z Pauline M
TEAM 2: WED - Withdrew
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I feel called to join this community to design an empathic listening MOOC. Everything I read resonates with my values and my current practice.
I am a psychodynamic coach, facilitator and art of hosting practitioner working within organisational and community contexts. I have participated in ULAB for three years and have been working within a hub to develop empathic and generative listening practices within local government.
I am profoundly struck by the transformative power of listening at all levels of society from one to one relationships to whole organisations.
As a coach i experience first hand the power of listening to build an empathic container for the flourishing of the individual, thus facilitating powerful growth and change.
I see this at the collective level, having just returned from a 4 day training in Art of Hosting in Karlskrona , I experienced the power of deep empathic listening within a group of 114 people giving me hope that upscaling listening practices is extremely possible.
I have added my name and initial to the google doc, I hope it saved ok. If not my name is pauline meikleham, my initial PM and I can do Wednesdays 9am up to 1pm start PST, I am in the UK so that would be 4pm up to 8pm start latest.
I would love to be involved and have ordered the book so I can get more of a feel for the project
You have coined the phrase, empathy activist, which is what I believe myself to be so I will be in very good company!
It would be an honour and an inspiration to work with you .
Dear Edwin
I'm delighted to join team 2 and to be part of such a wonderful project. Yes of course please add my email or any part of it to the website. And let me know if you need anything from me. Do I need to do anything to access the call on the 9th May? Or will I be sent a link? I am hoping the book arrives beforehand so I can do some background reading.
I'm very interested in your empathy forum with politicians. I developed an activity in Angus council to support people to move from debate to dialogue. I used a game you may have played where contentious or powerful statements are made and people line up along a spectrum from agree to disagree. In this version, I used it to invite people to 'take a stand' and then practice listening and empathy with the position expressed. At any point, people could move closer to each other if they felt an empathic response it was very powerful.
Looking forward to sharing ideas and creating curriculum with the group, let me know if there is anything i need to do or prepare