2018-01-03

( ) Introductions (1 min)

( ) Intention: culture of empathy

( ) Empathy Circles Practice

Vision for the new year.

( ) Projects Reports

  • LA Empathy Tent- (Bob)

  • Radical Empathy Town Hall (Edwin)

    • Wed meeting Jan 3rd, trial run (Edwin)

    • Shifting Topic?

  • Vision: Culture of Empathy

    • interview with John

    • Empathy Tent Actions

    • Curriculum

  • Mark DeSaulnier Circle - (Lou, Dave)

  • Empathy Training Curriculum

  • (online and in person)

    • Video Intro to Circles (Lou)

    • report on empathy circles (Bill)

    • Curriculum developement (Linda)

    • Training Website. (Edwin)

  • Others

    • Article (Dave)

    • Frank Meeink Empathy Circle - call (Edwin)

    • James Damore Circle - (Edwin)

VISION OF A CULTURE OF EMPATHY

What are the top 10 aspects ?

  1. Relationality

  2. Common Humanity

  3. Mutual Deep Listening, Dialogue and Action

  4. Inclusion of All. - no enemy images.

  5. Mutual Support - support each other is spreading the vision

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Empathy Tent Actions

    • How might we frame the 'grievances' and 'demands' with the empathy tent?

    • What, why and how is the problem or argument and the demand that we have?

    • What is the rational?

National Empathy Deficit

The country has an empathy deficit. We demand that the country start dialoging about how to design and implements solutions to that. We want to have a dialogue with XX?

Congress Needs to Dialogue

The country has an empathy deficit and the Democrats and Republicans are not dialoguing and empathizing with each other and trying to collaboratively solve the nations problems and address the citizens needs. We demand that they start empathizing with each other. We are setting up the empathy tents here on the capital mall and will not leave until each congressional representative has had an empathy circle with someone from the other side.

    • Dialogue with citizens and representatives

    • Dialogue between representatives across the political divide.

Google Needs To Dialogue

James Damore was fired instead of being heard. We demand and empathy circle with him and the CEO or founders of Google.

BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) Refuse Fascism. Empathy Circle

They tried to shut down our attempt to build a culture of empathy and our empathy circle. We demand to have an empathy circle with them to empathize with each others point of view.

Mark DeSaulnier Empathy Circle

Said he would take part in an empathy circle and will not do it.

Yale - Bloom - Anti Empathy - Circle.

Yale professor Paul Bloom has attacked the value of empathy. He is using his credentials as a Yale professor to promote his attacks on empathy. He is refusing to dialogue with the other side. It being against dialogue what Yale stands for? We demand an empathy circle with Paul Bloom and the president of Yale.

Koch Brothers Empathy Circle

Dave's idea. "Thus, the Koch inner circle were preoccupied with the “empathy gap,” and now hope to do a better job explaining the “virtues of economic freedom and individual liberty to people who are struggling,” as another operative puts it in the Politico piece."