What Does Reason Feel like to You? (Online)
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Edwin Rutsch and friends will facilitate an Empathy Café. After a short introduction, we will divide into smaller Empathy Circles of 4 to 5 participants and will discuss, “What does reason feel like to you?” Reason and feeling are often seen as being in opposition. Empathy means to “feel into” and we will therefore, empathize with reason.
An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue process that effectively supports meaningful and constructive dialogue. It increases mutual understanding and connection by ensuring that each person feels fully heard to their satisfaction. The practice is an effective gateway practice for learning, practicing and deepening empathic listening skills and mindset. In preparation watch this short introductory video for taking part in an Empathy Circle.
Bio
Edwin Rutsch is the founding director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy. The center’s website, (CultureOfEmpathy.com), is the internet’s most comprehensive portal for empathy-related material, including interviews with over 300 experts on the topic. The center’s mission is to make empathy a primary cultural value in the world.
Edwin started the Empathy Tent, (EmpathyTent.com) a group that goes to political conflict events to offer listening and mediation. He is a world traveler, a “seeker,” a documentary filmmaker and has worked in the computer technology field. In his travels, he has interacted with a wide variety of cultures and peoples from all walks of life and learned to see and feel the common humanity of all people on the planet.