09.04 2a

SUBJECT:  

COHORT 9.B: Session 2 Assignments: 1). Survey  2). Facilitate Circle 3). Buddy Call  4). How To  5). Promote Cohort

Greetings

Here are assignments to do before the next Session

1. Fill Out Session Feedback Survey   

Please submit feedback regarding the Empathy Circle Facilitator Training Session that you have just completed. Post any questions and we try to address them in the beginning of the next Session.

http://bit.ly/Cohort9B-Feedback

Our top Values

2. Hold an Empathy Circle with Family or Friends.

Try to facilitate an Empathy Circle with family, friends, etc. before the next Session. You just need to find 3 more participants. Sometimes it is hard to get them to take part. One way is to say you have this assignment for a workshop and it would be a big help to you if they took part.

> Report back at the next Session how it went?

Share your approach for getting participants to take part and any challenges.

3. Empathy Buddy Call.

Your Empathy Buddy Call: Facilitator Community and Mutual Support 

For more on support see, http://j.mp/EmpathyBuddy

Part of being an Empathy Circle facilitator is to be part of a community and to have mutual support with other facilitators. You can support each other when you host Empathy Circles, Cafes, and other projects. As a facilitator, it is important to have as much personal support as possible.

We have paired you up with someone else in the training Cohort. (Every week we will pair you with a different participant.) Between now and the next Session, connect (email) with that person. Schedule a 30 minute mutual support call on Zoom or Skype, etc.  Feel free to do it longer if you have the time and inclination. (If scheduling doesn’t work for this time, don’t worry about it. Just do your best.)

In the call:

Person 1 gets 15 minutes to talk about their experience in the training while Person 2 empathically listens.

Talk about:

•  What is your experience so far in the training?

•  What are your expectations of the training, etc.?

• Or just talk about what is alive for you?

Then switch roles and Person 2 talks for 15 minutes and Person 1 empathically listens.

> Report back at the next Session how it went?

Your Empathy Buddies

If you have trouble connecting with your empathy buddy, you can check if our floater has time for a buddy call. Floater: Erin Kirwin   erin@erinkirwin.com 

4.  Giving the Empathy Circle How To.

Next Week you will give the basic instructions for How to Take Part in an Empathy Circle. You can review them here.

https://sites.google.com/site/ecftrainings/references/how-to-circle

5.   Invite Friends to Take Part in Cohort 9.B.

You can help grow the empathy movement. We ask Participants, Trainees and Trainers to help promote this Cohort Series so that we can keep it full and growing from Cohort to Cohort.  

We want to keep this cohort series going especially with the Pandemic Professors.

Review this page.  https://sites.google.com/site/ecftrainings/references/promotion 

> Report back at the next Session how it went?

Warmly,

Edwin