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Empathy Summit Debrief

Edwin Rutsch10min

Jonathan Gordon

00:00

Need to would you like to share with us your experience?

Speaker 1

00:05

Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Okay, this has been a very wonderful experience for me. It's been insightful, and of course, I'm feeling even more connected with the folks that I've been with, and more connected to the idea of the empathy circles.

Jonathan Gordon

00:29

Well, thank you so much, Alexandra,

Speaker 2

00:34

I feel inspired, connected. Heard I I'm alive and true, like authentic, true to myself and true to myself also means saying that I might not get hurt sometimes, and, you know, try another time.

Jonathan Gordon

00:59

Thanks. Well, thank you, Emily, would you like to share with us?

Speaker 3

01:08

I feel grateful and present and connected and Yeah, the thing I've brought up the past couple circles is sometimes a little twinge of sadness that everyone doesn't always feel, the connection that empathy Circles brings all the time.

Jonathan Gordon

01:41

Well, thank you for sharing. I hope I pronounce your name. Miss Sears Mel.

Speaker 4

01:48

Is my name? Emil Mel Sears, that's you got it? Yeah.

Unknown Speaker

01:54

Okay, okay, thank you.

Unknown Speaker

01:56

I enjoyed our empathy group. The people knew

Speaker 5

02:01

how to do an empathy circle, and they could all do the skills. So I appreciated that, and I appreciated the the space and the sense of presence that I received in our group. And just want to thank everyone.

Jonathan Gordon

02:17

Well, thank you for sharing. Sandra, would you like to share with us?

Speaker 6

02:23

Yes, I feel, well, of course, with the game and everything, I realize I'm calm here, and also I'm I feel my feet are more on the ground here, and then they were when I, you know, a few hours ago, when I first joined, I feel like more confident and more of an inner strength. So I feel pretty good after the whole seminar. So thank you for that.

Speaker 7

02:50

Well, you're very welcome. Tarsha,

Speaker 5

02:56

I feel calm, centered, connected and empowered. I appreciate being around people of like minds. I was initially writing down these are people who are really like me when I was listening to the speakers, and I'm so grateful to be around people who are similar. Want what I want, want empathy and want to be in touch with themselves. I want to be, you know, same as I learning language and learning how to connect with others in a very deeply authentic way. I really want that. So I'm grateful to everybody who's here.

Jonathan Gordon

03:46

Well, thank you very much, Cassel, I hope if I called on you.

Speaker 8

03:54

Cassel, yeah, I can't speak to that the sentence in general, because it's so very, so much, but the circle we just had was very, was very tender and vulnerable. And always want to hear more. That's just me, but I appreciate the people in it.

Jonathan Gordon

04:25

Well, thank you so much, Bob, how was your experience?

Speaker 9

04:30

So grateful for the empathy circle and for Edwin and his work and all of us who are here helping each other heal and be more human and more joyful. Thanks.

Jonathan Gordon

04:41

Well, thank you, Benjamin, how was your experience in the circle?

Speaker 10

04:49

Ambivalent, a mix of a mix of enjoying really enjoying connection. An awareness, mindful awareness, self discovery experience, and also some stress to like now, to speak in front of the group, or to doing right or wrong, to reflect someone so I and I see as opportunities to discover myself, because I became aware of something new about the stress I had. So I found it a wonderful way to bring with spiritual practice, inner mindfulness, but in the space of relationship, and I'm really enthusiastic for Yeah, it's something. It's another subject that was my experience.

Jonathan Gordon

05:54

Well, thank you, Benjamin, and it was so nice meeting you today in the circle. Thank you. Aaron, hi, yeah, no, when

Speaker 11

06:04

I go to empty circles, whenever you're afraid, afraid, usually afraid and a little bit excited. If they were spontaneous, like they were today, that was pretty cool. And yeah, no, that empathy cycle. It was good, actually, no, it was really good. I went into a lot of fear. So I'm proud of myself. I'm very happy with myself. Usually, I've been avoiding it for so long. And, yeah, I'm very happy with how it went. And everyone was pretty good. And, you know, they've done it before. I felt like people knew what they were doing, and I would absolutely go back for what it's worth.

Jonathan Gordon

06:45

Well, thank you very much for sharing with us. Sheila, are you here?

Speaker 12

06:57

Yeah, yeah. I'm happy that I joined for this discussion today, because I was able to listen to two nice ladies about their experiences, because this is my first time in a empathy circle, and I had one or two questions that I was not very clear, and I was able to find some answers. So I'm very happy.

Jonathan Gordon

07:29

Well, thank you for sharing with us. Nita, did we? Did I get you, or did you need to? Would you like to share with us?

Unknown Speaker

07:39

You got me early on.

Jonathan Gordon

07:41

Okay, well, let's go back to Becky. Becky, are you there? Okay, well, Bill, would you like to share with us?

Bill Filler

07:53

Sure, I really appreciated being with Sheila and Emily and Alexandra. Becky was in our room, but she did emerge from So, yeah, I and I just was seeing how people were unfolding their story, deepening their understanding of empathy and also, but in real time in an experiential way, which I think is very important learning. Thank you.

Jonathan Gordon

08:24

Thank you. And Kara, how was your experience in your room?

Speaker 13

08:31

I hung out by myself. What I do know about my experience in empathy circles is that I everything twinkles to everything that everybody has said right now, because every time I come out of I'm like, Oh, I'm so aligned to these people. I feel so heard. I feel connected, like hopeful and also, holy, processing. It's just delicious, isn't it? Well,

Jonathan Gordon

08:53

thank you. And lastly, Edwin, how was your experience

Edwin Rutsch

08:58

just checking in? Did everybody go? Everybody else went? Is there anybody else that didn't? Except for me? Okay, yeah, for me, it's very rich experience. It always feels hopeful, especially around I just feel the momentum for building this empathy movement, and also in our circle, or some tears. And it just kind of warms my heart when people share so vulnerably. It actually it's healing for me too, when you know others share deeply so very grateful for everyone.

Jonathan Gordon

09:28

Thank you, and I'm just going to make sure that did everybody get a chance to say goodbye and to reflect upon their experience. Okay, so for me, I just had a wonderful insight today. I just loved the speaker who put the draft ears on. And Bill and I host a Thursday empathy circle, and I think I'm going to enrich our empathy circle by getting a clown nose, a big red clown nose. And. That's going to be my signification, that I want everyone to be playful and have fun in our circle. So.

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