NEW - Online People's Assembly Facilitator Training -14 Feb

@Edwin Rutsch Oh! and we recommend Empathy circles as follow-up. In the limited time we have in our 3 hour session we only teach "listening" whereas my understanding is that you teach "reflective listening". Overtime, we need to offer lots of different modules with different facilitator skills into the XR community

Julian , good to hear.. .we practice empathic listening ie active listening. this helps with becoming a better listener in general. It is also for developing a more empathic way of being, or a 'culture of empathy'. so it's both skills and a mindset. We are working to train people in being facilitators as well.

I'd like to set up Empathic Peoples Assemblies.. Empathic listening would be used in the breakout groups of the Peoples Assembly. This would support deeper listening and give all the participant a feeling of being heard to their satisfaction. Perhaps we could chat about that some time?

I look forward to taking part in your next workshop!

Hi Edwin

That’s a great idea!

The PA circle can’t take this on at the moment though. We are thoroughly focused on getting our basic training out to all the regions and training up regional trainers of PA Facilitators. We want the basic level of PA facilitator in every region and local group. After that we can roll-out something more advanced!

Also, I think you are based in the USA, aren’t you? Our preference is for face-to-face trainings as PA’s are best face-to-face. We do an online training as a shortened substitute as needs must.

Hopefully some of our PA facilitators will do your online classes!

All the Best

Julian

NEW zoom training event scheduled for 14th Feb