Okay, here we go. I'm Edwin Rutsch, founding director of the Center for building a culture of empathy. I like to welcome you to this short presentation on how to take part in a basic empathy circle. So next, let's look at the step by step how to take part and empathy start circle starts with two to seven participants. Here on the screen we have four participants, which I find is an ideal number. There are four basic roles and the roles rotate among the participants as the empathy circle unfolds. One the speaker is the first person to speak to is active listener who actively listens to the speaker. There's the silent listeners, they quietly observe and witness and the facilitator who organizes schedules and hosts the circle. They also do the timekeeping and they have some experience with the process. assist and help key participants in the process. However, everyone has the responsibility to hold the process in the practice. So to begin with the facilitator will start the empathy circle. They welcome the participants. They lead introductions if the participants don't know each other. They it facilitator invites participants to give short introductions, for example, their name or their from something personal about themselves. The facilitator then reviews the empathy circle process to remind everyone how it works. They announced the discussion topic if there is one, even if there is a topic, you can always talk about what is alive for you. That is what is on your mind in the moment. And five, you can they set the speaker time limits, perhaps five minutes, for example. And the facilitator then asks who would like to start to be the first speaker. So at that point, the participant volunteers to be the first speaker, as speaker, you select who you will, who will be your active listener, and you can select anyone that you want. You speak about the topic given or whatever is alive for you. And so you'll speak a bit until you have maybe expressed an idea or two. And then you want to pause to give the active listener a chance to recap what they understand that you're saying and feeling. If you say too much, the listener may have difficulty in reflecting. As the active listener, you are listening to the speaker to get an understanding of what they're saying and what is important to them, you are giving them your full attention as a supportive companion on their inner journey and exploration. When the speaker pauses, you recap your understanding of what they said and how they feel by reflecting the essence of that in your own words. You can summarize paraphrase, or even say the speaker's words back to them. Even though you may have a strong impulse to respond with your own ideas judgements, analysis, advice and sympathy or even questions, you know, resist the impulse to do so. Because these common responses block the speaker from moving along their internal journey, you will be able to say whatever you want when it is your turn to be the speaker. If you don't reflect the understanding to the speaker satisfaction you they can always say it again. Then as speaker you check, do you feel understood to your satisfaction. If you do not feel understood, you can say it again perhaps in different words. If you do feel understood, continue sharing again after speaking a bit pause to give your active listener a chance to recap their understanding of what you said. As the active listener, you again share your understanding of what the speaker said and meant. The cycle of speaking and reflecting continues until you as the speaker do not have anything else you'd like to say or until you get a signal from the timekeeper. If you get a signal from the timekeeper, then finish up what you're saying in a sentence or two. After you get a final reflection, you can end your turn by saying something like I feel fully heard or something like that indicate you're done with your speaking turn. At that point the roles then rotate. The active listener becomes the speaker, the person they select becomes the new active listener for everyone. Having equal time it is good to select someone that hasn't spoken lately, but it is your choice. The others in the circle become the silent listeners. This process of turn taking turns in speaking and active listening continues for whatever time was allotted for the empathy circle. And this was just a very short introduction, the best way to learn the practice is taking part and doing it. There is more in depth material on taking part in an empathy circle and facilitating one at empathy circle.com Thank you for listening.