Empathy Circles are a Gateway Practice
Empathy Circles are a Gateway Practice to other empathy building processes. How to they related. By practicing in a empathy circle it prepares you for many other processes. Let's show how that works here. That is becouse each of these processes use empathic listening as a core component
Listening
learn to listen to people better
is a practice.
Therapy
Core to therapy,
Empathy Circle Facilitation
learn to facilitate and hold empathy circles.
Nonviolent Communications/Compassionate Communication (NVC)
Team Building
Empathy Circles can be a step toward forming effective teams.
Imago Relationships
Conflict Resolution and Mediation
Restorative Empathy Circles
Mediation
Restorative Circles
Restorative Justice
The facilitator does the empathic listening.
Empathic Design (Human-Centered Design, Design Thinking)
Listening to the people you are designing for
Team Building.
"The Art of Hosting is a highly effective way of harnessing the collective wisdom and self-organizing capacity of groups of any size. Based on the assumption that people give their energy and lend their resources to what matters most to them – in work as in life – the Art of Hosting blends a suite of powerful conversational processes to invite people to step in and take charge of the challenges facing them."
Each of the methodologies used as part of the Art of Hosting has a powerful question at its core.
THE CIRCLE WAY
WORLD CAFÉ
OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
Action learning
Collective mind-mapping
Collective Story Harvest
ProAction Café
Graphic Facilitation
Acting and Improv Exercises
Role Playing
Meditation and Mindfulness
Learning Teams