CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Sent to a trainer (11/19/2008 1:53:35 PM)
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I find it amazing the number of s-types who would get bent out of shape if they were sent to a trainer. As part of my work, I spend about 15 hours a month in training for different things... now my bosses are really intelligent people, but sometimes, there are things that one needs to learn that the immediate supervisor can't or won't teach, for any number of reasons. Sometimes, it's good to just get a different perspective on things. When in training before I earned my crop, I spent about two weeks over the course of 4 years learning specific skills, and spent 3 months in French cooking school honing my culinary, pastry, chocolate, and sugar-working skills to suit the fancy of my keepers... even though I will NEVER use it for anything other than feeding our family, friends, and probably some of my more daring co-workers. Specifics about how I want things in our home handled are, of course, going to be things that I will want to teach, but I would have no compunctions about sending someone to a trainer to learn specific arts or even basic skills that I could later refine with my preferences-- proper cleaning techniques for marble, wood, ceramic tile, enamel; tea service; cooking skills; leather care; massage; dance; written-word skills; public speaking; editing and grammar; foreign languages; reptile care and feeding; decorating techniques... I can think of a hundred different things that I might send someone to a trainer for. It strikes me as hubris that one would think that there is nothing, even nothing in the D/s world, that one could learn aside from one's keeper or from what is held within the four walls of one's own house. Because we -do- send servants out to be trained occasionally, I can empathize with the OP. There is that sense of being out of control. One thing that worked for us was having certain things that we required of our servants while they were away, including a journal that they had to document the experience in that they would bring home. Knowing that they were working on the journal while they were away gave that sense of connection between the training period and the time at home.
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