Join our united community– Lane County (ACT), WAND, ESSN, CALC and Beyond War for a community conversation Monday December 12th from 5:30 to 9:30 pm at Harris Hall (8th and Oak).

This event is an “Empathy Hot Tub”, a chance to relax into talk about our values and our personal stories. We can build a culture of empathy and compassion in Eugene through connecting to our common humanity, listening, dialog, conflict resolution and empathic action!

We invite anyone to participate in small informal empathy circles facilitated by staff and volunteers from Community Mediation Services, including Chip Coker, Barbara Daté, Robin Weil, Tim McCabe, Mark Roberts and others. We will have a laptop connected to the feed from the city council meeting in the room. People could circulate back and forth from Harris Hall to City Council chambers as they felt moved to do, before, during, and after the Council meeting. Handouts explaining paraphrasing and summarizing will be available. We will also be collecting some information about whether and with what topics and formats those present might like the “Community Conversations” to continue. Donations to Occupy Eugene welcome.