Empathy Tent Building a Culture of Empathy and Compassion. http://bit.ly/xpwwUU The Empathy Tent
is an open and eclectic space for people to foster the values of
empathy, compassion, connection, caring, community, freedom, peace, nonviolence, justice,
empathic action, etc. Our intention is to build a culture of empathy where everyone is
included, feels fully heard and accepted and we take empathic action
together to transform our society.
“By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts
with empathy, without violence,
and creatively - a never-ending
process;” Johan Galtung
April 8, 2013, Meeting
1
The group
took on the Empathy Tent as a project and started brainstorming on
how to set it up.
April 15, 2013,
Meeting 2
Brainstorming how to set up the tent and
activities to host, etc. Three planning groups were formed; Empathy
Dialog, Art-Music, Play-Fun. We started planning a schedule
and activities. Tent will be set up;
April 15, 2013, Meeting 3 - Continue planning
April 28, 2013, Meeting 4 - planning for April 30 tent setup
Edwin will be on the lawn in Sproul Plaza, near Sather Gate
doing ongoing Empathic Listening and
Empathy Circle
facilitation with anyone that drops by. (More on
Empathy Circle Trainings )
Video and pictures of our first day at Sproul Plaza.
Please join us today, Tuesday April 23rd,
for our Space on Sproul event, from 10 AM to 4 PM. Look for
the big white empathy canopy and a group of people having a
great time. We'll have dialogue, music, art, empathic
listening, dancing, frisbee, soccer, good company, yoga,
meditation, singing, and more. Feel free to stop by at any
time, and bring a musical instrument, or an activity, or
just bring yourself.
April 30, 2013, Tuesday: Sproul Plaza - Tent Setup
Please join us. Look for the big white Empathy Tent and a
group of people having a great time on Sproul Plaza. We'll have dialogue,
music, art, free listening, empathic listening, empathy
circle workshops, dancing, frisbee, soccer,
good company, yoga, meditation, singing, and more. Feel free
to stop by at any time, and bring a musical instrument, or
an activity, or just bring yourself.
Edwin will be on the lawn in Sproul Plaza, near Sather Gate
doing ongoing Empathic Listening and
Empathy Circle
facilitation with anyone that drops by. (More on
Empathy Circle Trainings )
We have set up the
Empathy Tent at Occupy Berkeley
in Martin Luther King Civic Center Park on MLK Way and Center.We're also organizing to set up 'Empathy Tents' at the Occupy
events around the country to support building a culture of empathy
and compassion.
The Empathy Tent is an open and eclectic space for people that value
empathy, compassion, caring, community, peace, nonviolence, justice,
etc.
Here are some project Resource Links.
Schedule for Tent:
fill out the time slots for your workshops, empathic listening, etc.
offerings in the Google doc.
"I want us to organize,
to tell the personal stories that create empathy,
which is the most revolutionary emotion." Gloria Steinem,
Transforming hearts and
all institutions (government, justice, education, health, corporations,
commerce, media, police, military, etc.) from being cultures of fear,
greed, alienation, suffering and violence, to active cultures of empathy
and compassion.
We can build a culture of empathy through connecting to our common
humanity, listening, dialog, conflict resolution and empathic action! In
order to empower citizens to take action, make sure everyone is heard,
create connection that is heart-to-heart, face-to-face, and create an
abundance of time and space for conversation and dialog to occur.
Encourage listening and empathy skills. Build the common story of what's
valued.
Contribute to building a culture of empathy and compassion. For
individuals or organizations to be a sponsor, donate, volunteer or to
add your services and workshops to the event calendar, visit the website
or email. EdwinRutsch@gmail.com
The tent is a a space for empathy
based processes like;
Leadership is about empathy. It is about
having the ability to relate to and
connect with people for the purpose of inspiring
and empowering their lives.– Oprah Winfrey
2011-12-21 -
Empathy Tent at Occupy Berkeley Eviction - LiveStream
interview with Edwin Rutsch
Here's a video I just reposted from a guy that was going around the
Occupy Berkeley encampment the night of the eviction taping Livestream
video. He did an interview with me and I told him about what we had been
doing in the tent. The video is not very good quality since it was dark
and was shot on a cell phone camera, however, it will give you a sense
of what we were doing there.
Empathy T-shirt - Printed Front and back - I ordered
5 of these. David Hazen ordered around 20
Here's the t-shirts we just ordered. David models the new
t-shirt
I
just got back from a Empathy Circle @ Occupy Oakland. There were 4 or 5
officials from the Oakland City mayors office and 15 to 25 community
members. Meeting was facilitated by Mutima Imani. Some people didn't
want it video taped but I taped some pre and post Empathy Circle video.
One of the people from the administration said it was the first time
they had been in dialog with people there at Occupy Oakland. Hope it's
the beginning of a series of Empathy Circles.
