If you want to do something, say it out loud.
I said to my student today in our lesson, “The goal is that we create enough trust in these lessons that you can feel comfortable experimenting.” Because experimenting is essential to growing as an artist, but it also inevitably comes with failure. Who wants to fail in front of their teacher? No one, unless they trust their teacher to be aligned with their own goals.
That trust happens over time, and it’s built through 1,000 small interactions and micro-moments. But setting that goal of trust early on in the process is, I think, a great way to get the ball rolling in the right direction.