It was brought to our attention recently that someone was teaching Simple Keys tools without giving credit for where she obtained these tools.
We sat in on one of her classes. She had a cover over my book and read from it several times, always without acknowledging the book title or the class where she learned the keys.
After she finished the class, we approached her to introduce myself and to chat about her teaching process. She complained that when she took the Simple Keys class, that the tools worked for her so she wanted to use them with her students. We asked her why she was hiding the book from her students.
After discussion, she admitted a few things:
(1) She wanted to get the praise and admiration of being the teacher.
(2) She was afraid that if she told her students where she really got the tools that they wouldn't want to learn from her and instead they would want to go directly to the Simple Keys course or to the books themselves.
(3) Her students were having difficulty understanding the keys so it took more effort on her part to assist them in getting the same positive results she had seen happen from students in my classes.
However, what she began to understand during our conversation was that by her hiding from her students that she herself has a mentor she was stopping the flow of them seeing her as a mentor. And by taking the credit for what was written by someone else, was a form of stealing; and she admitted that some of her students were not paying as agreed and her class sizes were not growing.
We suggested that she do an experiment at her next class where she intended to use one of the Simple Keys tools. This time, she was to tell her students that this was a tool she learned from her mentor and that this was a Simple Keys tool. She was to explain why and when she used this tool and the personal results she got when she used the tool.
She called a few days later, almost in tears. She had received feedback from her students that it was the best class ever. They went on to tell her that it was easier to grasp what she was teaching them when she gave personal examples because it then felt that then they could see how it would work in their lives.
Following up with her again a few weeks later, she was excited to share that her class size was growing, and one student paid her the best compliment– “You are my mentor because you are real.”
We believe we are all here to learn from each other, and there are many messengers. The message we deliver is not new, it is only our interpretation of the message. The difference is when we take responsibility for our interpretation or our sharing of another’s interpretation.
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