troubles in practice

While practicing, it is likely that you will have some frustration with your partner. Here are some tips:

• When something is not working, it is VERY hard to tell what’s wrong and who is at fault, tempting though that is. When two people are moving in this way, the dynamics are very complicated.
• Share the responsibility. Don’t blame each other.
• We do not recommend trying to analyze it and talk about it. This easily leads to blaming the other person, etc.
• Each of you should worry about what you are doing, not what the other person is doing.
• Each party should just keep doing their best to remember the corrections the teachers made in the previous session and integrate those.
• Any questions or difficulties that come up should be written down and brought to your teacher. Let us figure out the problems.
• For the leader: if what you want isn’t happening, don’t say anything to your follower, just try to make it more clear, try to make it unavoidable. You will hear “it’s always the leader’s fault”. Even though it’s not true, this phrase is a good idea, because if the leader tries to solve the problem, it makes them a better leader…