Breakout Room

For Trainees:

One task of doing the training is to facilitate one of the breakout rooms.

This consists of 1 trainer with 3 participants

Session Overview

  • Session 1: Empathy Circle. In Session 1 you will just facilitate a standard Empathy Circle on the topic of:

  • Session 2, 3, 4: Empathy Circle. Each participant will facilitate a short empathy circle. Each trainer has been structuring this a bit differently. It's up to you to use the approach you find best.

Approach 1: Participants Facilities full Empathy Circle with 5 minute feedback at the end.

Session 2

Process 1: Overall time: About 1 Hour, 30 min.

  • Each participant holds a 25 minute empathy circle and has a 5 min feedback debrief on how the circle went. (30 min total)

  • Participant;

    • give the "How To Take Part in an Empathy Circle" instructions,

    • set the topic,

    • set the time: (should be 3 minutes)

    • and facilitate the Empathy Circle.

  • Usually it takes about 5 minutes to present the How To. Then there is 20 minutes for the circle. at 3 min per turn, that is about 6 speaking turns.

Session 3 and 4

  • It is the came as session 1 but ask how much, if any challenge the participant wants.

  • a scale of 1 to 10.

Breakout Room Outline

  • Trainer Introduction

  • Participant 1

    • (25 min) How to Empathy Circle

    • Set topic:

    • Set Time Limit: 3 min

    • Set Challenge Level: 0 to 10

    • Facilitate Empathy Circle

    • (5 min) Debrief

  • Participant 2

  • Participant 3

  • Overall Debrief: 5 min

Approach 2:

Breakout Room Outline

  • Trainer Introduction

  • How to Empathy Circle

    • Participant 1

    • Participant 2

    • Participant 3

  • Facilitate Empathy Circle

    • Participant 1

    • Participant 2

    • Participant 3

  • Overall Debrief: 5 min

Breakout Room