If we use the body data, and our body knowledge,
and our body wisdom to increase that connection, to increase that
empathy, decrease the violence, we can have world peace....
So please join me, become an Empathy Ambassador too.
"Rhonda also leads Alligator
Mouth Improv, a four-person ensemble that draws on theatre,
movement, vocals, music and storytelling, all created in the moment,
often from audience input and interaction. The ensemble works
internationally to inspire audiences to imagine their lives
differently—seeing opportunity and beauty and strength where they didn't
before. Alligator Mouth believes art-making and community-making are
integral to each other, and that artists play a pivotal role in the
commerce of ideas and the engine of innovation and inspiration."
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"Rhonda also leads Alligator
Mouth Improv, a four-person ensemble that draws on theatre,
movement, vocals, music and storytelling, all created in the moment,
often from audience input and interaction. The ensemble works
internationally to inspire audiences to imagine their lives
differently—seeing opportunity and beauty and strength where they didn't
before. Alligator Mouth believes art-making and community-making are
integral to each other, and that artists play a pivotal role in the
commerce of ideas and the engine of innovation and inspiration."
Talk Outline
00:00 I am an Empathy Ambassador
see it as a path
what I know about empathy
Why is it I'm interested in empathy?
loving family
but starts with spanking
was youngest.
Defense mechanism against spanking-punishment - hold breath and pass out
feels others pain in my body
2:00 I liked friendly TV shows
family liked violence TV programs
became peacenik
organizing against war
4:00 - already against the next war,
exhausting making war on the war machine
hating the haters
peace work is about preventing violence by increasing
empathy
Jeremy Rifkin
internet more connection between people
Steven Pinker - study violence - violence is decreasing
7:00 increase in empathy - makes me hopeful
7:30 - what is empathy?
body knowledge
always gathering it, be
data becomes body knowledge
body wisdom - make life better
Acting exercise 1
doing acting exercises
audience feels the emotions via mirror neurons
what you see, you feel
connecting body to body
10:20 Exercise 2
audience stand and press palms together
separate an inch
can feel the connection
being aware of the connection
we all have the connection
If we use the body data, and our body knowledge, and
our body wisdom to increase that connection, to increase that empathy,
decrease the violence, we can have world peace.
What I love about it, is that it gives me hope that world peace is within our grasp
So please join me, become an Empathy Ambassador too.
