One of the great things about learning is that you get to experience all different sorts of teachers. Each one has a style unique to them.

I have had the good fortune of being exposed to a few teachers that weren’t in the mainstream. They had messages to convey that weren’t conventional, yet extremely powerful.

But even among these gifted teachers, there was a distinction worth noting. You learned from them or you learned by being in their presence. Let me explain.

Most teachers fall into the category of people you learn things from. They have a style, technique or formula to impart. This is a valuable method. We follow their instructions and learn to do what they’re teaching.

Then there is the rare teacher that has nothing to teach other than to get you to learn.

The word “Educate” comes from the Latin word, “Educare” which literally means to bring out. It’s the rare teacher that will get you to a place where you can tap in to your resources and bring out something you didn’t know you had.

They perform this magic by being present. They set aside any agenda they may have about you and are just there with you. I like to call it teaching without judging.

These special people know you have something worthwhile to learn and they’re smart enough to know they can’t teach it to you. Their main gift is leading you to a place where you can learn it yourself.

If you’ve ever read a passage from a book that just stopped your stream of thinking for a moment and gave you a sense of knowing, you have experienced this type of learning.

Any teaching that stops your thinking is a pathway to learning. Think back on something you saw that was so beautiful that it took your breath away. That moment of breathlessness was a moment of learning.

All teachers aren’t people. We can learn from anything – a flower, a mountain, a landscape, an animal or an inanimate object. We just have to be present with it and we will learn.

Presence leads to learning. The teacher who is present learns as much as the student he/she’s leading. The funny thing is neither one of them knows where specifically they are going or what they will learn. They only know they will discover something new and worthwhile by being present.

Presence takes practice. It begins by noticing the stream of thought going on in your head while attempting to teach or learn. Each time we take the time to notice our stream of thought, we slow it down, until it eventually becomes a trickle. That’s when we become present – when there isn’t an agenda or syllabus in the way. That’s when we learn and that’s when we lead others to a place of learning.

If there is one thing worth learning, it’s learning to be present.

All the best,

John

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