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 Hi!  My name is Timothy and I want to take this opportunity to welcome you to a space dedicated to teachers.  This corner of the web is geared towards creating a community that cultivates resilience, restores a sense of purpose, and highlight the joy associated with answering the call to teach.  

All across our world, in various systems of education we are reminded of the problems that exist and oftentimes feel the need to fix everything. This space is not intended to add fuel to the fire, but instead tip the scales towards a more balanced and centered way forward.  The way forward as I imagine is not linear or without obstacle. To navigate the journey, we will use the ever available and expansive tool of mindfulness and explore various modalities that over time have the capability to transform our experiences.  Everything offered here is an invitation. An invitation to take what resonates and leave what doesn't. 

This space is not about what's wrong.  We are not broken, and as individuals do not need to be "fixed".  Instead, this space is about filling our cups so that we may give from a source of abundant overflow.  Teaching, in my opinion is far more about who you are versus what you are.  There is an endless potential available when we are able to separate what event may have happened, from the core of who we are.

"Now I become myself.  It's taken time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, worn other people's faces......."

-May Sarton, "Now I Become Myself"



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