Empath

Mastery Week 1 Course Material

Empath Mastery Course Content

Week 1: Understanding Your Nature as an Empath

Introduction and orientation to the course
Framework—What is the empath evolution?
Understanding your nature as an empath
What is an empath?
The history of empathic development
Coping strategies empaths typically use (and why they don’t work)
Identifying your empathic traits, challenges, and gifts
Calling on our Inner Healer
Allying with the Unseen world

Week 2: Discernment and Boundaries for Empaths

Discovering what is yours and what isn’t
Embodiment
Dialogue
Hone your senses
Develop your code
Boundaries
Containment boundaries vs. protective boundaries
Underbounded and overbounded boundary styles
Right responsibility
Why boundaries can be a trap
Energetic boundary practices
Befriending our Inner Critic

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Week 3: Being in Your Body—Energetic-Sovereignty, Embodiment, Nervous
System Regulation, and Taking Up Your Space

The neurobiology of being an empath (empathic distress vs. compassion)
Grounding and embodiment practices
Self-regulation and somatic practices for release and regulation
What is energetic sovereignty and how to practice it
Energetic hygiene and energy clearing practices
Somatic Soul Retrieval—Calling ourselves back home
Filling up with the Light
Gratitude as neuroprotection

Week 4: Shadow Work for Empaths

Radical self-honesty: What are the patterns that no longer serve?
The danger of running our gifts through our wounds
Discovering your Empath shadow
Identity structures
Vows
Unconscious agreements
Energetic habits that no longer work

Week 5: Shadow Work for Empaths cont.

Empath parts work—understanding the motivation behind the patterns
Shadow alchemy and liberation practices—transforming the patterns that no longer
serve
Self-designed ceremony to release the old contracts
Re-wiring your energetic habits
Writing the new contract
Celebration

Week 6: Developing your Spiritual Allies/Becoming the light

Where do we locate the Divine?
Healing our relationship with the Divine
Finding our Spiritual Allies
Decoding the energetic signatures of our Spiritual Allies (guided meditation)
Aligning with Source
Practicing Trust
Following our inner guidance—trust walk practice

Week 7: Light Work: What are your Empathic Gifts?

Identifying your particular empathic gifts
Guided meditation into your True Nature

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Claiming our belonging ceremony
Discovering and embodying your personal myth
Raising our vibration—gratitude practice

Week 8: Light Work cont.—Empathing in Service of the Earth and Humanity

How do empaths serve if we are not carrying the shadow?
Holding center
Holding space
Priest(ess)ing
Being the Blessing
Channeling the earth
Helping others to heal
The power of the group field to harness energy and manifest prayers
Guided meditation to learn how your gifts work
Putting your gifts into practice

Week 9: Integration and Completion

Retrospective—harvesting the blessings
Somatic Appreciative Inquiry practice
Celebrations
Areas of continued growth
Action plan
Creating practices for integration (daily routine)


My prayer is that you walk away from this course

§ With a deeper understanding of your nature as an empath
§ With a clearer sense of what it is that is yours and what isn’t
§ With more capacity to live as an embodied, empowered empath in the world
§ In less empathic distress and more compassion for yourself and others
§ Empowered in relationship to your shadow material as an empath
§ With more trust in yourself, your intuition, your gifts
§ Feeling hopeful regarding your gifts and your place in world
§ Inspired to go deeper on your own path of developing mastery
§ With a greater sense of community and tribe

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How to Get the Most out of This Training

• As a learner, you will get out of the training what you put into it. Where you put
your intention and attention will directly impact what grows and blossoms. So be
on as many calls as feels right, do as much of the homework that you can, meet
with your accountability partners if that feels good to you, use our facebook
forum as a source of interaction, and ask questions. Or, if all of that feels totally
overwhelming, do as little as you can to stay on track and go back later and do the
rest. <3 Listen to yourself above all else.

• We all come to this group with different past experiences and trainings. Stay
open. Even if you feel like you “know” something, allow yourself to see it, feel it,
and experience it with beginner’s mind.

• Lead with curiosity (one of the empath’s gifts!). Hold a stance of curiosity instead
of judgment. Curiosity invites intimacy with what is.

• Practice a high level of willingness to see yourself honestly. Empaths tend to
protect against shame, seeing ourselves as bad and flawed and then doing what
we can to avoid that feeling. Instead, approach yourself as if “everything is a
confused attempt at love.” Every part of you has done the best it could in an
attempt to protect you. Honor all of who you are and be willing to grow.

• There are many different ways of knowing including physical seeing, felt sense
awareness, cognitive knowing, intuitive knowing, imaginable knowing, mythic
tracking, etc. Practice tuning into these different channels and inviting
information from these different pathways as often as you can.

• Track your “spiritual envy” and comparing mind and use it as an opportunity to
say, “yes” to your own particular unique gifts.

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• Practice agency—knowing what you need, honoring your needs, asking for your
needs to be met (vs. overriding and resenting).

• Orient to the “light”—gratitude, appreciation, grace, miracles—what is working
vs. what isn’t working. This is not spiritual bypassing, it is neural-retraining for
empaths. It is natural, when we are in empathic distress, or a threat response, to
scan for danger. “Danger” might include what the instructor is “doing wrong,”
what you are doing wrong, what the person who commented on Facebook in
response to your post is doing wrong, etc. Instead, practice looking for “what’s
right.” This doesn’t mean overriding your own discernment. It does mean
changing the story of separation. This one practice can change your life.

• Practice “energetic sovereignty” and energetically connecting directly to Source
instead of each other or me.

• Respect each other’s sovereignty—see each other as whole, gifted, powerful, vs.
someone who needs to be saved. See each other in our wholeness. We are all in
this evolution together, we are each others’ allies in growth, and none of us can
do this alone. We are co-evolving and co-creating the new way.

• Above all else, trust yourself! Listen to your inner knowing. Use this training as a
living laboratory to practice being who you really are. There are no mistakes, and
there is no way to get it wrong. And there is so much support here for us. Be
yourself and the rest will follow.

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Empath Evolution

Untrained Empath Traits Evolving Empath Traits

Energetic Traits Energetic Traits
Carries the suffering of the world in their Honors the suffering and lets it go
body and energy field
Is weighted down by pain and suffering Keeps their system open and fluid, is
able to be a light for others
Leaves the body and dwells in the Is able to access “relative safety” and
mental body (or energetic realms) for return to their bodies
safety
Absorbs others’ energy and looses center Comes back to center, practices
or self-abandons by unconsciously sovereignty, stays in their own space
projecting into others’ spaces
Cords to others, wraps their energy body Practices energetic sovereignty
around others, or projects consciousness
into others’ spaces
Picks up and holds onto entities and Employs good energetic hygiene, resting
foreign energy in their own essence
Is strongly focused on entities or foreign Understands that foreign energy is a part
energies of life, recognizes it when it is there and
clears it, then moves on
Is often in hypervigalence when around Is able to modulate their threat response
others, scanning for threat and danger so experiences more safety while
employing healthy discernment when
necessary
Lives in threat response—often tracking Lives in a more resilient nervous system,
for what’s wrong, what’s missing, and is able to find a balance between healthy

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what’s not ok in self and others critique and appreciation, gratitude, and
connectedness

Self and Identity Self and Identity
Sees empathic nature as a liability Sees empathic nature in its wholeness.
Understands that being an empath
includes challenges, responsibilities, and
gifts.
Doesn’t know what they feel or need, Is self-honoring, recognizing, listening to,
because they are disconnected from and validating their own needs.
their bodies or overwhelmed by other’s
needs
Rejects their own pain and suffering Has a loving relationship with their own
because it feels too overwhelming to wounding, learns how to stay in their
feel. This may look like dissociation, own body and turn towards their
avoidance, disconnection, distraction, experience instead of away. Practices
numbing, spiritual bypassing, etc. inhabiting themselves.
Sees self as fragile or weak Views self as sensitive and honors that
sensitivity as a type of strength with an
evolutionary advantage

Relationship to Others Relationship to Others
Overrides their own needs in service of Honors their own needs and practices
others’ needs advocating for themselves.
Or puts their needs first all the time and Has a healthy balance between honoring
becomes overly self-focused (eggshell their own needs and the needs of others
effect)
Is in “empathic distress” and has no Is able to be compassionate towards self
space for compassion for self or other and other
Sees self as having less power than Has a healthy understanding of shared
others because of their empathicness, power
placing themselves in the one down
position
Views themselves as a victim and walls Views themselves as whole takes
off or overrides and resents. responsibility for tending to the “care
and feeding” of their systems.
Understands that this requires work and
is willing to do take responsibility of
their empathic nature.
Tries to connect with others through the Connects with others through their love.
wounds (trying to get seen in their Has a healthy inner parent on board to
suffering, and handing over the inner give themselves the love that the inner
child to others to try and get childhood child needs.
needs met)
Often merges with others Practices healthy energetic and

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(underbounded) or walls off behavioral boundaries
(overbounded)
Has shaky containment and protection Practices healthy energetic and
boundaries behavioral boundaries

Relationship to Gifts Relationship to Gifts and Purpose
Feels too overwhelmed to access their Honors their nature, practices self-care
gifts, resents being an empath, and feels as an act of love, and is able to access
hopeless and offer their gifts
Heals everyone all the time, runs their Has appropriate boundaries, offering
gifts through their wounds, uses their their gifts in appropriate ways in
gifts to “earn” love or connection situations where there’s a clear
agreement in place.
Is bogged down in pain, suffering, and Lives in wholeness. Shines their light.
woundedness (others and their own) Amplifies their gifts.

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What is an Empath?

Empath = One whose nervous system and energy body are uniquely designed to
merge with and feel the emotions of another, and merge with and serve as a conduit
for the Divine (Source/Love/etc.).

Otherwise known as light bearer, shadow magnet, lightening rod, conductor of
universal energies, transformer, transmuter, catalyst, and highly sensitive being.

The word empathy comes from the Greek—“em” meaning “within,” and “pathos”
meaning “feeling.” So empathy is the ability to feel the feelings of another
within ourselves.

Empaths’ fields are open systems. We seem to lack the energetic (and sometimes
psychological and behavioral) boundaries that others have. This is often judged
as a weakness, especially by the empaths themselves. This level of openness,
however, when paired with the power of the Divine to transmute and
transform, is a gift.

But when empaths forget that we meant to be portals and close down in the face of
others’ pain instead of opening, locking it into our own bodies, we can experience
what academics call empathic distress, otherwise known as serious suffering.

Empaths who unconsciously hold onto emotions tend to feel more pain than other
people. We can endure illness, inflammation, depression, anxiety, and lack of trust in
ourselves and in the world.

But like other sensitives, empaths also come baring gifts, such as intuition, depth,
great spiritual attunement, healing capacities, and the ability to connect with and
bring forth the power of Unseen World. How to access these gifts and minimize the
suffering, how to learn to run our Medicine through our initiated wholeness instead
of through our wounding, these are the conscious empath’s tasks.

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Empaths vs. HSP’s

HSP = Highly Sensitive Person
Elaine Aron http://hsperson.com

The term empath is often used interchangeably with “Highly Sensitive Person”
(HSP). Coined by Elaine Aron. Elaine Aron estimates from her studies that
HSP’s make up about 15%- 20% of the population.

And although HSPs are our first cousins, most empath thought leaders agree, that
empaths are a specific breed of HSP.

Traits of HSP’s: (From Elaine Aron’s self-test)

• I am easily overwhelmed by strong sensory input.
• I seem to be aware of subtleties in my environment.
• Other people’s moods affect me.
• I tend to be very sensitive to pain.
• I find myself needing to withdraw during busy days,into bed or into a darkened
room or any place where I can have some privacy and relief from stimulation.
• I am particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine.
• I am easily overwhelmed by things like bright lights, strong smells,coarse fabrics,or
sirens close by.
• I have a rich,complex inner life.
• I am made uncomfortable by loud noises.
• I am deeply moved by the arts or music.
• My nervous system sometimes feels so frazzled that I just have to go off by myself.
• I am conscientious.
• I startle easily.
• I get rattled when I have a lot to do in a short amount of time.
• When people are uncomfortable in a physical environment I tend to know what
needs to be done to make it more comfortable (like changing the lighting or the
seating).
• I am annoyed when people try to get me to do too many things at once.
• I try hard to avoid making mistakes or forgetting things.
• I make a point to avoid violent movies and TV shows.
• I become unpleasantly aroused when a lot is going on around me.
• Being very hungry creates a strong reaction in me,disrupting my concentration or
mood.
• Changes in my life shake me up.
• I notice and enjoy delicate or fine scents, tastes, sounds, works of art.
• I find it unpleasant to have a lot going on at once.

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• I make it a high priority to arrange my life to avoid upsetting or overwhelming
situations.
• I am bothered by intense stimuli, like loud noises or chaotic scenes.
• When I must compete or be observed while performing a task, I become so nervous
or shaky that I do much worse than I would otherwise.
• When I was a child, my parents or teachers seemed to see me as sensitive or shy.


While many HSPs are sensitive to the emotions of those around them, not all absorb
those emotions into themselves. Empaths however, tend to not only sense the
feelings of others—anger, grief, rage, fear, confusion— but to take them on (and
in), especially whatever emotions are not being consciously processed by the
feelers themselves. Although empaths sometimes experience vicarious joy,
more often then not, we are shadow magnets—swallowing the unmetabolized
suffering of the world.

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Characteristics of Empaths

1. Highly acute intuition
2. Highly sensitive nervous system
3. Highly sensitive and tender heart—feel “thin-skinned” and often take things
personally and feel hurt
4. Sensitive to foods, clothing, lightening, environment, etc.
5. Often labeled hypersensitive
6. Prone to overwhelm and overstimulation—in crowded places, too many
people around, with high stress, too many clients, etc.
7. Feeling others emotions as your own
8. Find boundaries challenging (emotional, energetic, behavioral)
9. Have a hard time in relationships—either merging with others or avoiding
intimacy due to fear of engulfment
10. Often feel like you “lose yourself” or self-abandon
11. Strong BS detector—highly attuned to truth
12. Strong need for authenticity and congruency
13. Often very compassionate
14. You serve as a confidant for others, good listeners—others tell you their
problems
15. Prone to fatigue and illness, especially endocrine disorders (chronic fatigue,
adrenal issues, inflammation, etc.), and digestive distress
16. Need to recharge solo—in nature, meditation, etc.
17. Creative
18. Dreamers
19. Very sensitive to energy—of people, places, animals, situations
20. Often healers
21. Connected to the spiritual world

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The History of Empathic Development/
How Empaths Come to Be

§ Many of us are born this way, we come in empathic, sensitive, healers
perhaps even from other lifetimes. This is not a problem, empaths’
temperament and energetic make up is uniquely suited for what it is we are
here to do on the planet—our mission and life lessons.

§ This is often reinforced in childhood—or, for some others, it is created in
childhood. A traumatic childhood can create the need for hyper-
vigilance—the empath learns how to exquisitely track their environment,
scanning for social danger, and hyper-focusing on others. Or, maybe its not
trauma, but modeling, they learn from one of their parents. Or, if they had a
parent who was more prone to energetically merging, they learned how
to be permeable, in order to get love, to serve as a source of nourishment for
their caregivers.

§ Adult trauma can also reinforce the patterns

§ This trains the energy body. The person learns to leave the physical body, self
abandon, and go into the other—for safety or love…which leaves a void,
which often gets filled by others’ emotions.

§ This can be reinforced through energetic habits, projecting consciousness,
substance use, spiritual practices that encourage astral travel, journeying,
etc.

§ One of the primary tasks in the developing empath, therefore, is learning how
to come home to our physical bodies and hold our own center. Earth is where
the work is.

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Common Empath Coping Strategies


There are three main strategies that empath’s use to cope with this overwhelm
and sensitivity and to try and get our needs met. None of them are ideal as they all
create more suffering. All three strategies are, nonetheless, brilliant attempts at self-
love. None should be judged.

1) Become co-dependent

Become enmeshed in others’ material and business or overly involved in others
lives. Diffuse boundaries. Take on other people’s stuff as their own, overly
responsible, often trying to solve others problems for them. Rescuers.

The practice for an empath in an enmeshed state is to ground, come back to center,
stay with themselves, pull their energy out of the other and back into their own
body and to “put on their own oxygen mask first” before helping others. In other
words, practice “staying in your own lane” and remember the mantra “what other
people think of me is none of my business.”

2) Become avoidant

Avoid. Shield. Become over-bounded. Separate from others. Harden the heart. Wall-
off. Shut down. Numb. Check-out. Isolate. Disconnect.

This is a normal impulse for empaths—to shield, and an important developmental
step. Boundaries, are essential, but we don’t want to become over-bounded either,
because avoidance is a difficult way to live—it creates loneliness, isolation, and pain.

The practice for an empath who is in an avoidant state is to ground, come back to
their bodies, re-establish safety through their resources, practice self-love, clear
their energy, expand their fields to take up more space, open to source and allow

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themselves to be filled up with nourishment, practice compassion for another, and
learn how to be more relational (non-violent communication practices, empathy
training, perspective taking, authentic relating practices, etc.).

3) Become overly expressive

Some empaths have difficulty with “containment boundaries” and end up “turning
up the volume” on their pain in an attempt to get seen. They use their suffering as
the vehicle for connecting—unconsciously hoping that if they are loud enough,
someone will see their suffering and offer them love. Unfortunately, the louder they
are about their suffering, the more difficult it is for others to connect with them so
they end up pushing others away (or attracting rescuers).

The practice for an overly expressive empath is to learn how to contain their
suffering and practice developing a healthy inner parent who can offer the wounded
inner child love and compassion. An overly expressive empath also can benefit from
learning how to ask for their needs to be met in a direct and sovereign way.

It’s important to note that each of these styles is a result of a dysregulated nervous
system. They are all ways that empaths cope with an over-stimulated nervous
system—either by going “out there” to try to manage the threat in the other, going
“out there” to try and “get something” from the other, or retreating “in here” to try
and get away from the threat in the other. Regulating the nervous system helps on
all accounts.

Empaths can also practice these maladaptive relational habits when they aren’t
stressed, because they’ve become habitual. We want to expand the empaths
relational repertoire to make it safer to be centered in self, contained, and connected
to other.

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Empathic Gifts

So what are Empaths really suited for?

Compassion
Merging with the natural world/speaking for the trees/ocean/etc.
Embodying the light of the Divine and all the qualities that go along with that
Anchoring in higher vibrations and being those vibrations in service of others and
the planet
Being love
Unity consciousness and the evolution of humanity

And what are some common empathic gifts?

Intuition—psychic, medical intuition, channeling, mediumship, etc.
Healing—trauma healing, alchemy, shadow transformation, energy healing, etc.
Space holding
Animal and child communication
Artistic expression
Writers
Musicians
Teachers and thinkers (they can sense into the field of humanity)
Systems creators
Tenders of children
Tenders of the earth
Transmitting love—being beacons of love and light
Priest/Priestess, minister, or shamans—a foot in both worlds
Holders of the collective
Truth tellers/story tellers
Beacons of light

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Empath Self-Inquiry


§ In one phrase or sentence, what tells you that you are an empath?

§ How does your empathicness shows up? (For example, do you take on
your family’s energy, do you feel the collective, do you feel most
empathic one on one, or in groups, or…?)

§ What kind of an empath do you think you are? (For example, one who
hears others thoughts, or feels their feelings, or senses the collective
more than particular individuals, or who receives information in
dreams, or feels pain in your body that belongs to others, etc.?)

§ What kind of coping strategies do you use an empath?

§ What do you know about your empathic gifts? And how do these gifts
show up? (In community, one-on-one, when you are in nature, etc.)

§ What stands in the way between you and your gifts?

§ What makes you nervous about being here in this course?

§ What excites you about being here in this course?

§ In one sentence, what is your intention or desire for Empath Mastery?

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Week 1 Suggested Homework

These are optional, but suggested. If you feel overwhelmed, pick one or two. If you
feel inspired, do more. Always listen to yourself above all else.

1) Inner Healer Meditation and Journaling. Get to know your Inner Healer by
doing the Inner Healer meditation at least one more time between now and next
week’s call. Bonus*** If you feel inspired, after your Inner Healer meditation,
freewrite a “love letter of appreciation and support” from your Inner Healer to you.
What does your Inner Healer want you to know right now about your journey as an
empath? What are they proud of you for? What do they want to appreciate you for?
What do they want to remind you of? Remember, the Inner Healer’s voice is always
loving and supportive, so if you are hearing a critical voice, chances are that’s your
Inner Critic sneaking in! We’ll be doing work with the Inner Critic next week, for
now, just thank them for making an appearance, and ask them to step aside as you
go back to listening to your Inner Healer. J.

2) Personal Mythology of the Divine. Spend some time journaling your responses
to the “Personal Mythology of the Divine” pdf (downloadable on the course page
under Week 1.) This will serve as a springboard for you as we dive deeper into our
relationship with the Unseen World. We will draw on this relationship in our
clearing and meditation practices throughout the course.

3) Empath Meditation. If you’d like, you can listen to the bonus “Daily Empath
Meditation” and begin to practice grounding, releasing others energy, and calling
your energy back home.

4) Resource List. To begin to practice regulating your nervous system and coming
out of overwhelm, make a list of your “resources” this week. A resource is anything,
anyone, or anywhere that lights you up, helps you feel safe, helps you calm down
when you are stressed, makes your belly happy, warms your heart, or feels like
home. These can be internal or external resources. Noticing what we feel in our

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bodies when we experience or imagine our resources, helps us to register safety,
move the energy in our bodies, and regulate. This is essential for empaths.

Examples of external resources include:

§ People you care about and/or who you know care about you
§ Places in nature that are special to you
§ Articles of clothing or jewelry that have special meaning to you
§ A pet
§ Your home or bed
§ An Epsom Salt bath
§ An activity like hiking or riding your bike or riding horses
§ Spiritual resources: ancestors, guides, angles, animal guides, the Divine, etc.

Examples of internal resources include:

§ A sense of self-confidence
§ Knowing you’ve gotten through challenges in the past
§ Humor
§ Self-love
§ Strength
§ Determination
§ The capacity to surrender, etc.

Keep your list near by. Grow it. Make a collage or a book of pictures that remind you
of your resources if that feels good to you. Spend time looking at your list or collage
and notice what you feel in your body as you do. Then, bonus points, engage in one
of your resources this week. Resources are invaluable assets, guard them and grow
them.

5) Optional Accountability Partners. If you’d like, choose an accountability
partner and hold your first check in.

Follow your intuition as to how you want your time together to go. If you’d like you
can follow the following format:

a) Open the space together intentionally. You may want to do this by
lighting a candle, shaking a rattle, calling in support, doing a
grounding, or any other way that feels right to you. Name your
intentions for your work together, do a two minute “weather
report” style check in (naming what you notice in your body in that
moment, for example, or anything you need to say to arrive. Or, you
might want to skip this and start with two minutes of gratitude to
set the tone for your time together.
b) Choose who will go first. Then, have the first person share a 10-20
minute deeper-dive check in where they report on homework, ask

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 for support, name what’s coming up for them on relationship to the
course material, etc. etc.
c) The listener can reflect what they are hearing, ask clarifying
questions, give feedback, and/or offer suggestions if your partner is
up for it. Remember, as a listener, your main job is to listen, not to
fix or take on! We’ll go deeper into how to do this later in the
course.
d) Next, switch roles.
e) After both people have shared and reflected, you can close the
space by naming your take aways from your time together along
with three appreciations of yourself and three appreciations of the
other person.
f) Then, close the space with a bow, the chiming of a bell, shaking a
rattle, saying a prayer, or in whatever way feels right to you.

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