Learn to facilitate deep, mutual listening — and help build a global culture of empathy. Training is free, by donation.
Join a Free Weekly Empathy Circle
Everyone begins the same way — by experiencing it first. No registration needed to take your first step.
Attend at least two Empathy Circle Cafes to understand the process before applying to a training cohort.
See Cafe Schedule →Join a cohort of peers for four sessions of deep practice in empathic listening and circle facilitation.
See Training Dates →Receive your certificate and start hosting your own circles. Use and adapt our open-source scripts, handbook, and toolkit.
Explore Toolkit →An Empathy Circle is a structured dialogue where each person takes turns speaking and being heard — truly heard. Not debated, not advised. Just listened to with full attention and reflected back.
Based on Carl Rogers' active listening, it creates the experience of being deeply understood — often rare in daily life. Participants consistently describe leaving feeling lighter, more connected, and more seen.
Learn How It Works →Shares whatever is on their mind — feelings, thoughts, experiences — without interruption or advice.
Reflects back the essence of what was heard — not to fix or respond, but to let the speaker feel understood.
Everyone rotates through both roles. Equal voice. Mutual care. Collective empathic experience.
Four consecutive Saturday sessions, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM PST. Prerequisite: attend 2 Empathy Cafes first.
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Training takes place via Zoom · Attend a free Cafe first →
"The listening and reflecting in a shared Empathy Circle gives people a collective empathic experience." — Scientific American
Our mission is to raise the level of empathy on the planet — by training people everywhere to facilitate circles of genuine mutual listening. This training is a gift to humanity, open-source, free by donation.