(Empathy Healthcare Cafe - Planning Page)
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Joan's description:

The First Health Café in the USA
Can we help solve important issues, including health care, by taking actions to promote empathy? The El Cerrito filmmaker, Edwin Rutsch, says,” Yes we can!” Come to the Health Care Empathy Café, June 25th, 7-9 P.M., Redwood Gardens, 2951 Derby St., Berkeley, CA 94705, and find out what actions we can take that will change, what Obama calls, the empathy deficit. To register visit: CultureOfEmpathy.com

 

Edwin's description:

The National Health Care debate heats up at the Empathy Healthcare Café
June will be a big month for Healthcare as the Obama administration launches events and house parties in preparation for the big Healthcare discussions in Congress. The El Cerrito based Empathy Group, will hold an Empathy Healthcare Cafe at Redwoods Gardens, 2951 Derby St,  Berkeley on Thursday, June 25th, to help promote discussion and action on Healthcare.  In the Empathy Healthcare Cafe, attendees  will share personal stories about the relationship between an empathetic society and healthcare.  We will discuss, gather and video tape personal stories to be placed on the internet.  A series of 'Empathy Healthcare Cafe - Planning Meetings' are also being held in Berkeley. We hope you will take part and share your stories and insights for a more empathetic Healthcare system.   For more information visit the CultureOfEmpathy.com website or call 510 528-9895.

By Al Miller for the El Cerrito Democratic Club Newsletter

Empathy and You

President Obama on empathy: "We have the opportunity to make a habit of empathy, to recognize ourselves in each other, to commit ourselves to resisting injustice and intolerance and indifference, in whatever forms they may take...”

"I often say we’ve got a budget deficit that’s important, we’ve got a trade deficit that’s critical, but what I worry about most is our empathy deficit."

What does empathy mean to you? What role does it play in your life? What role should it play in our lives? Can we use our sense of empathy to ensure Healthcare Reform addresses what Obama calls the Empathy Deficit?

To explore the answers to these and other questions about empathy, ECDC members Edwin Rutsch and Joan Kuenz have organized The Empathy Healthcare Café project. They will hold an Empathy Healthcare Cafe event at The Redwoods Gardens, 2951 Derby Street in Berkeley on Thursday, June 25th, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. to help promote discussion and action.

Attendees will use The World Cafe meeting approach to discuss, gather and videotape personal stories. As a conversational process, the World Café process is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims.

You are also invited to attend the weekly planning sessions scheduled to create this event. These sessions are conducted at The Sustainability Center, 2105 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley, just two blocks from the downtown Berkeley BART Station. These Saturday planning events are scheduled for Jun 13th and 20th from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

For more information on any of these events, visit http://CultureOfEmpathy.com  or contact Edwin at  Edwin2 (at) humanityquest.com  or 510-528-9895.