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text-align: left; margin-left: 2%; margin-right: 4%;\">\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><strong>Monday and Wednesday Empathy Circles<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 1px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 110%; letter-spacing: 0.2px; color: #000000;\">Do you want to work on developing your empathy skills?<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Would you like to speak and feel fully heard? Would you like to connect to yourself and others more deeply?<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An empathy circle is a simple but powerful way for people to connect through structured dialogue, speaking, and active listening in small groups. It takes about 15 minutes to understand. You don\u2019t need any special skills or training to be involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is primarily designed to offer an environment for active listening and creates a space where you can talk and feel heard to your satisfaction about a set topic or whatever is alive for you in the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You will each have a role in the circle and take turns switching roles throughout the circle. One role is the speaker who will speak to an active listener.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Everyone else takes the role of a silent listener during each turn and there is also a facilitator role who will also participate, keep time and help keep everyone in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Schedule:\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/events-list\/\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/events-list\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<hr style=\"font-size: 110%; color: #919090; background-color: #919090; height: 1px; border: none;\" \/>\n<div style=\"font-size: 110%; height: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meditation facilitates creating more space in life to focus on the things that are really important.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/blisspot.com\/blogs\/the-benefits-of-meditation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meditation facilitates a calm mind<\/a>\u00a0which heightens compassionate and empathetic responses to people. A study in Human Neuroscience explained how meditation could affect emotional processing which can create positive responses to negative stimuli.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3485650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3485650\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bc14cc0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" style=\"font-size: 110%;\" data-id=\"bc14cc0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-65e5994\" data-id=\"65e5994\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22cad0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22cad0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A few hours of training over the course of several days increased positive affective experiences and elicited activity in brain regions previously associated with positive affect and social affiliation (Klimecki.\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/meditation\/\">https:\/\/empathymatters.org\/now\/meditation\/<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><!--<br \/>\u201cHOW TO\u201d Empathy Circle Video by Edwin Rutsch:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.empathycircle.com\/how-to-empathy-circle\">https:\/\/www.empathycircle.com\/how-to-empathy-circle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RSVP:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/miaminetwork.org\/schedule\/\">https:\/\/miaminetwork.org\/schedule\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Contact:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/miaminetwork.org\/contact\/\">https:\/\/miaminetwork.org\/contact\/<\/a><br \/>--><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-544f978 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"544f978\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-061b8cf\" data-id=\"061b8cf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d263b77 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d263b77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>RE: Guidelines:<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8212;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The two main criteria in practicing Marshall Rosenberg&#8217;s NVC are:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Are you speaking and acting from your own experience?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">aka: Empathy is not about &#8220;fixing&#8221; someone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. Is your practice contributing to well-being?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">aka: Emathty is not about harming self or others (&#8220;Ahimsa&#8221;) &#8230;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If harm occurs accidentally, empathy circles can be used for repair work and healing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">QUESTION: &#8220;When should NVC not be applied for a reason of impaired physical or mental health?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ANSWER: &#8221; I cannot think of a situation in which self-compassion, self-empathy, and self-connection is not appropriate. ~Marshall Rosenberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Carl Rogers 3 core conditions:\u00a0<br \/><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1) Empathic understanding: the counselor trying to understand the client&#8217;s point of view.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2) Congruence: the counselor being a genuine person.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3) Unconditional positive regard: the counselor being non-judgemental.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[Listening] &#8230; means entering the private perceptual world of the other and becoming thoroughly at home in it&#8230; It involves being sensitive, moment by moment, to the changing felt meanings that flow in this other person&#8230;. To be with another in this way means that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values in order to enter another&#8217;s world without prejudice&#8230; In some sense it means that you lay aside yourself &#8230;. ~Carl Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Empathy is saying to someone:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to be a companion to you in your search and your exploration. I want to know, am I with you? Is this the way it seems to you? Is this the thing you&#8217;re trying to express? Is this the meaning it has for you?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So in a sense I&#8217;m saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m walking with you step by step, and I want to make sure I am with you. Am I with you? 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