2016-12-07

Discussion Notes Edwin/Gordon

How might we document the empathy circle and make meaning out of it?

• 1. Video Recording of the Meetings

  2. Note taking and idea taking by Silent Listeners

     1. Silent Listeners mute themselves while listening and record the conversation.

        1. What about sorting by category?

     2. Reporter: has responsibility for compiling, organizing and writing up meeting notes into a final report after the meeting.

  3. Need a sorting process like DF has. Creating a light sort

• • 1. Feelings - Empathy is about feeling into, so feelings are very central.

       1. Painful feelings - Unmeet feelings (needs)

       2. Positive Feelings - Met feelings (needs)

    2. Vision

    3. Problems

    4. Solutions

    5. Concerns - feeling of negative reaction

    6. Data -anything else

    7. Strategies

    8. Feeling tracker - what is the existing feeling at this moment.

    9. Tracking what matters -

    10. Silent listeners Tracker: share their tracking of the felt experience.

    11. Coming to deeper connection.

• 4. Participants just want the listening and connection.

  5. An empathic design sorting process.

• • 1. Feelings, met and unmet feelings.

    2. Idea design questions.

• • Brainstorming sessions.

Kathy McGuire

What stopped me from taking notes is I didn't want the notetaking screen to obscure the speakers and listeners. How does that work in a Google hang out? I guess I find all this note taking like in human design can take away from the intimacy of the exchanges, even if we are only witnessing.

There are a lot of subtle things including facial gestures that are all part of the bonding experience which I value the most. I am not in this for the generation of ideas as much as learning how we build community and Empathy among ourselves and then out in our troubled, individualistic world. That is just me. Others may be in it for other reasons!