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5 Habits of the Heart with a Side of Empathy
Join Us For This Lively Dinner Series!
Wednesdays, March 13 – April 17, 5:00 - 8:00 pm MNT
At the deepest levels of human life, we do not need techniques. We need insights into ourselves and our world that can help us understand how to learn and grow from our experiences of diversity, tension, and conflict.” - Parker Palmer
With a world that constantly impodes our hearts & spirits, we can find courage to move from a shattered heart to a heart that breaks open. This 6 week series explores courageous ways of being in community with 5 Habits of the Heart:
• An understand that we are all in this together
• An appreciation of the value of “otherness”
• An ability to hold tensions in life-giving ways
• A sense of personal voice and agency
• A capacity to create community
Empathy on the Side is based on Nonviolent Communication practices that help us develop a higher quality of connection within our self and with others. Empathy - for self & others - helps us keep in conversation, even when we're standing in a Tragic Gap of separation, polarization or dividedness – with that deep longing of bringing the best of humanity qualities into our daily conversations. These practices include:
• Compassionate presence
• Self Empathy and empathetic listening
• Listening to what really matters
• Power with – Partnership Paradigm
• Group empathy practices
In order to contribute to collective healing, we must also be in relationship with and heal our own hearts.
Each session will include: sharing dinner with others, self-reflection, earnest conversations, interactive exercises, collective empathy practices, and follow up activities to practice each week.
This series is based on:
Five Habits of the Heart Curriculum ~ Parker Palmer’s Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit. Courage & Renewal Touchstones® and Honest & Open Questions® are foundational practices that help us change our habitual patterns of fixing or changing each other that separates us from each other.
Nonviolent Communication practices ~ Marshall Rosenberg’s Speak Peace in a World of Conflict and Oren Jay Sofer Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication and Jessie Chu’s Group Empathy practices. NVC practices shapes our communication in ways that creates a higher quality of interaction - allowing us to move more deeply into each habit. These ways of being compliment the Habits.
The Cynefin model of Complexity reminds us that we are living in a time of great complexity, which rings true that the 5 habits are important guides for these chaotic and unpreditable times. How we listen and respond matters.
Come join us!
Disclaimer: This event is independently organized. RMCCC assumes no responsibility for this event. RMCCC was not involved in its design or execution and makes no guarantees, implicit or explicit, regarding its quality or content. RMCCC receives no financial or other benefit from this event; it is posted as a service to our community and to support others in growing Compassionate Communication awareness.