2017-08-30

AGENDA

* Introductions (5 min)

*Agenda Outline

  • Empathic Listening Practice (45 min)

  • Report on the Berkeley Rally (15 min)

  • Rene - Training Development For Indivisible. (15 min)

  • Myrna - groups come to work on hearing each other, (15 min)

  • Dave - Empathy Tent Article for Berkeley Side (15 min)

  • Any agenda topics to add?

* Empathic Listening Practice (45 min)

how are you about the upcoming SF and Berkeley rallies.

This is a core practice that we do and build on at the empathy tent. We want everyone to become comfortable with it so that you can listen, give and get support, be able to facilitate an empathy circle and be able to use active listening to mediate conflicts.

Topics - Next Steps

  • Report on the Berkeley Rally (15 min)

    • Joey Megan Circle

    • What circles to do next?

  • Rene (15 min) Training Development For Indivisible.

  • Myrna (15 min) Present and Brainstorm

  • leaders and members of the various groups come to work on hearing each other

  • I had a thought about the escalating conflicts:

  • I wondered whether the Berkeley City Council would be willing to include us in their discussion on how to handle this issue. I am assuming that there has been and will be discussions about it. We can be in touch with our various Representatives. What I had in mind includes having various leaders and members of the various groups come to work on hearing each other, starting small and growing. We could, for instance, have one or more groups on one side of the political spectrum come at a time, before the opposing groups meet. It’s one idea, and maybe at our next meeting we could brain-storm on others?

  • Dave - (15 min)

  • Empathy Tent Article for BerkeleySide

  • Empathy Circle Dialogues Week - Sproul Plaza

  • Addressing Criticisms of our work

    • Listening and dialog is Enabling Nazis - Hater

    • agreeing with them

    • create a context - trying to understand fully what the other is saying

    • I respect your dignitary as a human being.

    • not to get someone to do something

    • The purpose is for understanding - settling

    • The means are the end.

  • Creating a training Video

  • Ideas for next Steps