how it works

the empathy labyrinth's very basic instructions: 

1. Identify the situation in your life that you would like to work on.

2. What’s your intention? (what are you hoping to accomplish?)

3. Go around the EL identifying each of your Beloved Outer Jackals. (judgments, assumptions, & the like) “What you’re saying about the other.” Go around the EL identifying each of your Beloved Inner Jackals, (judgments, assumptions, & the like) “What you’re saying about yourself.”

4. Observation:  “What did you see/hear (without an evaluation)?”

5. Go around the EL identifying all of your feelings.

6. Go around the EL identifying all of your unmet needs/values.

7. Then narrow them down to about 5 needs/values. Now imagine each of your unmet needs/values being met. Take your time. Notice what you’re feeling in your heart. From this place of heart connection, would you like to make a request of yourself or the other to make life more wonderful?

8. Try to imagine what the other person is feeling and needing.

 

• Click here for the full empathy labyrinth worksheet.

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