“An awareness interview is one where the teacher asks questions to help broaden the student’s awareness of her experiences in meditation. The purpose of this kind of interview is to bring into clearer focus aspects of one’s experience that are in the background or on the periphery of awareness. It is our way of teaching greater awareness of both the process one is going through in meditation and the content that comes up with it. So the interview will include what someone was thinking about as well as how she was relating to the thinking. What gradually develops over time with this kind of interview is improved recall of what happens in meditation, more information about one’s inner world in meditation, and thus more familiarity with one’s experiences while they are occurring in meditation.”