• Start Recording To Youtube

  • Intro to Session: This is Empathy Circle 2

• Basic Agreements

  • This circles intention is to build a empathy movement which has the vision of building a worldwide culture of empathy. That means to deepen empathy in ourselves, in the circle, with family, with  friends, with our immediate community and globally.

• Introduction exercise  (time)

  • (Self Empathy) Meditation

    • close your eyes and feel in your body?

    • what are the sensations?

    • scan through your body

    • breath - what does the breathing feeling like?

    • what are the sensations in the different parts of your body?

    • tune into a sensation that has energy for you - feel it, turn that sensation into a physical movement with your hands, or face, maybe a sound, something that you will be able to share with the circle. go ahead and do it.

    • stop and open your eyes

  • (Mirrored Empathy) Mirror Present Feeling exercise

• Reporting Back - limit time?  

• (Mirrored Empathy) Reflective Listening Circle

  • experimenting with this process

  • How it works

    • someone brings a topic;

    • person 1 one speaks to person 2 about what comes up for them on the topic.

    • that person 2 reflects what they hear

      • do you feel heard?

      • is there more?

    • once person 1 feels fully heard, person 2 speaks to someone

    • the reflection continues around the circle

    • etc.

  • everyone in the circle can speak until they feel fully heard

  • keep the speaking in short bursts so that it can be reflected

• Topic:

  • Edwin: How do you feel now about confidentiality and openness in the Empathy Circle?

  • (Empathic Action) What do we do now?

• Closing Mirroring Exercise of person that brought the topic to the circle.

• How can we improve the process?

• What worked well?

• (get some positive testimonials for promotion)

• Stop Recording

• End of Meeting

• Intention:
  the origin of our actions is always an intention. The circles have the intention of raising the global level of empathy, creating a culture of empathy, and creating a global movement to raise the level of empathy in ourselves and consequently in society.

• Embody Empathy:
  We’re moving towards deeper embodiment of empathy. Again: the means are the end: we practice this by embodying the empathy itself.

• Empathy in the Process
  the process is build on- and uses the stages of empathy; The empathic means: self-empathy, mirrored empathy, imaginative empathy, empathic action

Benefits and outcomes of taking part in the movement

• gives me hope that we can make life better on the planet,

• that there will be less loneliness

• you will develop empathic resilience

• you will develop tools that can be applied to all of your relationships and make them more meaning full

• you will have a loving community