This gentle and compassionate questioning transforms emotional pain into something new — a new and developing you. The Possibility Practice is a powerful way to help you with whatever pain and difficulty you are experiencing.
Practice with us and feel and get better. It brought us so close that we decided to have a baby together. It felt like we created more room in the world. Karen Steinberg is a therapist and executive coach, speaker, and writer. Deeply impacted by the unyielding pain and suffering in the world, she has dedicated her life to the study and practice of human and social transformation. Her work is an expression of her conviction that to transform our lives and our world, we have to work together to create the change.
Karen has spent a lifetime helping people and organizations to turn their greatest obstacles into discovery and possibility. Stanka Nestorovic is passionate about creating new possibilities for her patients and helping them to grow.
Stanka was raised in Banjaluka, in the northwestern region of the former Yugoslavia, now Bosnia. Stanka has worked alongside Karen Steinberg, assisting in her group therapy practice since , and maintains her private practice in our offices at Fifth Avenue. I have received a tremendous amount of help from Stanka. I feel rejuvenated. This has allowed me an opportunity to learn more about people- who they are, how I relate to them and they to me. I now have a better understanding of my effect on others, and this has been essential to my growth as a leader.
I used to make myself sick with nerves; something as basic as taking the subway took incredible strength and courage for me. Now, I travel to countries all over the world for my dream job. Engaging in experiential learning in this group setting really allowed me to work on my areas of focus and receive invaluable real time feedback from a diverse set of cohorts. I learned and refined skills that I can apply and that I am applying in all aspects of my life.
She helped me to see how my attitudes and means of communication were holding me back. By suggesting that perfect might be achievable if we only try hard enough, or practice in a better way, we are condemning ourselves and our students to failure. Perfection is a myth. Improvement, on the other hand, is always possible and should be the goal of our practice. Improvement should be the goal in life, in education, in the creation of art, in work, and in everything that we do.
None of us are capable of perfect. We are all capable of improvement. This is what I am referring to as The Practice. We should do everything possible to help all of our students achieve—it is not always easy. However, once we get to the point of deeply wanting to do whatever is possible to help others achieve success, we should consider how best to make this idea a reality for as many people as possible. This can happen only if we recognize that perfect is not possible and come to understand how improvement is possible if we implement The Practice.
Therefore, a commitment to the highest welfare of others—students and colleagues—can best be supported by teaching them how to practice and what behaviors to forsake so that they themselves can have the power to achieve and overcome difficulties and challenges. For this to happen, we must be willing to give up old ideas and ineffective practices. Accordingly, for the sake of helping others, we should work to become fully prepared.
How do we prepare? We need to remove all obstacles and preconceived notions from our own minds and practices. Compassionate teachers actively seek to positively overcome the obstructions that prevent their own liberation. One size will not always fit all equally.
This is not easy and requires knowing our students and helping them to remove negative emotions and past obstacles to success. In many ways, in order to genuinely help others find success and achievement, it is necessary to seek out self-improvement and an enlightened approach to our own practices. When we are resolved to engage in The Practice ourselves, we seek out self-improvement for the sake of others—an altruistic intention. By seeing ourselves and others as equally striving for improvement and then switching the emphasis from our own aims to the needs of others, we create powerful learning opportunities for every person we have the good fortune of working with.
Care about others at all times. If we are not able to care about others, we should at least do no harm. The Practice is a moral call to arms and is essential to facilitate growth, happiness, achievement, improvement, and success for people. Perfect is a myth. Improvement is always possible and is my passionate hope for all.
Remember, perfection is a myth. Improvement, however, is always possible and should be the goal of our practice.
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