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
