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

CRAFTING THIRD SPACES

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