Empathy Cafes Australia

Empathy Cafes - Australia

Do you worry that our world is becoming more divided, society is isolating, or fragmented?

Are you looking for a place where your anger, sadness, fear and love for this world can be heard?

Where you can practise skills that transform conflict into genuine connection?

The Empathy Cafe Movement is a peer support arena where we cultivate Empathic Communities. Empathy skills bridge the gap between "us" and "them", between despair and active hope, between broken solutions and collective action, between disaster and the Great Turning.

An Empathy Café is where people share and practise active listening without judgment, in small groups. Share as much or as little as you feel comfortable.

Come to the Empathy Café to find common ground and cultivate a ripple effect of empathy for a better world, through your activism, professional & personal life.

"We are the ones we have been waiting for" June Jordan: Apartheid Activist

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"Times are urgent, we must slow down" ~ Bayo Akomolafe: Emergence Network

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"This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings... Out of this darkness a new world can arise, from our dreams."

~Joanna Macy: The Work that Reconnects~

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Facilitators

Aurora Gyorffy is passionate about cultivating Regenerative Cultures.

“Regenerative human cultures are healthy, resilient and adaptable it cares for the planet and it cares for life in the awareness that this is the most effective way to create a thriving future for all of humanity.”

- Daniel Christian Wahl, Designing Regenerative Cultures.

Aurora facilitates spaces that cultivate connective relationships with our deep core selves, community and country, so that we can design with all life. Aurora is completing her Masters in Psychotherapy and a has a Bachelors in Environmental Engineering. She also brings experience from Renewable Energy Engineering, ecopsychology education, sustainability leadership, Nonviolent Communication, Possibility Coaching and conflict transformation. Her main focus is to nurture active hope and design within local communities, toward an environmentally regenerative, socially just, economically circular and fulfilling human presence with the planet.

Email : Be.Regener8@gmail.com

Caroline McLauren enjoys fostering spaces for people to come together, connect with themselves, each other and the natural world. She has worked as mental health educator and currently works at a mental health research institute. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Psychology and is completing a Masters in Psychological Practice.