• Facebook.com/queenrev.mutimaimani

• Oakland Peace Keepers

• Panel 001-A:  How Can We Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion?

• Panel 001-B: How to Nurture, Foster & Teach Empathy in the Education System?

Clip1:  Mutima Imani on Empathy Introduction
 

• Introduction

  • Reverend Mutima Imani, Social Justice Minister, Faces of the East Bay

  • Church of East Bay Church of Religious Sciences

  • Peace Keepers for the night of the Mehserle sentencing

  • A peaceful response

  • I like the concept of empathy

    • tolerance and empathy

    • tolerance - I put up with you,

    • empathy is deeper - I see you as a whole person

    • it's opening the heart and seeing you.

    • the practice of empathy is open heartedness, open mindedness , feeling you as I feel myself

    • broader more beautiful and deeper

    • moving toward oneness

• The history of your life, where did you learn empathy?

  • father was a lifer in the air force

  • we lived overseas

  • learned empathy by being in different cultures and feeling accepted.

  • learned to read the empathic feelings

  • walls versus curiosity

  • suspending judgments of others, developing curiosity of who they are.

  • I practice that as a diversity trainer

  • drop into my heart and extend love

  • Empathetic heart - no shame, no blame, no guilt

  • we're going to learn together

  • Empathetic heart - your children are our children

• What does empathy feel like?

  • it's a feeling of security, curiosity, excitement, relaxed energetic

  • curiosity - wow, who are you

  • self esteem is at the bottom of it

  • not putting up those walls

Clip 2:  Mutima Imani on Empathy and Justice

• What's relationship between Empathy and Justice?

  • justice needs to be defined some more

  • we're talking about Social Justice

  • Criminalization of poor people

  • example the Weed and Seed Programs - street sweeps

  • If you don't have money your criminalized

  • Marijuana given sever sentences

  • Empathetic heart - instead of judging, think and feel

    • stories of nephew with pound of cocaine

    • taking responsibility

    • 40 years for pound of cocaine

    • discriminatory laws

  • severity of different sentencing

  • let's be more empathetic

  • We're all in this together.

   

Clip 3:  Mutima Imani on Building a Culture of Empathy
 

• How to create a Culture of Empathy?

  • Forgiveness is at the heart of empathy

  • poem, I forgive you America and Oakland

  • I forgive you on the fear based on color

  • removes victim-hood

  • democracy that includes all of us

  • it brings empathetic listening

  • forgiveness first workshops

• Metaphor of empathy?

  • A Universal mother and father

  • Seeing each child as your child

• Conclusion

  • Peacekeepers Mission

  • Part of the peacekeepers mission is to build relationship and have empathy for the police as part of the community

  • there's been a divide between the police and the community

  • police are note empathetic to the social conditions that people live in

  • and the community are not empathetic to the police and what they are there for.

  • want to come together to create community dialogs

Clip 4: Mutima Imani on Empathy and the Oakland Peace Keepers
 

• Peacekeepers Mission

• Part of the peacekeepers mission is to build relationship and have empathy for the police as part of the community. I believe that there's been a divide between the police and the community and that it's sort of set up martial law, where the police are not empathetic to the social conditions that people live in, and that the people in our community are not empathetic to the police's responsibility and what they are there for. So that we can come together and begin community dialogs that would be empathetic on both parts,  and that it would be a healing in the community