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Incivility: The Root Cause Is Lack of Empathy

September 27th, 2009

From the Huffington Post, Lisa Earle McLeod, expert in leadership, conflict management, and how to get what you want without compromise, writes:

Outbursts in Congress, cursing on the tennis courts, and grabbing the mic from a young award winner; everyone is lamenting our loss of civility as more and more public figures continue to behave badly. To quote my grandmother, “I think someone has forgotten their manners.”

Making Relationships Work Through Positive Communication

September 25th, 2009

Dr David Burns is a cognitive therapist specialising in relationship management. In his fourth column, he offers advice on how to make troubled relationships work.

Got Empathy? International Day for Empathic Action. Oct. 2

September 21st, 2009

People who participate in the International Day of Empathic Action will help to build strong trusting relationships in their communities, promote nonviolence as a viable way of life, and establish compassionate ways of living together. IDEA events will directly expose participants to the power of empathy and the effective change it can have on local and global issues.

Some ideas for participation:

Call a local coffee shop – Coffee, Tea, & Empathy
At a school – offer to be an Empath for the day
Be an Empathy First Responder – offer servie to fire departments, police departments, etc.
Ask to work with a victim witness team for the day
Go to a nursing home or hospital – bring an Needs Card deck & play empathy poker with folks
Offer Empathy-To-Go in the form of a smile or empathic presence
At a nursing home or assisted living center, offer to listen with empathy
Go to a senior center, offer to listen with empathy – for staff or attendees
Make 10 phone calls to people you know who may need connection – listen with empathy.
Reflect empathy to everyone you encounter for the day
If encounter someone homeless – take them for a meal & listen to their story
Make cards of appreciation that clearly state how someone has enriched your life -Mail them
Partner with local NVC community to create an event
Contact your local Peace and Justice center – offer your service for the day
Invite various social action groups to come together to cross pollinate for peace
Read a story about Empathic Action to your family before bed

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International Day of Empathic Action is Oct. 2nd

September 15th, 2009

IDEA: A day of community service activities world-wide that are aware of each other to create unity and a world-wide understanding of empathy.

Vision: That IDEA brings forward in every state, country, continent, leaders and facilitators to host gatherings with an emphasis on empathy to celebrate, mourn, learn & practice empathy skills, create plans for empathy corps or empathy first responder service in their area.

Mission: To have skilled people available in empathic listening/connecting in all regions of the world so that we may see all beings integrate suffering to become free and fully alive. To have skilled people available in all communties to be “empathic third siders” to support peaceable resolve to any conflict.

Read more… a chance to make a difference in the world…

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Empathy in the Workplace (S.F. Bay Area)

September 3rd, 2009

A Workshop for Bay Area Non-Profits and Activist Groups

Would you like to increase effectiveness and connection in your organization?

Are you tired of difficult conversations and strenuous meetings and would like some manageability in your work life?

In this workshop we plan on exploring some basic principles related to empathic communication in the workplace. We are particularly hopeful that groups and organizations that may not have a training budget will send some key individuals to this event.

The focus of this workshop is to provide an initial exposure to the following principles and practices and to the inquiry about how to bring them into the workplace:

presence, even in the face of difficulty
clarity of purpose when making decisions or running meetings
attention to both parties’ needs in a conflict
providing feedback without criticism

We are excited to offer this training as part of the International Day of Empathic Action and International Nonviolence Day, and to honor Gandhi’s birthday.

Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Oakland, CA, First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St., corner of 27th St.
Requested Contribution: donations accepted

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Parenting: Empathy and Honesty with Teens

August 27th, 2009

Are there one or more youths in your life with whom you would enjoy:

Having the conversations you may be most terrified of having?
Sharing scary honesty: Hearing theirs and expressing yours?
Cultivating a relationship that embodies trust, appreciation, and mutuality?
Learning how to re-center and remain connected to needs “no matter what is thrown your way”?
Developing a capacity to “be with what is”, even if that includes having pain from your own teen years stimulated?
Creating boundaries in a “power-with” way that invites compassionate communication & wise action?
Deepening communication skills and integrating it in a way that responding empathically becomes the first response?
Releasing enemy-images that “fog up” seeing the beauty that lay within yourself and the youth you care about?
Laughing more with the intensity of life?

What is Empathy? – Free Telecourses

August 3rd, 2009

What is Empathy?

Learn more about the value of empathy & strengthen your empathy skills with this free telecourse series with Certified Nonviolent Communiation Trainers Catherine Cadden, Sylvia Haskvitz, Kathleen Macferran and Jori Manske.

Sign up once—attend as many individual sessions as you like! You will also be able to access recordings from all the sessions. Seven separate 1-hour sessions offered the following dates:

Sunday, August 16 9:00-10:00 AM PDT with Jori Manske
Thursday, August 20 4:00-5:00 PM PDT with Jori Manske
Friday, August 28 6:00-7:00 AM PDT with Catherine Cadden
Friday, Sept. 4 8:30-9:30 AM PDT with Kathleen Macferran
Tuesday, Sept. 8 3:00-4:00 PM PDT with Sylvia Haskvitz
Wednesday, Sept. 16 5:00-6:00 AM PDT with Sylvia Haskvitz
Thurs., Sept. 24 12:00-1:00 PM PDT with Kathleen Macferran

It’s FREE! Even if you are unable to attend the telecourses, you can sign up and download recordings of the sessions.

Click for More Information/Registration

These 1-hour teleclasses are sponsored by the International Day of Empathic Action (IDEA) and the NVC Academy, expanding empathy in the world on October 2, 2009. IDEA is the next step for Bridging the Empathy Gap, a proposal for presentation to President Obama at his inauguration, through Change.org.

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