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Empathy Training Design Team 4: Meeting 2

Preparation

• • Read: CHAPTER 01

  • Review the Project Website, page by page to get an overview. Jot down any ideas, questions or comments about it to share at the next meeting.

  • See the WEBSITE TOUR

Agenda

Before meeting Write ON ARRIVAL QUESTION below

• 1. Start RECORDING

  2. INTENTION SETTING

  3. Building a culture of empathy: Each person to be able to authentically express themselves. For each person to be heard to their satisfaction.

  4. Share On Arrival Questions - HOW CONTRIBUTE

  5. EMPATHY CIRCLE to discuss;

     1. CHAPTER 01, Training Design Project or whatever is alive for you.

  6. Feedback on Empathy Circle practice

  7. Close

On Arrival Question:

Before or on arrival to the zoom meeting. Write down your answer below to the question.

HOW CONTRIBUTE:

How might you like to contribute to designing and building the Empathy Training ‘MOOC’?

EDWIN RUTSCH

I’m working on all aspects of the MOOC project. making it a central focus of all my work time.. 6 days a week. A to Z. Recruiting participant, making contacts, designing basic initial lessons.

Trying to set up a productive and effective framework so others will be able to constructively contribute to and enjoy working on the training development.

DEE-DEE STOUT

Writing copy

Part of empathy tent.

Not good at web design but know people that do. Son - does creative design. Get suport

Idea of animation videos

Dee-Dee ask son about it.

DAYA LAKSHMI

Be on calls to discuss the minutes. To discuss what works

Transcribing the calls

Online sessions. listening . holding empathic space.

Curriculum, building -

DENISE ERNST

I do feel like I can contribute to the technical components of teaching the skills involved. This is a regular part of my work and my life. I think the thing I struggle with is how inspire the desire to learn empathy or to express compassion. We have to go beyond “preaching to the choir” to engage others. I know that when I teach empathy to those who have been told they need to have it, it doesn’t usually work very well.

Participate in the vision .

DEBORAH KLIBANOFF

My contribution is questioning, exploring and discovering how we process emotions effectively and constructively with a language from the integrated mindful heart/mind.

My skill set is in writing, developing, coordinating, facilitating/training and delivering a group program/training from my experience in doing this for my own four, eight week and a 6 month corporate mindfulness curriculum trainings and retreats, which includes NVC. . Creating a clear outline, content , objectives, measurables, and analyzing its effectiveness is important for participants success, which my experience is in. I can facilitate empathy groups also.

Personally, my goal is to be effective in creating safe and empathic communication not as a technique but as process towards a felt understanding. I can work on this throughout the week, 3 hours a week is good.

Outcomes - objectives - from subjective point of view. - Personal sharing.

Blending object and subjective -

Note Taking

Person goes on and on. What to do?

(E. invite to do mutual empathic listening, Offer empathic listening to practice.)

We are in relationship…

empathy - client relationships. Vr. close relationships - more difficult. challenging.

Not about being neutral.

How to see the oneness. The deeper more important quality.

I can be wrong.

Difficult training. Hearing many difficult story

E Not only activism.. What is that.

E. empathy not neutral.. It’s empathic.

E. having an empathy circle instead of just taking on others stories. It’s a mutual relationship.

E. Perspective taking. - imaginative empathy

E. people who talk over one.. Asking for mutual empathic listening.

E. empathy is itself a powerful activism.

Activism - tied up in knots. Pulling apart the know.. What does activism mean to mean.

This project is part of the activism. This is one pathway.. It’s an unfolding process

An example of a way to be constructively active.

How to have a conversation. How to set this up?

Before people had a dialog but,

We have lost the art of conversation. Slowing down..

(set the ground rules? The empathy circle is a way)

Working alone… creating a family of choice. For being an activist.

I need a relationship. I want to be in dialog. Struggling with hearing the other side.

Don’t want to be in a binary.