Why: Silence shapes classrooms, policies, and lives.

Embodiment: Sip tea as you listen inward.

Reflection Prompts:

• What silence are you ready to name or explore?

• What story does EFL still need from you?
  

🖋️ Excerpt from Kevin Kumashiro, Against Common Sense (Introduction):

1. Learning involves not only knowledge acquisition, but unlearning as well—unlearning what we think we know about teaching, learning, and what it means to be a good student or teacher. This process often involves discomfort: confronting our own assumptions, challenging cherished beliefs, and recognizing complicity in systemic inequities.

2. Teaching is not about mastering content or managing classrooms. It is about engaging contradictions, navigating uncertainty, and inviting transformation—of ourselves, our students, and the systems we inhabit.

   
   

Why: Rethink “common sense,” notice resistances, and embrace the beginner’s mindset.

Embodiment: Surround yourself with the discomfort of silence

Reflection Prompts:

• What assumptions about teaching or learning might you unlearn?

• Where does discomfort signal transformation?
  

In “The Place Where the Harmonium Was,” memory resounds in objects and silences: a blind calf, a rural childhood, a forgotten affair. Shin’s prose reminds us of echoes that linger, half-said, half-remembered.

Embodiment: Harmonium music

Reflection Prompts:

• What silent harmonium lives inside your teaching or learning?

• What untended spaces remain—moments, relationships, or stories

• How might you listen to those echoes (sketching, journaling, walking, gathering leaves)?
  

• Share one echo you are carrying forward
  

• Offer a word of support for our community
  

• Leave at your own pace—in silence, or with music

✨ Listening together, we make room for voices often unheard.