Is there any challenging experience you had when facilitating an Empathy Circle or other process?
Edwin Rutsch Q3 Challenging Experience:
How to address the issue of when people say, after an empathy circle, that they were not really heard. However in the circle they say they are heard. I am not sure how to best address this issue.
William Filler Q3 Challenging Experience: Groups in charged situations who aren’t lis
Susan Campbell Q3 Challenging Experience: Someone walking out in the middle of a session saying they don’t feel safe. Someone who simply has too much performance anxiety to repeat what was said.
Sam Kifer Q3 Challenging Experience:
I have tried to implement an empathy circle at the special education high school where I work. I have found it difficult to engage the students in the process, especially when the prompt is to simply “say what is true for you right now about how you are feeling or how you are feeling toward another member in the group”. Many students don’t have sufficient self-awareness or communication skills to articulate their feelings and point of view and have either said very little when it is their turn to speak, or have lost interest before a single round can be completed. I have come to the conclusion that I may need more specific topics and prompts for students to discuss but have difficulty generating them.