Keep it Clean, Keep it Safe, Keep it Clear – Reethah Desai

An approach for accompanying people with Empathy and Compassion.

I will share my approach that I have been developing based on my own practice to guide me when I accompany people with empathy and compassion – both are helpful. They are not the same yet there is an essential relationship between them. Which do we use when, and how, in order to support what needs are alive in both the person I am accompanying and myself? And in a way that respects and cares for what is happening in our nervous systems?

After taking you on a journey explaining the approach, we can practice some related skills. I hope the approach may offer you some ideas to “keep it clean, keep it safe and keep it clear” when you accompany others in empathy and compassion.

Suitable for mostly everyone: you decide how much depth and challenge you wish to explore.

Bring a Feelings and Needs list, it is a helpful aid for the practice.

[Workshop organised in the frame of Time for Empathy 2024]

When: 8 March 2024, 11:30-13:00 CET (Berlin time)

How: ONLINE on ZOOM

Recording:

Most of the workshops during “Time for Empathy” are not recorded, so the only possibility to participate is to join the session. The sessions that will be recorded, we will make available to others if the quality is satisfying. We may also use parts of the recording for marketing and publicity across various media. If you do not wish to be recorded, switch off your camera and microphone for the whole duration of the session.

Language: English

Cost: FREE

Registration: 

To take part in this workshop, register for the “Time for Empathy” event here: https://www.empathiceurope.com/time-for-empathy/

NOTE: Register only ONCE for the whole event and receive access to all “Time for Empathy” workshops organised between 3 and 10 March 2024.

About the trainer:

Reethah Desai

My contribution towards a kinder, healthier society is in my journey to embody the change I long for in the world as a “living answer”. I am an accredited Advanced Restorative Justice Practitioner with the UK Restorative Justice Council and I also work in Conflict Resolution-Mediation and in relational communication. I am also a qualified coach-mentor, educator-trainer and facilitator.

I love integrating the strengths of multiple modalities into my sessions. My approach is humanistic-oriented, trauma-informed, and guided by science research, ancient wisdoms & spirituality, somatics & embodiment, creative-expressive arts. And most importantly enjoying fun along the way.

To my understanding of life and work, I bring: my MSc in Strategy, Change and Leadership; 30 years working at the grassroots and leading teams and organisational change; a systemic power-diversity-equity-inclusion frame informed by my lived experience of intersectionality and having lived in three continents; 10 years developing an intentional co-housing community, 5 years sharing NVC.