Opening Questions

Opening Dialog Questions

What are possible questions to ask to initiate the empathic listening?

Also, what is the effect of different opening discussion questions?

How do they work for people?

In the Moment

• Speak about anything you would like to.

• How are you right now?

• How are we right now?

• What is alive in you at the moment?

• How are you now?

• How are your feeling right now?

Exploring Empathy

• Why is empathy important to you?

• What does an 'Empathic way of being' mean to you?

Exploring Feelings

• What is a concern, anxiety or fear you are dealing with?

• "sound a lot like psychotherapy. I do not want to do therapy on line, especially with people I do not know."

• What is a discomfort or pain you are dealing with?

• What is a celebration, joy or positive energy in your life?

Exploring Concepts

• Where do you need support in your life?

• What questions would be good to ask for opening the discussion and why?

• What are the different energies created by the different questions?

Sort

• • How do you define empathy?

  • What does an empathic way of being feel like to you, to your speaking partner?

  • How did it feel to be the third person observer?

  • Does a third party observer help/hinder the empathy circle/process?

  • What's difficult about being empathic?

• What gets in the way of being empathic?

• What was it like to take part in the empathy circle today?

• As we study how to promote an empathic way of being.. does responsibility play a role?

• Anything you want to add?

• Did anything in particular work well for you?

• What do you wish was different in the process, if anything?

• What could have been offered to you to create more softness about the performance anxiety?

Here are some possible questions?

Open to talk about what is alive for you?

What are your intentions and goals for the course?

What are your thoughts about the course readings and videos?

Why empathy is important to you?

What is an empathic way of being?

Others?

Write one Empathy Circle launch question. Then rate the questions for how excited and engaging they are to you.