have heard it said that "all change is learning",
"knowledge is power" and other formative statements to that effect.
Genius and creativity and all of that, applied to one's own life?
For some amongst us, *being able to learn and grow* might just be
the ticket out of the hamster wheel - and I really do have the notion
that "learning trauma" (they may have been sunday school priests, the
drill instructor or the sword master in the private lessons, there's
many versions of "Teachers"!) might be a great deal more important
than we have previously given credit to.
Silvia
This is on MET and ET2, btw.
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From: StarFields
To: ET2 ; MET
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject: [MET] Teacher Trauma
Dear all,
I am involved with a project at the moment and during the course
of
this, the topic of "trauma inflicted on children by teachers"
arrived.
I was specifically there to NOT talk shop and had sworn to myself
to
leave my pointy therapist's hat firmly at home. When I heard
someone's
story, I couldn't help myself but make a small comment in the PS
that
although the person themselves might not need healing (!!), the
small
child who was so terribly hurt by the incident probably still did.
I was not prepared for the flood of mail which followed.
This is not a therapy related project, no-one else there is a
therapist, these are all kinds of people from all walks of life
age
16 - 70 and I just really couldn't believe the amount of "stuff"
about
teacher experiences came out, pouring out, just like that.
I would guess that 50% or more of the group related traumatic
incidents with teachers. I'd classify half of it as true trauma
and
the rest as extremely strong negative formative experiences. The
charges on it, too - whoa.
In the light of this, and of how common it was (and is for the
ones
still at school) AND what repercussions this has had over the
lives of
these people once they came out of the closet just like sex abuse
survivors (I was truly shocked at the similarities in structure!)
I
would draw your personal attention to the topic of "teacher abuse"
or
"teacher induced trauma".
Clearly not everyone has it but those who do and have never
thought of
it in terms of something that really does need healing and
accounts
for all sorts of previously mysterious/bizarre/unexplained
behaviours,
might like to revisit those memories and do something about it now
that it's come up.
The learning scenario has *a great great deal* to do with self
actualisation; those who seek it might find some very interesting
clues, explanations and more importantly, resolutions for the sake
of
a quick trip down memory lane to the so called "best years of your
life".
SF
PS: Here's just one of the many stories to get you in the mood.
>>>>> I had this English teacher from the age of about 12 to 14, I
will never forget that woman. I still hear comments she made in
my
head sometimes -
she must have really traumatised me or something.
Once I went for an audition for the school play and me and another
girl were going for the same role. The other girl got up and had
memorised her part and just rattled it off with no intonation and
kept
fidgeting about and giggling and was completely not in character.
I got up and did my best, except I hadn't memorised my part since
we
only had a day or so to prepare. Not being big-headed but I
*knew* I
was better than the other girl. Anyway, this teacher pinned the
audition results up on the board and she had given every single
person
who had gone for the auditions a role in the play.
Except for me.
I was the prompt.
At the time I thought it was the most humiliating experience of my
life, of course I never was the prompt, I never went to any of the
rehearsals.
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