Friday, Feb. 7: Empathy Cafe: How might XR effectively address and mediate conflict?

Yay Edwin!!!! Congratulations!!!! So happy for all of us, that you are doing this... YAY!!!!!

p.s. Have been introducing Empathy Circles to various places in XR... also just in small-group working groups. Sometimes people think it's just about connection... yet what I've found is that when we are connecting well, and understanding one another more deeply, we can get more effective work done, as well... yay Empathy Circles!!!!

Hi Rosa

We need to do a better job of showing and explaining the areas where Empathy Circles can be used. For example.

1. Community Building: For nurturing connection, trust building, mutual understanding.

2. Effective Working: creating a collaborative and constructive work environment. Like Dynamic Facilitation (aka, Empathic Inquiry) creates.

3. Personal Support: getting deeper emotional support for personal issues. Support for feelings of alienation, depression, grief, anxiety, fear, stress, etc

4. Democracy Building: is foundational for people to relate with each other for deep democracy to flourish.

5. Conflict Resolution: that is what the above Empathy Cafe is for, on conflict.

6. Empathic Direct Action (EDA): a new form of Non-Violent Direct Action. (NVDA) We will be holding an Empathy Cafe on this shortly.

7. Empathic Design (aka Human Centered Design). For anything that is designed, the designers need to be aware of the felt experience their designs will created.



Add any suggestions for how they can be used:

Very good point. Thank you so much for this

non-violent communication (cnvc.org) or empathy circles, i guess.

So, according to Carol Rogers, does this mean that women DO listen effectively, and it's just men who don't?

:-) I think Rogers wrote this back in the 60's when this 'Man' (as in mankind) term was used. He later apologized for not being sensitive to the the gender issues and changed his vocabulary in the 60's and 70's etc to be more gender inclusive or neutral.

now he might say, "Peoples inability to communicate is a result of their failure to listen effectively." 

Here is the video and report from yesterday's 2020-02-07
Empathy Cafe: How might XR more effectively mediate conflict?
http://bit.ly/38aAvnp 

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Empathy Circle 1.

JayB: My first experience a few hours ago.  It was extraordinary. Great to see more brothers coming through.  Nice. Uplifting people emotionally and spiritually, where you can express your thoughts and have someone reflect.  Really looking forward to hearing more of that. Big up to the floor. A new beginning again to fit in and cooperate.  


What I Like about Empathy Circles ― Cheila Rodrigues

My  personal opinion, you guys are rock stars to me.  What I just experience it was really, really amazing. The whole process of rephrasing what someone is telling us, without judgment, is a whole new process for me, but I was really, really motivated and looking forward to this.  I have my mind full of ideals that I want to discuss and share, and that's really good.

I feel that my country is so far behind on everything that we are experiencing here. The real talk between people.  I have a lot on my mind at this time, so I I'm digesting the process,  but I loved rephrasing.

― Cheila Rodrigues

 What I Like about Empathy Circles ― John Roff

I am impressed. I met people from all over the world this morning and had conversation that felt was meaningful, that was valuable.  It’s such a simple thing, it's such a simple structure, and I'm encouraged that this can be done.   It opens a space. I mean this is good stuff. Thank you for he way that you've held this space. It  encourages me. ― John Roff

Thanks Edwin :)