- Teachers, facilitators or those working with children need to spend time understanding themselves and where they come from. - Can't help create joyful environments without finding some joy for themselves - It's also important for everyone to be comfortable being vulnerable and open. It's hard to expect others to open up if we're not willing to open up ourselves. - Perhaps it's important to also build some sort of career path for the facilitators and see how we can help be a part of that. ---- teachers must be actively committed to a process of self-actualization that promotes their own well being if they are to teach in a manner that empowers students - Bell Hooks in [[Teaching To Transgress]] Engaged pedagogy does not seek simply to empower students. Any classroom that employs a holistic model of learning will also be a place where teachers grow, and are empowered by the process - Bell Hooks in [[Teaching To Transgress]]