Empathy Community > 2013-12-30 -  Empathy Circle Reflections

• Edwin Rutsch  - MeetUp - Facebook

• Vicki Lapp  - MeetUp - Facebook

• Jake   - MeetUp - Facebook

• Ross Forman    - MeetUp - Facebook

• Eva    - MeetUp - Facebook

• Gary Gilliam    - MeetUp - Facebook

• Kiran Patel   - MeetUp - Facebook

• Michael Irschick    - MeetUp - Facebook 

• Michael (Berkeley)    - MeetUp - Facebook

• Michael Paoli   - MeetUp - Facebook

Intentions

 Intention for the Empathy Circle
Our intention for the circle is to build an empathic community.

 

 

Edwin Rutsch

• to be more focused on building a local empathic community.

Vicki Lapp

• 1. lubricate empathy muscle and consciousness

• 2. community

 

Michael Irschick

• Needs:

• To express myself, specifically about my frustration with my health problems,.

• To connect and listen to people.

• To empathize with people.

 Eva

• have a good time

Michael Paoli

• Listen better - particularly active listening and empathy. Share better - thoughts, feelings, concerns.

Ross Forman

•  To learn to be truly receptive to the experiences o others without necessarily "responding"

 

Gary Gilliam

• Meet new people, find new ways of looking at things

 

Connect deeply with my inner truth

 

 

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I like..

Vicki

• switching groups so that I got to connect with more people and tell my story twice!

• Getting attention and sharing my experience w/people how car (or seem to)

Ross Forman

• to feel vulnerable and e authentic and feel safe doing so

Edwin Rutsch

• that the group is getting larger

• I'm learning and getting experience in hosting these empathy circles in this setting

• that we had people switched tables and be with new people

Michael Paoli

• being heard

• hearing others, listening

• hearing new /different ideas and perspectives

• understanding more

Eva 

• sharing and feeling heard

Gary

•  listening to people who want to be heard

Michael I.

• the opportunity to share, to listen, to hear people express vulnerabilities

I Wish...

Vicki

•  I felt a little calmer

• the tables weren't so close together so we didn't feel distracted by nearby voices

Ross Forman

•  for discussion topics that might be written to create connections around specific needs/feelings

Edwin Rutsch

• We had more time, 2+ hours. It takes a while to start getting into the groove of the dialog,

• we had more prep material for explaining how the empathy circle works

• I had better way for dialoging or explaining about empathic community building

Michael Paoli - More?

 

Eva 

• I had an empathy partner to check  in with during the week

Gary

• more people talked about deeper issues

What if...

Vicki

•  we went a little longer when there are more (till 8:45 or 9:00pm)

• people and we rotate group members

Ross Forman

• A period of silence after a speaker finishes  - be integrated into reflection

Edwin Rutsch

• we set the time to 2 hours

• I create a empathic listening training video

• we  create an empathy buddy feature for connecting people together.

Michael Paoli - yes, what if?