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Promoting/marketing the empathy circle practice.
How might we show the value of the empathy work we are doing?
I want to find a problem that we can address with the empathy circle to demonstrate the value of mutual empathic listening.
Empathy circles can be beneficial in many areas of our lives.
Families - it can help family members
Personal Support - talking about personal pains, discomforts, problems, celebrations,
Work -
School -
Politics -
etc,
etc
There is growing political polarization in the country. It's moving in a dangerous direction. This is a space that we can model the empathy circle for fostering mutual listening and understanding between the different sides. It could generate a lot of publicity and an audience. This might generate demand for empathy circle facilitation in the political arena and other areas as well.
We'd like to choose the political area to model what we do.
The listening Well Book ends with the exercise of going to listen to people on the other side of the political spectrum. "15. Listening Well in Conflict"
We can move up the political hierarchy of politicians, activists, media and pundits, etc.
There are people with large followings, if we can get them to take part in empathy circles, we can model the process and way of being with them. People who watch it can learn the process by watching it. We did this with the Joey and Megan empathy circle that had 5,000 views.
We are working with the empathy tent in this area as well.
We are going to Politicon to hold empathy circles as well.
How might we host empathy circles between political groups?
We can do it online with How Might We Bridge the Political Divides? (Empathy Circle)