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• Empathy Circles

  • Is about listening and being heard.
    Taking Empathic Creativity

• Listening Quotes

  • Images

• Reflective Listening In a group

• Empathy buddy - have 3 empathy buddies and have a reflective circle each week for a hour.

What is the first questions for the circle:

• How can we fulfill our intention of building a culture of empathy?

• How can you fulfill our intention of building a culture of empathy?

• How are you on fulfilling our intention of building a culture of empathy?

• What is a culture of empathy?

• What is empathy?

Introduction

• Reflecting is not agreeing

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Do a listening project

• quotes on listening - to Facebook

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What are peoples needs for empathy?

• the need for being hear

• need for being empathized with

• need for being reflected.

Empathy Circles for Kids

• Have children start doing fun circles when they're young

• let's have an empath circle! do you want to join?

• "What's that?"

• "It's to be a mirror to each other."

• Types

  • do an act, everyone mirrors it.

  • do a sound, everyone mirror it.

  • be quiet,  everyone mirror it.

  • tell a story,  someone mirrors it.

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Theories underpinning Empathy Circles

•  a sample of how to set that up:  Community Weaving Practices

• Community Weaving map

Documentation

• how to document the Empathy circle?

• video tape the process

• some outline of what was covered would be good

What is the entry into the discussion?

• how to build a culture of empathy, what is a

  • problem

  • celebration

  • exploration

  • project

    • for example, how to we design a meeting format

    • how do we document the material

• a moment of conflict

How do we tap into empathic creativity?  

• the creativity and action that arises, out of coming together, feeling deeply?

What are the problems with Reflective Listening?

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Some of Edwin's experiences in reflective listening?

• sometimes the person talks so fast and in such a concentrated fashion that I can't get the meaning of that they are saying.

  • I'd like to say, please slow down,

  • or give me shorter bursts of the story so that I can catch up

  • I have the story of reflective dancing, mirroring the other dancer and the sense of clicking into gear with them. There's a shared, empathic creativity that grows out of that connection.

  • How about reflecting on actions you would like to do?

Sura Hart Dialog

 just wanted to run the Empathy Circle  idea and process by you and get your feedback on it?
You've done a lot of facilitation, groups and empathy processes,

• Reflective listening - any problems with it.

• what the big thing about guessing needs?

can wander and not be focus and solution for cused -

question toward solution

conflict natural flow -

Relative listening

    - parroting back - can be flat and

           - nothing added

           -  noth so meaningful

empathic connection

         - meaning

          - needs

          - common humanity

Why are you  telling the story.

Getting the inner experience -

that going deeper -

specific intension

what's important to people

   what is the purpose of one to one?  go by spontaneity.