Edwin Rutsch

TEAM 1: THU

TEAM 2: WED

TEAM 3: MON

TEAM 4: SAT

CONTACT

Director Center for Building A Culture of Empathy
- EdwinRutsch@gmail.com
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HOW CONTRIBUTE

I would like to:

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.

(x) Participate as a sample workshop attendee

(x) Read material, Show up and do the exercises.

( x) Co-Design Training

( x ) How many hours per week can you contribute?__ working full time on this

( x ) I commit to the initial 6 week project. (chapters 1 to 6)

( x) I can commit to extending to a full book series. 16 weeks, (chapters 1 to 16)

Comments?:

Skills

( x) I have the following skills I can contribute.

1. Empathy skills
2. technical and organizational skills
3. Social media

( x) Design Activity Lesson.

( x) Design a Lesson. (a full meeting)

(x ) Design and Facilitate an Activity Lesson.

( x ) Facilitate a (x # of weeks) Empathy Study Group

Visioning

( x ) Help articulate the Culture of Empathy vision.

( x ) Write copy. I write well and can help write content and copy..

Comments?:

Technical Production

(x ) Do Web design

( x ) Create video clips

Comments?:

Lead/Facilitate Empathy Training

( x) Lead/Facilitate an Empathy MOOC study Teams

( x ) Lead/Facilitate a Training Series.

Comments?:

(x ) Do Empathy Activism

( x) Facilitate Empathy Circles between people.

( ) Support circle

(x ) Take part in an Empathy Tent

( x ) Start an Empathy Tent in my Area

Comments?:

( ) Add Any Other Ideas:

On Arrival Questions

What are personal and/or social problems that you feel empathy can solve, and why?

Painful feelings of conflict, disconnection, loneliness, alienation, depression, anger, numbness, stress, anxiety, fear, etc etc can be transformed into enjoyable feelings.

Also, when feelings are disjointed, disconnected, chaotic or blocked, - empathy can be a powerful agent to integrate them.

Presently the social political polarization is something I have been working on addressing with empathy. I see that empathy can heal the divide.

We generate a lot of video but is it difficult to go back and harvest the ideas and comments. It may be more effective to be doing more writing along the way to capture ideas. Also, to have heading in the video of the sections so that we can more easily find the different topic and activity..

Empathy for Problem Solving:

Problems that Empathy Addresses

Would it be helpful to specify some specific problems the training is working on to address?

For Example

Political Polarization
Fear

Question,

What problems would you like to address with empathy?

Empathy As a quality of Feeling and a way of Being.

Creating a felt experience or environment.

*C10 AFFIRMING:

What do you appreciate about yourself and why do you appreciate it?

In terms of the Empathy work, I appreciate my dedication and perseverance in working on it. Because, for effectiveness and to make real personal and social empathic change, this is needed.

I also appreciate my willingness to step into the unknown, like set up the empathy tent, even if I have to do it by myself. There is a sense of pushing into the unknown. Maybe an adventurous,, trying something new.

Did world traveling like this after high school, leaving my home and traveling around the world for 10 years.

What questions do you have about the empathy training project and MOOC?

EDWIN RUTSCH

I’m curious what design participants think about it and what questions they have.

These questions came up in another team