Character Building.
How do we become the collaborating caring citizens of the American dream?
How do we recreate our nation around the American character of care?
Do you ever wonder . . .
- What has to happen concerning my own moral worldview to foster successful collaboration with my neighbor to make public governance more effective?
- How do I foster the idea in my neighbor that I can be a trusted partner in our mutual moral mission of protection and empowerment of one another?
- What skills can I develop so my caring neighbors can feel an increasing sense of trust and loyalty in our mutual partnership to make public governance effective?
- How do we encourage weekly investments in our 1st Amendment freedom to gather for the common good and broaden prosperity?
- How do I communicate more effectively to motivate current caring citizens and prospective caring citizens to modify their moral worldview when it is actually hindering trust building and shrinking our common wealth?
- How do I respond to authoritarian neighbors who resist adding compassion and shared responsibility to their idea of public governance or their identity as a citizen?
- What steps can caring citizens take to foster more effective neighborhood teams that build effective partnerships across precinct lines to build effective public governance?
These are the questions the co-founders of the Empathy Surplus Project, working through Caring Citizens’ Chapters in precincts across America, seek to answer.
Chuck Watts, a life long Democratic Party member, and Gary Evans, a life long Republican Party member, co-founded the Empathy Surplus Project.
The Empathy Surplus Project is for all caring citizens of any party who believe the use and application of America’s core value of empathy and responsibility, both personal and social, belong in public government.
The soul of democracy is empathy. The America dream is citizens protecting and empowering each other. To fully understand the American moral mission it is important to embrace the latest insights of the brain.
The Empathy Surplus Project, to be successful, will depend on crowd-sourcing – lots of caring citizens of any political party partnering with one another to recreate our nation around compassion and responsibility, both personal and social. We will do this through small communities of practice, both physical small groups, and on-line small groups.
How You Can Participate As An Effective Partner?
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* Empathy Symbol used with permission.
