Luiza Spiridon
Intention:
To get to know better how i could help people understand each other so that they could work together in building up a better life for everyone
Brainstorms
focusing on the group, creating a healthy community
use passion: have a mini conference where each one should talk (with passion) about something he likes
share an experience: dancing
having pauses (lowering the rigidity of time)/ enable time for “breathing”, eg having a tea
play a game: build up the community through fun / homo ludens
Intention:
I’m interested in developing my existing skills regarding empathic behaviour as well as learning new ways of helping others communicate and understand each other so that we could all participate in creating a better world (basically)
Lulu
Complicated when people know me/ caring about what someone who gets to know me thinks about me
Easier to interact with strangers/ one to one conversations change how I feel.
When I start to care about people, I am afraid that they may not like me
Personal nature of sharing becomes affected by an invisible but existing audience
I don’t care what people who does not know me think.
It is easier for me to relate to people I don’t know.
I don’t care what people that I don’t know think about me.
It’s harder for me to talk one on one. I then become afraid of what they might think of me.
this is what came up with Edwin,
It’s more than that, I have a feeling what other people think of them, I become afraid when I care about them.
when I care about them I care about what they think
becomes scary when it becomes personal.
I feel the pressure that I need to grow, and nurture,
For the others I don’t care,
I had the courage to say that
I still don’t know you so it is easy to be open
What are the aspects of the challenge that you already know a lot about?
It seems people don’t agree that much to the rigid structure of the circles, and don’t find the system based on rules to be very attractive.I also think that communication meets the most difficulties in human-to-human relationship. for some people it may be difficult to prove to the others that they understand. there should be a set of different approaches that have the capacity to better communication.
What are your assumptions?
People should first find empathy attractive. This could be done by empathic listening, or other smaller tools that would sustain the main core which is empathy circles. I think that empathy circles through art could be a solution to both lack of confidence regarding the rules and creating a substructure that would sustain the circles. Moreover, they could improve communication between participants in a way that addresses the soul in a more direct manner. It could make the whole process less stressful and help people get over their anxieties
how to make empathy an attractive concept at a bigger scale, so that people would understand their personal need to develop this kind of behaviour. how to transmit this information in an effective way
the will to want it.
What don’t you know?
what could get people to develop a positive will towards empathic behaviours (?)
04 Plan Your Research—1+ hours
: colleagues from school/friends. children.
Lulu: faculty of architecture
common understanding of what is good and bad/ right and wrong and rule-making that would help people protect this is what makes a society/community sustainable.
foster communication regarding empathy, give examples, more information
participatory process = inform+consult+involve in the process
05 Build an Interview Guide— Then Go Deep
What is the best thing you have never done?
What is the best thing that ever happened to you?
What is the best thing about your closest friend?/the person that you trust the most?
How often do you have the feeling of really being understood by others?
What do you think inhibits people from really understanding each other?
How comfortable do you find yourself with opening up to others about problems that really affect you? Explain/ Why is that?
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