Implementation

How might Empathic Listening and Empathy Circles be used and implemented in XR?

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Activists practice in advance of an event

  • Use Empathy Circle for community building

  • Build trust and grounding in the practice

Grounding before an event and at the beginning of an event

  • Talk about how you feel now, creates connection, get grounded, community

  • Chance to express feelings like anxiety, fear, stress, disconnection, etc

Be Listeners

  • For Activists to listen better to each other.

  • At a meeting there are listeners, so people don’t feel left out.

Agree to us Empathy Circles for addressing conflict

  • Agree beforehand,, if there is a conflict, we talk it out in an Empathy Circle.

  • Anyone can request an empathy circle. Beforehand everyone agrees to take part.

  • Anyone can request “Will you reflect what you hear me saying.”

  • Practice this with made up conflicts.

At Event: Activists Listen to people on the Streets at demonstrations,

  • Shows you are willing to listen.. Not just a bully to talk over people

  • Shows you care about them.

At Event: Activists Hold Empathy Circles with passersby,,

  • Shows them you are willing to listen and care about them

A demand to have Empathy Circle with the existing powers (politicians, etc)

  • There is an Empathy Deficit: people are not connecting with each other, the environment and the planet.

    • The politicians, corporate executives, media, not being willing to dialogue with us is an example of the empathy deficit.

  • We demand to have a 2 hour empathy circle with X.

XR meeting - Some things we can do

    1. Hold weekly Saturday Empathy Cafe - can change the topic

    2. Can hold more Empathy Cafes for specific XR topics, training, practice, what is the need?

      1. Skill Building: How to negotiate strategies

      2. Personal support: on fear and grief about global warming

      3. Mediation:

      4. Bridging Divides.

    3. How to cross promote Empathy Cafe ?

      1. Get event of XR facebook events calendars