SORT TITLE: Block Role Play
TITLE: Use Empathy Block and Role Play a Dialogue.
BY Edwin Rutsch
DESCRIPTION
For exploring the different road blocks to empathy.
Each participant writes up their favorite road block and why it is their favorite?
Then we use Imaginative Empathy and Empathic Listening to do a role play.
The participant becomes the block to empathy, ie. they take on the role of being that block, and one of the other participants becomes empathy.
Empathy and the Block have a dialogue with each other using empathic listening.
For Example
Participant (A) says their block is
Detachment: Somehow detaching has been a way to deal with some issues. I feel that if I detach I can see a problem from the outside and will have more clarity about it. However, I find myself withdrawing from situations which does not feel good.
1). Participant (A) becomes Detachment:
2). Participant (B) becomes Empathy
3). The two dialogue with each other for a set amount of time.
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HOW DOES THIS ACTIVITY FOSTER EMPATHY?
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