Empathy7.org: Everyday training practices for better human relationships

Human relationships shape much of what happens in our lives, in our communities, and in the major events of the world. This site offers simple practices you can use in everyday life to become more observant, more responsive, and more effective with people.

These practices are designed to:

• Cost no money at all, and need no special privileges, education or equipment, so they are available to almost anyone, any time;
• Require no extra time, since they work through whatever you are doing anyway.
• Provide gentle guidance even for lifelong problems in human relationships - and also for working with difficult people;
• Be a hobby, a business skill, a way to meet people, and/or a path toward a better world - as you wish;
• Assist personal and community success - and defense in an often hostile world;
• Be invisible if necessary, a precaution against oppression;

The skills and relationships you build remain yours to use, with no institution controlling them.

Start with Messages, a practice in observing and listening. It helps build the attention that supports everything else on this site. Otherwise, the practices are listed in no particular order.

The Big Picture

Human relationships are important determinants of personal, community, and global "fate." We can improve them here and now in our personal lives - and maybe improve public life, through social movements.

This site suggests some training practices to begin. Anyone can propose others. We suggest not a particular list, but a framework: collecting and testing interpersonal training methods available to anyone, anywhere, any time.

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