CRAFTING THIRD SPACES
Practicing Awareness - Realigning Values - Strengthening Communities
When people of two systems meet...
Each person brings: their unique set of values,
their diverse life-experiences,
and their personal self-images.
their different worlds connect.
Sometimes interactions stretch our comfort zones in beneficial ways...
and other times they stretch us in non-beneficial ways.
DEEPENED
UNDERSTANDING
PAINFUL
DISCONNECT
COMPASSION
We invite people to connect with COMPASSION* for Self and Other
in a Third Space that is shaped by following three levels:
(*compassioun = suffering with)
1.SHARED
VALUES
Level 1: Commitment to connections that are rooted in VALUES
such as Mutual Respect and Intentional Openness*.
(*Intentional Openness: Commitment to continuously learn Staying Open.)
2.EMPATHIC
INTERACTIONS
Level 2: Practice of emotionally sensitive INTERACTIONS
that grow Trust and Robust Empathy*.
(*Robust Empathy: an empathy that goes beyond our In-Groups)
3.SELF-
REFLECTION
Level 3: Courage for SELF-REFLECTION
that Openly Reviews* one's own Human Condition and Personal Views.
(*Open Review: Practicing awareness to recognise our human tendency for Self-Affirmation.)
In doing so the Third Space initiates a Learning Zone
DEEPENED
UNDERSTANDING
CARING
PRESENCE
that supports and stabilises both sides.
of Compassion.
Rumi
If you keep your heart open through everything."
"Grief can be the Garden
CRAFTING THIRD SPACES
By crossingborderseducation
