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A little more than a week ago I was arriving in Italy to the sala of Roberto Gotti for a special gathering of swordsmen called Giocatore. This was a weekend of martial encounters across disciplines, opportunities to share knowledge, and time to immerse oneself in study and camaraderie.
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Elevating our teachers to a realm beyond what is humanly achievable can be a strategy for minimizing our own expectations, and thus our disappointments. It can also be a way of giving away our own responsibility for being our own teacher.
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For many these are the learning skills that they've had the most practice with, since our school system focuses so much on them. It may not be that you are "wired this way", simply that you have not had the same opportunity to develop learning skills and strategies in the other styles.
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This week I'm exploring kinesthetic learning, which can be understood as the act of learning by feeling or doing. Kinesthetic sense is often best engaged through experiencing the stimulus for the skill and feeling the consequence of right and wrong action.
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For this week's post in our continuing series on empowered learning I am going to suggest some strategies for maximizing our auditory learning abilities. If new knowledge is pleasing to your ears: read on!
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Visual learning is the process of learning a new skill by seeing it demonstrated or receiving correction through visual modeling. Here are a few things to consider that can maximize this form of information acquisition.
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Your learning is only based partly on the effectiveness of your teacher. It is largely based on your own personal effectiveness as a learner. Good teachers should certainly help you on this journey, but the more you can help yourself, the more you stand to gain in each of the learning situations of your life.
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As tournaments (and competition in general) started to wane for me, I needed new ways to explore and deepen my passion for my art. I found that many of the most inspiring practitioners I knew put more attention into other avenues of practice and growth than tournaments.
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Having a solid approach to safety in your group is important for retaining members, keeping your body healthy, and for creating the space for experimentation.
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If your group does things one way it can be difficult to allow that those who practice a different system may also be doing something right.
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