hypnosis kink
I have been encouraged to consider teaching a class on hypnosis, but;
- I would be teaching my specific model of hypnosis, which is true of anyone, but I lack the pretence that my model is an authoritative one
- My model hasn't been challenged much? I would like it to hold up to scrutiny, and if it has received any I haven't been told
- I don't know that my model is more useful to people that immediately want results than models that contain built-in presumptions that help the model work
re: hypnosis kink
@HabitEXE I can only speak about teaching in general here (technical subjects in my case): as long as you're honest about what you're teaching and how, I think it's entirely fine to just teach whatever you are personally familiar with.
Ultimately that's what everybody else is doing too, regardless of what 'peer review' it might have had. It's just important to make sure that "your personal teachings" are actually the thing that people know they are signing up for, and that they understand the limitations of your approach (if any).
I've found that people rarely apply learned knowledge literally anyway, often they're just looking for someone who understands it to an explainable degree, in some version that's known-good enough to work as a baseline, and then they build their own understanding from there. Authoritativeness seems to rarely be expected.
