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Building a Culture of Empathy and Compassion in and
with the Occupy Movement
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The Occupy Movement is stirring up conflicts not only with the
mainstream culture but also within itself. This conflict is not unusual
and can be handled in ways that can bring order, meaning, connection,
transparency, and well-being to those involved. In order for the
movement to be consistent with its mission of being inclusive and giving
voice to the oppressed, it is proposed that those involved and impacted
by the movement move towards articulating it's values.
Proposal:
Empathy be adopted as a guiding value of the occupy movement. This
proposal outlines a systemic formula for developing empathic
(compassionate) connection for those involved in, and impacted by, the
Occupy Wall Street movement. That occupy advocate for transforming
society and raising the level of empathy and compassion throughout all
parts of the culture. This vision is captured and expressed in this
video.
Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love
Project: Occupy Empathy Conference
Let's start a series of in person and online panel
discussion about How to Build a Culture of Empathy with the Occupy
Movement? It will be a sub conference of the
Conference on: How to
Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion?
Here's a sample panel
Panel 008-A: How Can We Build a Culture
of Empathy & Compassion with the Occupy Movement?
We pose the question and see what ideas we come up with.
We can see what ideas, objections, concerns, emphatic action, etc. come
up.
Reference Links
Team Members
To Do
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Create a Facebook Event for group and
project
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Hold panels on: How can we Build a
Culture of Empathy and Compassion with the Occupy Movement
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Mutima is checking with\ the Oakland interfaith tent group about
holding a panel.
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Some Ideas about what a culture of empathy might look
like.
As a starting point, it's about
transforming hearts and all institutions (education, movement, commerce,
justice, health, corporations, media, police, military, etc.) from being
cultures of fear, greed, alienation, suffering and violence, to active
cultures of empathy and compassion.
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