CRAFTING THIRD SPACES
Practicing Awareness - Realigning Values - Strengthening Communities
When people of two systems meet...
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Each person brings: their unique set of values,
their diverse life-experiences,
and their personal self-images.
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their different worlds connect.
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Sometimes interactions stretch our comfort zones in beneficial ways...
and other times they stretch us in non-beneficial ways.
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DEEPENED
UNDERSTANDING
PAINFUL
DISCONNECT
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COMPASSION
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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)
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1.SHARED
VALUES
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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.)
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2.EMPATHIC
INTERACTIONS
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Level 2: Practice of emotionally sensitive INTERACTIONS
that grow Trust and Robust Empathy*.
(*Robust Empathy: an empathy that goes beyond our In-Groups)
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3.SELF-
REFLECTION
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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
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DEEPENED
UNDERSTANDING
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CARING
PRESENCE
that supports and stabilises both sides.
of Compassion.
Rumi
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If you keep your heart open through everything."
"Grief can be the Garden
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CRAFTING THIRD SPACES
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