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What are good themes and questions for Empathy Circles and Why?

Create a Facebook poll

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EMPATHY CIRCLE POLL

I'd like to see what topics or themes people are interested in discussing in an empathy circle. Knowing what people are interested in could help with designing the training. I was going to create a poll on Facebook with the following questions and possible choices. I'd like to hold paid empathy circles and it would be good to know what topics people might be interested in discussing.

- What do you think of the question and topics?
- You can also suggest some topics?
- What topics are you interested in?

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What topics would you be interested in discussing using mutal empathic listening in an Empathy Circle? See what an empathy circle is at http://j.mp/HowToEmpathy

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Notes To Sort

Autism, shyness, introversion, - how can people with these traits connect more deeply
- Empaths discussing their experience
- desiring deeper connection: how to create a deeper personal experience in the empathy circle

* PERSONAL SUPPORT

( ) What is alive: What is alive in you at the moment?

( ) How are you now?

( ) What is important to you that you want to share?

( ) What are personal challenges, struggles in your life at the moment.

Feelings

( ) Discuss feelings. How to express feelings?

Negative, Unpleasant or Painful Feelings

( ) Stresses, Anxiety, Fears I'm dealing with.

( ) Discussing personal concerns and issues.

( ) How to improve family relationships?

( ) What is a feeling of ambivalence you are dealing with?

( ) Personal and Inner conflict you are dealing with?

( ) Interpersonal conflict you are dealing with?

( ) Discuss peak experiences in your life?

( ) What are feeling you would desire to have in your life?

( ) Discuss painful feelings grief, loss, sadness, anxiety

Positive, Pleasant and Enjoyable Feelings

( ) What was a peak experience in your life?

Needs, values and desired Feelings

( ) What is a feeling you would desire to have in your life?

Personal Memories

( ) Describe each of your parents and your relationship with them when you were growing up?

( ) Explain how you became interested and involved in the work that you are doing now?

( ) Talk about a favorite person who had a particularity important impact on your life. What was that person like, and what positive effect(s) did they have on you?

( ) Describe an experience from your life that you think might be difficult for others to understand

( ) Tell me about a time when you experienced real joy, wonder, or awe.

( ) Who would you say was your best friend when you were growing? What was this person like, and what made them your best friend?

( ) Tell me about someone you know or knew who you think grew old well.

( ) What would you say are three life experiences that had an important impact on the person you are today? What did each one do that was particularity important or meaningful to you?

( ) What would you say are the three most important values that guide your life now? What matters most to you?

* EDUCATIONAL

This is more about learning skills or knowledge that is not real personal in nature.

( ) Support Circles for people wanting to facilitate Empathy Circles.

( ) Book Chapters: Discuss insights from reading a chapter in the book.

( ) How to deepen empathy and communication skills?

( ) How to learn to listen and speak empathically

( ) Awareness and Sensitivity to Feelings and Feeling Into

( ) We are biologically build and wired for empathy.

( ) How we defining Empathy

( ) What is a Culture of Empathy?

( ) Empathic Listening as the foundational practice

( ) Empathy Circles as the foundational practice

( ) Personal and Social Problems we want to address

( ) Benefits of Empathy

( ) Blocks to Empathy

( ) Defining Empathy

( ) Skills and way of being

( ) Connection is important for well being.

* SOCIAL ISSUES

( ) How to address political polarization.

( ) I'd like to dialogue with people on the other side politically.

( ) How might we build a more empathic world?

( ) How to address specific social issues, gun violence, homelessness, healthcare, war, global warming, addiction, etc

Cielja: Large subjects like

work,
health,
living,
travel,
parenting,
could also maybe part of it, that can cover many topics.

* CREATING SOCIAL CONNECTION

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* GOAL-ORIENTED

( ) support in meeting specific goals

* OTHERS

( ) Contribute to others

( ) How might be build a culture of empathy in families, organizations, city, states, countries and world?

* TOPICS PEOPLE HAVE MENTIONED

( ) Unity: Bob wants to discuss the topic of unity.

( ) Discussing Politics with Siblings: There are times I think I could use help discussing politics with my siblings.