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I would like to:
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
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I am Denise Ernst and received your call for interested folks through Bill Miller and the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. I am also one of Bill's former students and actively teach listening skill and empathy regularly. I am very interested in what you are doing with the empathy circles and would welcome an opportunity to talk with you about the possibility of joining the team. I don't do Facebook so I didn't complete that step. Please let me know if this is something you would like to discuss.
What questions do you have about the empathy training project and MOOC?
I am mostly concerned about the structure and platform (as Jessica is mentioning). I think for development, this really needs to be set. The content is pretty much a known thing. Also, as I mentioned earlier,
I am concerned about how we might go about inspiring people to participate. It does also seem that we could have the same content delivered in different ways. For example, in the empathy tents, as a synchronous online program, one that is asychronous, one that is a combo of in-person and online, shorter and longer ones, etc.
We could have teams working specifically on different formats. Sometimes, I feel like we have too many cooks in the kitchen to get things accomplished.
Skill building program for activism, personal relationship, etc. It makes the task more manageable.
Example of training module: Explanation, Watch a interaction to showcase the explanation, Connection people to practice.
Denise has a lot of experience with Bill’s teaching and building training program. Start with small and concrete.
Creating teams to work on specific project.
Getting the content organise.
How do we want to attract people?
How to deliver the content?
What platform?
What are the basics practices?
Could have different teams delivering different modules.
Use all the available skill sets.
Most important thing for people to do during a training: to learn how to actually practice empathy. Just talking about the book is not helpful. Pairing people up. Having a way for people to practice the skills together.
Listing the skills:
Reflecting listening: primarily skill use to convey empathy
Each chapter is a skill
Design a training module in a training. Treat it for
How to pull people to bring people together to bring the skills?
Too many cooks in the kitchen.
List the specific skills that you see that are part of an empathic way of being (ie. attitude - mindset - heartset - consciousness)?
Which of these skills do you most want to get better at?
I actually see the skill of reflective listening, deep, meaningful reflective listening as a core component. The practice of reflective listening seems to help build the attitude and mindfulness needed to appreciate the other perspective. Of course, I recognize that this could be because I teach this way and I see through that lens. It is certainly not the only lens. I continue to exercise and deepen my capacity for reflecting.
( Put yourself aside for service.. Even self empathy is putting aside a false or manufactured self. To listen to true self. )
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