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Martas Values Chart

Notes;

Others Values

1. Emergence - Marta

2. Trust -

3. Generosity -

4. Curiosity -

MOVING FROM --> TO

1. Separation --> Integration

2. Isolation --> Connection

3. Power Over --> Power With

4. Authoritarianism --> Deep Democracy

5. Commanding - -> Dialogue

6. Individualism - --> Relationality

7. Self Centered --> Mutuality

8. Shaming, Shunning, Detachment, Non Engagement --> Dialogue With Everyone

9. Closed/hidden --> Openness/Transparency

10. Isolation -- > Common Humanity

11. Indifference --> Care

12. Ethics of Justice --> Ethics of Care/Empathy

13. Competition --> Collaboration

14. Blame and Shame --> Mutual Responsibility

From Karolina's Women Empathy Circle

1. Safety and acceptance

2. Honesty

3. Authenticity

4. Openness and Softening

5. Curiosity, mutual curiosity

• All Feelings Welcome

• All feelings are welcome and invited to the empathy circle to be heard and empathized with. If you are feeling depressed, fearful, hopeless, etc. these feelings are welcome as are feelings of joy, hopefulness, happiness, etc. So a culture of empathy invites all feelings to be openly shared. For example, some groups may only want to hear positive expressions and any painful feelings are to be suppressed, however, in the empathy circle all feelings are welcome.

• Awareness of Felt experience:

• A culture of empathy has an awareness and sensitivity to felt experience. Identifying, naming and expressing feelings as a speaker, as well as the listener being sensitivity to their own felt experience and that of the speaker,

Foundational Principles of Culture of Empathy

• a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

• a rule of conduct based on beliefs of what is right and wrong.

• a law or fact of nature which makes possible the working of a machine or device the principle of magnetism.

Facebook Poll

Share Your Vision of a Culture of Empathy? What would a society, culture and the world look like if it was based on Mutual Empathy? What do you see as the underlying Principles, Values and 'Way of Being' of a Culture of Empathy? Select all that apply and add more.

People share the different values they see as being important aspects or facets of a culture of empathy

Some gathered so far.

1. Curiosity - Minter Dial

2. Accountability - Minter Dial

3. Oneness - Elif Gokcigdem - an appreciation of the Oneness of all living and non-living beings; and, perhaps the “manners” through which we engage with them.