Welcome to our latest Peer Connection Group session. In this session we focused on giving and receiving in meditation teaching. Our incredible members came together as a community of meditation teachers, facilitators, current students, and graduate business owners. We love to share and connect through our collective experiences.
The intention of our most recent Peer Connection Group (PCG) gathering was around the theme of “The Gift of Giving and Receiving”. Especially in relation to Meditation Teaching and running a Meditation Business. The group enjoyed delving into the profound value of both, acknowledging that at times, finding equilibrium between the two can be a challenge. ACMM Mentor and Co-facilitator of PCG, Sammy Wynn, shares highlights of the evening in this blog.
Giving and Receiving in Meditation Teaching
The session began with a short and enriching meditation practice. Following this, we delve a little deeper into our theme by reflecting upon the following questions:
- What would it feel like to allow yourself to receive?
- What would change for you if giving was not about striving or one-way offerings?
- What would unfold if you embraced the gift of giving and receiving?
To support our contemplation of these questions we watch a short excerpt from the following powerful and insightful talk. It goes to the heart of the fulfilling mutual connection that can come from both giving and receiving.
What emerged throughout our time together is that, for most of us giving comes more naturally. Out of giving and receiving, it feels most challenging to allow ourselves to receive.
Some of the key insights we explored as a group were:
- Most of us find it easy to give yet challenging to receive.
- Our ability to receive can often be associated with our feelings of worth and having to do or be more to feel valued and appreciated.
- Receiving can in fact be a vulnerable process, one which we often deny ourselves by way of protection.
- When we allow ourselves to receive we also allow the other person to give. Both the giver and receiver are gifted with the benefits of mutual connection in the moment.
Empowering ourselves to enjoy the gift of giving and receiving in Meditation Teaching
Following our group discussion, and feeling inspired after watching the video, the group flowed into breakout rooms. Each group was invited to create affirmations as a group that they could use. It helps bring a sense of openness and empowerment to their own willingness to receive.
Here are some of their empowering affirmations:
- I am open to receiving in honour of myself and others
- I am open to receiving the gift of giving
- I am open to the gift of receiving with kindness and compassion
- I confidently give and gratefully receive
- I am worthy of gratitude and open to receive
- I am giving and receiving in perfect harmony
- I am open to receiving with grace
- I am humility, I am gratitude, I am interconnectedness.
- I am the giver and the receiver. I am both
The power of these statements and the emotions they evoked within, allowed the group to truly honour the gift of giving and receiving. The group enjoyed acknowledging and honouring how interconnected the two processes are.
Authors – ACMM Mentors, Samantha Wynn & Brea Willingham
Peer Connection Groups at ACMM
As a student at ACMM, you will have free access to attend our regular online Peer Connection Groups. This is a space for you to come together with your fellow ACMM students and graduates to connect, collaborate, explore, and lean on each other as you navigate your own path as a meditation student and teacher. These groups are designed to support you in sharing ideas, gaining insight from the collective wisdom of the group and accessing inspiration from like-minded people.
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