Meetings > Empathy Circles Project
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Resource Links

• Linkedin Discussion Page - Join the team discussion here.

• Empathy Circles Outline

• Create: Facebook Cause

• Create: Facebook Circle Events

• Create: Facebook Circle Event Project Event.

Forming a group that’s committed to building a culture of empathy and compassion 

• Why do you want to build a culture of empathy and compassion?  reflective listening

Vision:

• The vision is to bring together people who self identify as working to build a culture of empathy, including specifics about projects they are working in and strategies being used.

Mission:

• develop the Empathy Circles format

Meeting outline: ideas

• Work to develop a reproducible meeting format that maximizes the experience of empathy.

  • I'd like to be heard,

• it needs an action component.

• create a long term community

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Hold In Person Meetings
Regularly scheduled Meetings

To do

• find a meeting space

• find a core group

• hold regular meetings on a fixed day of the week

What where issues from past meetings

• open or closed meeting -

  • openness and transparency

• people in great need to be heard, taking up a lot of space

• Conflict and Resolution

  • Restorative Circles

Cost:  free

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NOTES TO SORT

Empathy Group meeting Ideas to Organize

Talk about How to Build a Culture of Empathy?

• What are your ideas?

• What are you doing and how's it going?

• Empathy hot tub?

• Empathy Buddy

• What we need is a way to deepen  the empathic connection of people in a routine manor.  Like through  a church of empathy where every week you go to a place to be heard and nourished and listen to others.. In school there could be empathic listening times. In the family as well.

• Brainstorming Ideas for how to create the group.

• It's about creating an empathy lifestyle.

  • - empathic listening circles

  • - self empathy exercised

  -  restorative empathy circles.

• Create a curriculum - meeting format

• People need to be committed to wanting to build a culture of empathy and compassion.

• Listening Group

  • Empathic, Listening,

  • Active Listening,

• Activities

  • how to have a activity section?

  • have a form and groups create a To Do list?

• Document the group, online,

  • video tape

  • meeting minutes

• We will work to develop a reproducible meeting format that maximizes the experience of empathy.

• Meetings Roles

  • Convener:

  • Need a facilitator:

  • Collaborators:

  • Scribe:

  • Timekeeper:

• Planning Team

• Questions to Discuss

  • How are you right now in relation to building a culture of empathy?

    • group reflect

    • have you been heard?

  • What is your story about why you are interested in empathy?

    • group reflect

    • have you been heard?

  • Question with one person reflecting and writing the reflection

    • write up the reflection

• Person talks - with Reflective listening,

  • do not move on until that person has been fully heard.

• Ground Rules

  • meeting is about building a culture of empathy

• My Concerns

  • people attend to kick the tires. not deeply committed

  • people with high empathy needs - high judgments

  • contentiousness

  • want grounded empathic people with skills,

    • someone I can learn from

• Group Conflict Resolution - when there are inevitable conflicts in the group, how will they be resolved?

  • we are looking for conflicts - gives us a chance to try out mediation.

  • An empathy buddy

  • Have a restorative circle process in place

  • Find mediation forms

    • designated mediators

    • empathy buddy

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• Empathy nourishes us.  if we can create a group that maximizes the nourishing qualities of empathy

  • pre circle notions - from restorative circles

  • bringing together all these different meeting modalities and restructuring them about the idea of build a culutre of empathy and compassion

• Story Telling - The Obama approach

  • Tell the story of why empathy is important to you?

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• Meeting Outline

  • Empathy Puja - some physical connection to raise the Oxytocin level

    • circular hug.

    • group hug

  • Maximize small group talking

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  • Empathy Buddies - team

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  • Pre - Pre and post circles notion - 

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• Some sort of a commitment to wanting to work actively to build a culture of empathy and compassion.

  • what does that look like?

• Ground Rules

  • what is not empathy

    • analysis

    • fixing

    • judgments

   

• Introduction

  • Group for building a culture of empathy and compassion.

    • (why?)

    • what does that mean?

      • Empathy for oneself, connecting with the inner flow of thoughts and feelings, hearing them ourselves

      • Empathy for those around us, hearing/seeing/feeling/connecting with the inner flow of thoughts and feelings, hearing them ourselves

      • Empathy from those around us hearing/seeing/feeling us.

      • Empathy with the wider community, connecting with all

• What maximizes empathy?

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• Introductions: what if people are coming in and out.. .i.e. not coming to all meetings and loses the continuity

  • new introductions is a pain

• When people feel they are heard - they feel good. knowing that there is a place to go to for being heard.

• we need to tap into a basic emotional energy source for the process to be sustainable.

• People telling their story and being heard - reply to a question?

  • empathy

  • reflective listening

  • active listening

  • summarizing

  • rephrasing

  • one person talks and the listeners take notes.

    • listeners rephrase and summarizes,

    •  writes up notes

• Action Component.

  • an action form to fill out.

  • the typing up and organizing of the empathy notes:

• Energetic empathy exercise - physical movement that is mirrored.

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• The Mediation process and how the components could be used

  • mediators pre circle

  • disputants with mediators

  • disputants talk with each other

    • reflect

      • feelings

      • story

      • observations, facts details

      • needs

    • needs guess

    • empathy

    • rephrase

    • summarize

  • mediators post circle

  • 1 month follow up

• NVC 3 stool Meditation

  • observations

  • feelings

  • needs

• Restorative Circles

  • facilitator pre circle

  • facilitator and participant pre circle

  • Circle

  • post circle

  • facilitator post circle

• NVC

  • Observations

  • Feelings

  • Needs

  • Requests

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