{"id":5126,"date":"2015-12-03T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2018-01-11T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:35:13","slug":"lives-not-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/lives-not-own\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our lives are not our own&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5128 alignright\" title=\"Our Lives are not our own\" src=\"http:\/\/www.integrationtraining.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Our-Lives-are-not-our-own1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Our-Lives-are-not-our-own1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Our-Lives-are-not-our-own1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Our-Lives-are-not-our-own1-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Our-Lives-are-not-our-own1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.&#8221; &#8211; from Cloud Atlas<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of the courses I host is the community. Peer support, connection and community is the heart of EFC, not the teachers. We avoided having one central teacher (I co-lead with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francis.briers\">Francis Briers<\/a> and we have many guests) to emphasise this and how if students learnt from a variety of teachers they could find their own unique style, appropriate for their work and cultural context. Another aspect for us that important is service work, this is both a coursework requirement and an exam criteria. Without service personal growth doesn&#8217;t work and if it did what&#8217;s the point? Do good, by your own definition, or I&#8217;m not interested in teaching you. Hardline perhaps but small stands are needed.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.embodiedfacilitator.com%2F&amp;h=uAQGE8CTVAQFUCPP9kb_zdX-r7J7qNuAZavk4h5T_V1CT1g&amp;enc=AZMT_6h_UsCtddTp1OE9hNwEeWaY9nl4M_q7jBf-7XycnQNggb5FwnJLxlAuXztP5WnBzWb2HVPBsGQEidZYorMhecGJm3QXaBmPN6Gzgz21wyusvexZMKJ3VUxg2GUGyCiiQ2324NH0AXYZIRP-W9UZpq9t8lIr7GZCMwTR0aDzEpqjnFIO8N3eIXmRuk5q74c&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.embodiedfacilitator.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.&#8221; &#8211; from Cloud Atlas Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of the courses I host is the community. Peer support, connection and community is the heart of EFC, not the teachers. We avoided having one central teacher (I co-lead withFrancis Briers and we have many guests) to emphasise this and how if students learnt from a variety of teachers they could find their own unique style, appropriate for their work and cultural context. 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