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10 Week Empathy Cafe Series. One Empathy Cafe on Each XR Principle
Short URL: http://bit.ly/XR-Principle-1
XR Principle #1: We Have a Shared Vision of Change Creating a world that is fit for generations to come.
Our duty is to create a world fit for the next seven generations to live in. Our hearts tell us a different world is possible. Our vision of change is sufficiently broad that it can contain a variety of opinions on how best to work towards that change:
“A healthy, beautiful world, where individuality and creativity are supported, and where people work together, solving problems and finding meaning, with courage, power and love. This will be underpinned by cultures rooted in respect for nature, genuine freedoms and justice.”
In this 10 week Empathy Cafe series, we will use the Empathy Circle process to discuss and explore a different Extinction Rebellion Principle each Saturday. We will have an ongoing dialogue about the meaning and application of these principles. Bring your questions, comments, feelings, thoughts, needs and insights. You can share whatever is alive for you.
We will address such questions as:
* How do you live this principle?
* How does this principle support or challenge you?
* How might this principle have a tension with another principle?
* Etc.
DATES
2020-04-04: Principle # 1: We Have a Shared Vision of Change
2020-04-11: Principle # 2: We Set Our Mission on What Is Necessary
2020-04-18: Principle # 3: We Need a Regenerative Culture
2020-04-25: Principle # 4: We Openly Challenge Ourselves and Our Toxic System
2020-05-02: Principle # 5: We Value Reflecting and Learning
2020-05-09: Principle # 6: We Welcome Everyone and Every Part of Everyone
2020-05-16: Principle # 7: We Actively Mitigate for Power
2020-05-23: Principle # 8: We Avoid Blaming and Shaming
2020-05-30: Principle # 9: We Are a Non-violent Network
2020-06-06: Principle # 10: We Are Based on Autonomy and Decentralisation
Harvesting
Gathering the insights.
Outline
0:00:00: Welcome Introduction
0:14:80: How to Empathy Circle
0:24:19: Empathy Circle Breakout Groups
1:46:00: Full Group Report Backs
Empathy Circle: Facilitator: Marta
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2. Participant Contact List
On Arrival, Add Your: Name, Location, Organization, any Contact Info you want to share with fellow participants.
Edwin Rutsch
Location: San Francico Bay Area.
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR Empathy Circle Work Group
This principle seems to be about a positive vision for the future and for me that means empathizing with the well-being of the future generations. What if we put ourselves in the shoes of 7 future generations? I wish this principle was more explicit about the importance of mutual empathy in creating a positive vision for the future.
2. Your Name: Karolina Kubiak
Location: Poland
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR Trójmiasto/Poland, XR Empathy WG, Regen Global Support
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x ) yes ( ) no
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
For me, it is about a cultural paradigm shift. About creating and disseminating an alternative to the civilization we live in. I believe in building inside the movement a regenerative community that is based on empathy, valuing the time of life we have, and positive mutuality. And I believe in spreading it beyond the movement to the society - or in other words, incorporating society person after person, piece by piece to the movement. This movement is for me a social trend that we may pass on to the next generations.
3. Your Name: Bill Filler,
Location: SF Bay Area,
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR Empathy Work Group,
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: ( x) yes ( ) no
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1? This principle challenges us to see the world with our heads and our hearts. This principle guides us to envision a wider global community that not only includes all of humanity, but the entire biosphere.
4. Your Name: Marta Neto,
Location: Cork (Ireland)
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR Empathy Work Group, XR Ireland
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x ) yes ( ) no
Your Name: John Bito
Location: Seattle, WA, US
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR Seattle
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (X) yes ( ) no
5. Your Name: Sarah Louise
Location: Oxfordshire, UK
Organization or XR Chapter if Any:
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: ( ) yes ( x) no - not without more experience first!
6. Your Name: Alfie
Location: england
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: many hats in xr
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: ( ) yes (x) no
7. Your Name: Dan Feldman
Location: Denver
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Working with a few XR UK groups, tangentially involved with XR Denver, also involved with Wellbeing Economy Alliance, VocalEyes UK
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x ) yes ( ) no
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
We are facing three different directions in this crisis, and two will go bad.
First, we are vectoring in a direction of atomization and balkanization at smaller scales. Individuals and groups are losing faith in larger constructs that do not fit into the group. For example, Hungary. In group vs. out group.
Second, the opposite direction of the atomization vector is authoritarianism; individuals solidify into a single amorphous unit. These are mutually reinforcing vectors. When atomization arises, pressure builds for authoritarian structures to fight back against balkanization. Both are natural forks. This tends to be how our system operates.
Third, we can use this opportunity space to travel in an orthogonal direction. In this corona crisis, we have an opportunity window to actualize them rapidly in about 4 to 12 weeks, which could create a new space that is neither authoritarian nor balkanized. The chance of this happening is incredibly small. The embedded structures and neural pathways are habituated to take either the first or second paths.
The grooves of the extractive and narcissistic system are deep. The crisis will make the grooves shallower, until eventually nothing holds things in place. The table is becoming very flat, on both a personal or individual level. Your psychological inertia, the degree to which your past choices will determine your future choices will drop to zero. Commitments you have made in the past will open up new possibilities.
The XR vision for “A healthy, beautiful world, where individuality and creativity are supported…” will only emerge if we build the whole with others and drop the nonessentials.
One of the real challenges of the third way is that we have been holding onto way too much.
You need to find the people and drop the stuff that ain’t yours. You need to find people who are holding the other pieces. The other pieces will fall into place. You need to leap through case studies. You need to focus on the pragmatic, for example, helping old people and teenagers, supporting supply chains and logistics. This keeps morale up and keeps you really sharp. You have to be focused on the hard core problem. This really works.
Then it begins to work. Recognize what you cannot handle; route them out to somebody who is better resourced. Make sure that everything is coming through there is of high quality.
At the top subtle level, they have been talking about this for a long time. They cannot deal with this on their own, the mystics and artists. Pull out nuggets of absolute wisdom from them. Distill the essence of their message. Melt out that which is not real. Pull that out in a constellation that is attempting to assemble itself.
8. Your Name: Ann Jordan
Contact info (email):
Location: Somerset UK
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR SW Britain
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: ( ) yes
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
I love that we have this
9. Your Name: Alex Calgary
Location: Calgary
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR Calgary
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x) yes ( ) no
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
→ Reflecting lately on the identity of the movement and what the role of Extinction Rebellion is in the larger revolution. I think the Regenerative Culture plays a big part! I resonate with what April said about the collaborative focus - and something our group spoke of: really Sharing Our Vision of Change -using actions to broadcast and share with our networks what our vision is; so many rebels can have so many varied perspectives on what our collective Vision of Change looks like. Thanks for having me :)
10. Your Name: Mel White
Location: Ireland
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: SOS and guardianship
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: ( ) yes ( ) no
11. Your Name: Andrea Zwingel
Location: Nürnberg, Germany
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Nürnberg
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x) yes ( ) no
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
…. how shared is our shared vision?
12. Your Name:Jamie O'Neill
Location: Ireland
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: XR Ireland
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle? I can introduce a session but should breakout group not collectively hold it?
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
this document is a nightmare to try to use, I'll pass
13. Your Name: Sinead Sheehan
Location: Clare, Ireland
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Regen, Guardianship
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: ( y) yes ( ) no
14. Your Name: Alexandrina Roca
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: no
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x ) yes ( ) no
15. Your Name: Amy Caitlin
Location: LDN
Organization or XR Chapter if Any:
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x ) yes ( ) no
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1? Im glad we are talking about the principles, i think we need to be regularly studying together, including looking at these
16. Your Name: Ryan Mullenium
Location: calgary
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Caslgay
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (y ) yes ( ) no
17. Your Name: Phil Edmondson
Location: Shropshire, England
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Global Support Regional Liaisons
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: ( ) yes (o ) no
18. Your Name: Jorge & Sylvie
Location: Mexico City
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Free Food For Future
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?: (x) yes ( ) no
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
Are there images and artwork emerging from this shared vision to clarify/crystalize and elevate this principle?
19. Your Name: Lou Zweier
Location: Northern California, USA
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Empathy Circle Team
20. Your Name: april griefsong
Location: scotland
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: xruk/xrscotland guardianship and visioning circle
Write any questions or comments you have about XR Principle #1?
For me, the alchemy happens when we share our visions of change in rich, deep dialogue
21. Your Name: Michael Schmitt
Location: Frankfurt/Germany
Organization or XR Chapter if Any: Regenerative Culture WG in XR Germany
Are you willing to facilitate a Circle?:
( ×) yes ( ) no
Plus 20 Participants.
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