Collection of Inputs and Practices for Empathy Workshop 2025
Input on Empathy (John) – What is giraffe empathy and what are obstacles to it?
Explore obstacles to empathy
Demo of one complaint and possible reactions to this complaint – (whiteboard?)
Then show the giraffe feelings and needs guess
Do the exercise with complaints and ask people to notice and share their reactions
- Silence in the Eyes (teaching video on empathy by Marshall)
- Noticing our Habitual Reactions to Complaints (List of complaints – interactive with group)
- Input – Empathy and Different Categories of Non-Empathy
- Ex.: – What causes our feelings? Stimulus vs. Cause (You made me feel, etc. vs. I feel because I …)
- Exercise – Receiving Empathically? (A-B dialogue snippets, to decide what is empathy.)
- Exercise – Empathy for Self, Empathy for Another
- Empathy when hearing „no“
- Four Ears – Jackal and Giraffe Communication
- Empathy in silence
- Take your time (video on stopping, taking your time)