Have you ever looked back on your tutoring or teaching journey and thought about what it has taught you rather than what you have taught others? Join Neil in today’s episode as he does exactly that. Neil talks through how he stumbled into the world of tutoring, how teaching often has a habit of producing unexpected consequences and how it can allow you to become more self-aware.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Teaching has a habit of producing unexpected consequences, usually out of leftfield, emerging from our blindpsots where they’ve been hiding for ages, waiting for the moment to be right to show themselves.
Neil started teaching in 1999 after constant requests from customers in the music shop he partly owned. It was uncomfortable but it got easier as Neil became better at teaching. He found it to be a lot more fun than his finance job as he was able to help people grow and become who they wanted to be.
When we teach, we reach deep into our own psyche, better to understand our students, and in doing so we become more self-aware, realising that we are all more alike than we are different.
Neil thinks of teaching as reaching back to the members of his tribe who are on the same trail he has walked. He believes that teaching work is to reveal what is most needed by your students, and that experience in turn reveals us to yourselves.
BEST MOMENTS
“I shared my love affair with the guitar”
“I became more of who I wanted to be”
“I’m more truly myself when I’m teaching, I believe”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Listen to The Tutor Podcast on the Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tutor-podcast/id1369191372)! Build Your Online Course Week 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724
Course Planning Week 2: Who Am I?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724
Who are They? (Know Your Punters): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/who-are-they-know-your-punters/id1369191372?i=1000478984529
Read the Weird Things Guitarists Do book by Neil Cowmeadow, which is available now on Amazon. Link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Things-Guitarists-Do-Misconceptions/dp/1519026579/
Contact Neil via this website - com!
ABOUT THE HOST
Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!
CONTACT METHOD
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