Breakout Room

For Trainees:

One task of doing the training is to facilitate one of the breakout rooms.

This consists of 1 trainer with 3 participants

Session Overview

• Session 1: Empathy Circle. In Session 1 you will just facilitate a standard Empathy Circle on the topic of:

• Session 2, 3, 4: Empathy Circle. Each participant will facilitate a short empathy circle. Each trainer has been structuring this a bit differently. It's up to you to use the approach you find best.

Approach 1: Participants Facilities full Empathy Circle with 5 minute feedback at the end.

Session 2 

Process 1: Overall time: About 1 Hour, 30 min.

• Each participant holds a 25 minute empathy circle and has a 5 min feedback debrief on how the circle went. (30 min total)

• Participant;  

  • give the "How To Take Part in an Empathy Circle" instructions,

  •  set the topic, 

  • set the time: (should be 3 minutes)

  • and facilitate the Empathy Circle.  

• Usually it takes about 5 minutes to present the How To. Then there is 20 minutes for the circle. at 3 min per turn, that is about 6 speaking turns.

 Session 3 and 4

• It is the came as session 1 but ask how much, if any challenge the participant wants.

• a scale of 1 to 10.

Breakout Room Outline

• Trainer Introduction

• Participant 1

  • (25 min) How to Empathy Circle  

  • Set topic:

  • Set Time Limit: 3 min

  • Set Challenge Level: 0 to 10 

  • Facilitate Empathy Circle

  • (5 min) Debrief

• Participant 2

• Participant 3

• Overall Debrief: 5 min

Approach 2:

Breakout Room Outline

• Trainer Introduction

• How to Empathy Circle  

  • Participant 1

  • Participant 2

  • Participant 3

• Facilitate Empathy Circle

  • Participant 1

  • Participant 2

  • Participant 3

• Overall Debrief: 5 min