Extending Empathy - A Network to Exchange Tools/Methodologies and Processes from Design, Performance and Restorative Justice

该网络将通过与国际演讲者的4次计划研讨会，分享来自3个不同创意社区（设计、表演和RJ）的移情工具和流程的知识。我们的目标是分享案例研究、发现，并提高关于如何最好地建立移情过程的最佳实践知识。犯罪、冲突和司法的无效执行降低了个人/集体生活的质量，破坏了社会凝聚力。一种回应是RJ。这使那些受到犯罪或冲突伤害的人以及对伤害负有责任的人能够进行直接沟通，使所有受影响的人都能够参与在修复伤害方面发挥作用的共情过程，从而找到积极的前进道路。RJ让受害者告诉犯罪者他们犯罪的真实影响，得到答案，得到道歉，然后继续他们的生活。它也让违法者理解并承担责任。RJ与设计中采用的共同创造和参与式方法以及艺术联盟成员在刑事司法系统内通过表演研究提供的方法有一些共同之处。这些不同的专家如何使用“移情过程”是关键，值得进一步探索。讲习班将提供一个背景，促进目前在不同社区工作的从业者对移情过程的新联系/理解。通过分享来自不同实践参与风格的现有见解，该网络的讲习班将建立社区能力，并帮助学科专家和他们参与的社区更好地理解移情问题。特别是，如何在关系中使用创造性策略来帮助提供冲突管理，或者帮助在以前没有表现出悔意的群体中建立同理心。此外，在英国刑事司法系统内工作的艺术从业者将分享所谓的“代理过程”（传统上被理解为决策机构的一些成员将其投票权委托给同一机构的其他成员在他们缺席时投票的过程）的信息。这样的过程似乎在创造移情机会方面发挥了重要作用，有助于启动治疗，随后受害者和犯罪者与RJ的接触。分享良好的实践是必要的，因为实施RJ存在真正的障碍，包括首先对犯罪者参与的恐惧，一个或多个相关方（犯罪者，受害者，从业者）的抵制和怀疑。其他拥有既得利益的社区成员)，并且缺乏提供移情工具的技能，甚至无法访问代理流程。考虑到移情以及如何建立和应用移情通常是RJ未说出来的问题，研讨会将讨论如何让参与者参与移情过程。通过角色扮演，利用戏剧中的工具和技术，将用户作为参与式设计活动的合作伙伴，有效地建立共鸣。设计和绩效超越了产品的创造，进入了社会创新领域，包括与难以接触的群体或社区接触的战略过程。“纸板公民”（Cardboard Citizens）、“干净的休息”（Clean Break）和鹅剧团（Geese Theatre Company）都是向囚犯传授同理心过程的典型戏剧组织，它们有很多隐性知识可以与其他创意人士分享。不同的创意社区使用各种不同的干预措施来减少疏离感，建立同理心和/或催化有效的社区联系，但他们很少有机会分享理解，这将是这个网络的中心焦点。这是必要的，因为有助于提高同理心的参与也将有助于提高社会凝聚力。

This network will share knowledge about empathetic tools and processes from 3 different creative communities - Design, Performance and RJ - via 4 planned workshops with international speakers. The ambition is to share case studies, findings and improve knowledge of best practice regarding how best to build empathic processes. Crime, conflict and ineffective delivery of justice detract from the quality of individual/collective life, disrupting social cohesion. One response has been RJ. This brings those harmed by crime or conflict, and those responsible for the harm, into direct communication, enabling all affected to engage in empathetic processes that play a part in repairing harm to find a positive way forward. RJ lets victims tell offenders the real impact of their crime, get answers, receive an apology and get on with their lives. It also lets offenders understand and take responsibility. RJ has some elements in common with co-creation and participatory approaches employed in design, as well as those delivered via performance studies within the criminal justice system by members of the Arts Alliance. How all these different specialists use 'empathetic processes' is the crux and deserves further exploration. The workshops will provide a context that promotes new connections/understandings about empathetic processes by practitioners currently working with diverse communities. In sharing existing insights from different practice-based styles of engagement, the network's workshops will build community capacity and help subject specialists and the communities they engage with better understand the issue of empathy. In particular, how creative strategies may be used in relationships to help deliver conflict management or to aid engagement with building empathy in groups who had previously not shown remorse, for example. Furthermore, sharing information about what have been called 'proxy processes' (traditionally understood as a process whereby some members of a decision-making body delegate their voting power to other members of the same body to vote in their absence) delivered by arts practitioners working within criminal justice system in the UK will occur. Such processes appear to play a significant role in creating empathic opportunities that help kick-start healing, and subsequent engagement with RJ by victims and offendersSharing good practice is needed because there are real obstacles to implementing RJ, including fear of offenders in being involved in the first place, resistance and suspicion by one or more of the parties involved (offenders, victims, practitioners, other community members with a vested interest) and a lack of the skills to offer empathetic tools or even access to proxy processes. Given that empathy and how to establish and apply it, is often the unspoken question of RJ, the workshops will address how to engage participants in empathetic processes. Design usefully engages with building empathy through role-playing, drawing on tools and techniques from theatre to engage users as partners in participatory design activity. Design and performance go beyond the creation of products and into the field of social innovation, including strategic processes of engagement with hard to reach groups or communities. Cardboard Citizens, Clean Break and the Geese Theatre Company are exemplar theatre organisations that teach empathetic processes to prisoners and have much tacit knowledge to share with other creatives. Different creative communities work using a variety of diverse interventions to reduce alienation, build empathy and/or catalyse effective community connections, but rarely do they have opportunities to share understandings which will be the central focus of this network. It is needed because what works to improve empathetic engagement will also contribute to improving social cohesion.