Meeting 02 (5-3)

Links

• Google Doc Shared Meeting Page http://j.mp/2HPbAsF

• Chapter Summary: On Google Slide

Facebook: Empathy Training Design Team 1 - Meeting 2

YouTube: Empathy Training Design Team 1 - Meeting 2

Agenda

• 1. On Arrival Writing Question

  2. How do you feel right now?(30 sec)

  3. One minute silence. Self connection first.

  4. Share: Answer to Question (1 min each)

     1. Time Keeper?

  5. Your Review of last week's meeting

• • 1. General share. (1 min each)

• 6. Technical

• • 1. How to edit the Website.

• 7. Summary Review of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4

  8. Empathic Listening on the Chapters (5 min rounds, 1+ hour)

  9. Next Steps (10 min)

• • 1. Design and Document your activity. Place in Tool Kit folder.

    2. Who will do Meeting Minutes/Report?

• 10. Next Week Meeting Preparation

• • 1. Chapter 5 - Blocks to Empathy

• 11. End

Question: What would be good ‘on arrival questions’ to ask at future meetings and why?

Edwin Rutsch

• 1. How do you feel right now?

  2. Empathy means feeling into. So a core part of empathy is awareness and sensitivity to felt experience. Be it of oneself, others, or the broader surroundings and culture. Therefore to build a culture of empathy, it helps to become more aware of one's own feelings as well as be able to express them and for them to be heard, seen and acknowledged. Also for the team to be more aware of everyone else feelings in the group.

  3. Why are you taking part in this training?

We want to know why people are interested in taking and developing the training. Understand the motivations and needs.

• 1. What are personal or social problems (pains) that you would like to address with empathy?

  2. Collect pain points, problems and difficulties that can be addressed by empathy. It would be good to know what are problems areas that participants want to work on to address.

  3. What are you wanting to know about empathy?

  4. Where are participants interests in empathy and how can we address those questions.

  5. What is a meaningful personal experience you had with empathy?

  6. Want to gather the very positive stories and feelings that participants have. We can build on those. They can also inspire and energise others.

Cielja Kieft

• 1. How are you feeling in the here and now. Are you sitting ok? Anything you need to let us know or that you want to share before we begin?

  2. What are your expectations, concerns, wishes for this meeting

  3. Where you able to prepare for this meeting?

Bill Filler

What goals do you want to achieve after a class? My two, A feeling of being heard and an expansion of skills.

Varsha Shah:

How do we create a step by step process of understanding empathy?

How do we create a step by step process of becoming an empathic being?

I feel that I am coming to the crux of empathy..

My husband and I had deep and meaning conversation with lots of agreements, disagreements and introspection that opened up a lot of room for reflection. Some of the these reflective questions cropped up and some new insights were:

Context:

My experience after my 1st session discussing with my husband Kinil

• 1. I had a revelation that in order to be empathic

• • there HAS to be common connection to RELATE.

  • Having common feeling with no common experience.

  • There needs to be intersection somewhere.

• 1. I realized that my husband did not have right understanding about empathy. He did not even right understanding about meaning of relatability.

  2. While discussing with him, my husband brought up the idea of feeling which gave me revelation. He gave few examples (need to remember) of common feeling which I argued its meaning as compassion and sympathy.

  3. It also made my husband introspect about empathy and made him active participant. Good for me…! :)

I am interested in discussing this further… one of the ideas that I would further like to explore from previous class is: miming other place to come closer and feel relatable.

Bob Brown

How do we use our empathy skills?

Peter Przeradzki

• 1. Can you remember a time when you were too tired/overworked/stressed to get angry about something you normally get angry about?

  2. Can you remember a time when you were too tired/overworked/stressed to get happy about something you get happy about?

  3. How much are we in control of our emotions and willingness to be in a moment?

  4. How much are we in control of other’s emotions and their willingness to be in a moment?

  5. How do we deal with the question of “willingness” in the moment?

  6. Why is it important to develop “willingness” (or rapport) with an individual or yourself?

  7. Why does it matter if we have empathy? What does it look like to reach your goals with empathy? What does it look like to reach your goals without empathy?

  8. When would you be willing to not try empathy, and why?