How She Learned to Teach What She Knew

I've learned that true mastery isn't just knowing the answer, it's helping someone else understand it. Teaching and coaching others has deepened my own understanding by challenging me to simplify complex ideas, communicate with clarity, and stay open to new perspectives. Every person I help grow teaches me something new in return.

Teaching has deepened my understanding by reminding me that knowledge becomes more meaningful when we can make it accessible, relatable, and transformative for others. Through my work as a mental health professional, writer, speaker, and educator, I've learned that every time I teach, I am also learning about the subject, about people, and about the power of words to create understanding and healing.

My "training" journey began in my high school years. My high school itself is known for "training and development" field itself. The rest of knowledge is through own internships and formal teachers. I continued as trainer in all my fields. It is a field in itself - Training, Development, Research and Leadership.

During my 45 year tenure in Hi-tech of which I have now successfully retired from, I learned that it is best to teach a person / a class/ a group something new by telling a story. When you share a story, the message resonates with a person vs just stating facts. This works well with all ages.

Teaching yoga and breathwork taught me that knowing something in my own body is very different from helping another person discover it in theirs. I had to learn to explain less, observe more and create enough safety for each student to find their own way into the practice. Every question made me examine what I thought I understood, and every student reminded me that healing is never one-size-fits-all. Teaching deepened my knowledge, but more importantly, it deepened my humility. That lesson now shapes everything I build: the most meaningful guidance does not tell people who to be it gives them the education, support and space to reconnect with what their own body has been saying all along.

As a Neurodivergent Specialist for Damilatis-Kull Consulting, I have learned the powerful impact of providing education through my workshops and speaking engagements. I work with organizations by providing workshops on recognizing invisible and visible differences related to neurodivergence. Through these workshops, participants learn how to implement supportive strategies for EVERYONE as anyone can become neurodivergent at any point in their life. By spreading awareness, acceptance, and appreciation of neurodivergent individuals through specific actions, others learn how to build welcoming spaces where everyone feels embraced for their differences.