Can you teach or inspire self awareness?

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Can you teach or inspire self awareness? - feddit.nl

If so, how?

By pausing the student in the middle of acting and having her reflect on the why of her action.

Literally the most important question. This is a great point, and I need to give it more weight in this situation.

The problem is that I usually get short, angry replies when I prompt a why question.

The other person needs to either want to become self aware, or at least want to please the one doing the correcting.
They say they want to improve, but I kinda feel like they aren’t even self aware enough to know what they want.