Acceptance and empathy
Examples for expressing feelings of empathy and acceptance:
Amira (22, student): “The course helped me evolve in several areas and had a great effect on me by exposing me to a variety of opinions that I’m now more open and tolerant towards. Also it really helped me socially. I’m already on my third year at university, studying with the same students, seeing the same faces every day, but I’ve never spoken with them and never knew them closely although I wanted to.
Thanks to the course and being divided into small mixed teams I started talking to people and getting to know them better, it helped me make new relationships, hear new opinions and identify with other people, some very different from me.”
Omer (24, student): “Every time I came to the course I felt that whatever has been going on during the day, I managed to see things differently. The possibility to open up to people who don’t know me and discuss feelings, emotions and thoughts without being judges and just listened to from the heart, just made me smile anew every time. So thank you to this amazing class where dialogues were always deep, respectful, emotional and caring.”