EDWIN RUTSCH
An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process for practicing empathy in a small group setting.
The empathy circle is a structured peer to peer empathic listening process and is one of the most effective ways to practice and deepen empathy skills and a way of being.
BILL FILLER
An empathy circle is a process whereby each person listens deeply to, and is deeply heard
by others in the circle. Attention should be paid to mutuality, so that everyone feels heard.
CIELJA KIEFT
An Empathy Circle is a circle of people in which they take turns to talk, and listen & reflect each other’s words and feelings. (With the aim to practice giving and receiving empathy)
VARSHA SHAH
In an empathy circle
Everybody comes together, and chose who the speaker . the speaker parapardes.
This is the only place where people interpret me correctly. On the outside people don’t interpret me correctly.
I wondering how this can be the universal culture? And how can people understand this. How to teach this skill to everybody.. How to foster this.. It’s not hard,, it’s simple and how can we promote it. I’m slowly learning.
In the empathy circle, I feel heard, - along with Teacher effective training (TET)book. I recognize the meaning in the book. The road blocks.. What happens when a person feels or experiences with they get a roadblock.
EDWIN RUTSCH
There are many personal and social benefits of empathy and they are listed in other places.. An Empathy Circle is one of the best ways to develop and strengthen the “Empathy Muscles’
BILL FILLER
Participating in an empathy circle develops your empathic listening skills, or your ability to understand another’s perspective. These are excellent skills for any social situation from work to family. Since I’ve been practicing, I’ve noticed a softer feeling to things and am more quickly able to avoid or lessen difficult social situations, and am more ready to express my appreciation of others in concrete terms.
You can bring empathy to any situation. It does feel good so you are more likely to engage these skills. I am better at specifically appreciating people.. In a way that does not feel empty. Have a softer feeling. It’s always a tool .. a helpful tool that I can always use
CIELJA KIEFT
To exercise your “Empathy Muscle’ with concrete and easy Listening skills.
It’s an empathy work out.. It’s the running on the treadmill. There are concrete and the specific listening skills, that are quickly used and adapted. It is very basic, it’s just the basic for running exercise, to the whole
Everybody can do it. A basic exercise of funning. Compare it And should not
It has a low threshold.
VARSHA SHAH
To develop the skill of listening and transfer this skill to others. Moreover, be an inspiration and give an experience to others of being heard. To be a good listener.
What have been the benefits for you of taking part in an empathy circle?
What have been the benefits for you of taking part in an empathy circle?
EDWIN RUTSCH
For me it is feeling heard. I can express myself more fully. I can explore an idea or feeling in myself.
What is an experience or story?
It also gives me practice in listening to others.
When I listen to others and they share meaningful aspects of their lives, I feel enriched.
BILL FILLER
On the deepest level, it feels like I’m fulfilling a deep-seated human desire to connect with others.
We are social animals.. We are isolated now a days for various reasons.. When you practice empathy you connect in a very deep - deep seated way.. Like being on the bay and hearing the animals. Commuting like the whales.. We enrich each others experience.
CIELJA KIEFT
I could see the beginning steps of how Empathic Listening can be available to everyone. This has helped me in facilitating live Empathy Circles, as well as getting confident in doing an ‘Empathy Tent’.
What have been the difficulties for you of taking part in an empathy circle?
What have been the difficulties for you of taking part in an empathy circle?
EDWIN RUTSCH
I can feel stuck in my getting better at listening. I’d like to feel that I am getting better and growing in my listening abilities.
BILL FILLER
I don’t have any difficulties in participating myself. I’d like to see the practice spread, but don’t want to “evangelize” or pressure people.
Benefit of the structure. The benefits of it.
CIELJA KIEFT
In the beginning I thought I had to feed back exactly what the person had said and I got nervous to ‘not provide’ and doubted my ‘memory’ (and still have that when there are words,ideas, expressions etc. that I am not familiar with). I was used to listen to the underlying stream that a person wants to convey and help them staying on their stream of thought, so I had to consciously step away from that.
How can the worry be avoided of not hearing everything. ?
Even though Edwin said don’t worry, I still felt I had to remember it all.. It was a contrast in how I had been doing it. I am used to listening to the deep one. This was just the words an not the deeper meaning. The contrast between casual and deeper listening.
It was a point of difficulty. Why it was difficult.. It stops the thought process of the person’s thinking process. They have to listen to the reflector. So now I have to stop, and listen.. This is not about deep underlying problems.. This process is not about the
I see the usefulness of this basic initial process. I had to relearn that skill. There is appracialion for learning this.