tEAm news #79 | 27.4.22
Welcome back to a new term!
It feels like we’re back after a long pandemic with new programmes and products kicking off this term.
There’s opportunities to get stuck in or put a new volunteer our way.
We’re keen to grow.
Dates
MOMENT OF PRAYER - Mondays 9-9:15: a moment to pause and pray for our work & team. (No meeting on Bank Holiday- next meeting on Mon 9th May) All welcome!
Link here (Meeting ID: 708 452 7633 Passcode: empathy)5th May - setting up 2 tents for DJ practice at the Barn
13-17th June: UCL Consultancy Challenge (Cam & Ben leading)
20th June: World Refugee Day (Refugee week: 15-20th June)
26-27th June: Wally Hall, Sevenoaks The Poverty Trap (TPT) day programme (also 0.5 day of Empathy Exercises)
28-29th June: Canford School, Wimbourne TPT (overnight)
30th June: Empathy Exercises, Sevenoaks School
30th June - 4th July: Desperate Journeys (2 room version), Sevenoaks School TBC
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We’re looking to assemble 3 delivery teams (Wally Hall (Sevenoaks), Canford (overnight), Sevenoaks School). Please indicate your availability.
To Come (yet to be confirmed events)
Empathy Experiment Webinars will be returning with guests!
TPT in Tunbridge Wells for Friends & family - practice and recruiting event (TBC - Hoping for May)
Empathy Exercises practice for Wally Hall/Sevenoaks School for team & friends & family (TBC c late May/early June)
St Johns Primary School: Empathy Exercises (TBC)
TPT: Activate Learning (TBC c Sept)
Sevenoaks School, TPT for Year 8s (TBC Autumn)
Peace Day (21st Sept) Handicrafts campaign
Climate Justice Week (Nov, TBC)
New bespoke repurposed bullet product commission
We have a commission for a new bullet made product with our partners in Cambodia for Reboot the Future. If you would like to see the background here it is.
Here’s a video that we made for the project about the items being made up in Phnom Penh.
Also check out the pitch page here (we’re going ahead with concept 2!)
Other Updates
Welcome to Paul Irwin! Coming in regularly on a Wednesday morning. We also have some newer people stepping into some roles for the up and coming simulations at Wally Hall, Canford & Sevenoaks. We’d still love some more - are you able to help, or know someone that we could train up? If so, let us know. Thanks!
Slavery. We’ve been thinking more about this issue and friend of ours Libby Sutcliffe (who co-founded Slavery Free UK), is hoping to join us for a future ‘Empathy Experiments’ webinar on this issue - watch this space.
Empathy Exercises is here! Following the old primary school programmes that we used to run, the research from the research group and work with International School in Yangon & Brentwood, we are using the term “Empathy Exercises” to capture a new programme that we will be running for groups comprising of giving the empathy muscle a workout. This year we’ll be working with an afternoon following The Poverty Trap at Wally Hall and a day with Sevenoaks school Year 10s following their watching Eli & the Golem puppetry festival play. We hope to run some practices later on and we’d love to invite you along.
What we are watching, listening, reading, attending, inviting
A round up of stuff we’re reading, listening to, watching and inviting one another to from round the team:
Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy (on audible)
So How’d you turn out? Blog by Todd Davis from former teacher at International School of Yangon where we first ran our Compassion Truth or Dare Empathy Exercise
Nonviolent Communication - Marshall B Rosenberg
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter Address (a 14 min sermon from 30mins mark)
And also
MJ Stevens (who helped us set up Desperate Journeys in Royal Vic Centre) has invited the EA team to a Fashion show fundraiser in TW to help buy a portable anaesthesia machine for Ukraine (14th May at St James Church). All welcome!
Ways to support Empathy Action
Volunteering -watch out for opportunities in Team News for simulations or ongoing work. We’ll host meet ups with updates over the coming year
Share the news - please forward, share any social media items to help boost our reach
Introduce us - please introduce us to any prospective volunteers, customers or clients… we’d value your help in these introductions. We’re only as good as our team!
Regular giving - We’d love to build a support base this year of 100 regular donors of around £10 per month to help us stabilise and build a more ambitious and bolder organisation. A little goes a really long way.
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