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]]> http://blog.grdodge.org/2010/03/24/let-the-great-world-spin-%e2%80%93-elephants-and-all/comment-page-1/#comment-718 Wendy Liscow Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:06:01 +0000 http://blog.grdodge.org/?p=4669#comment-718 Thank you for this blog. After every Leadership NJ session there is a great deal of heart and mind activity that takes the full month between sessions to process. All too often we get thrown right back into our busy workload and personal lives and don’t take adequate time do let the elephant rider have some time to commune with the elephant. I am so grateful that you wrote this blog to help me ponder the extremely important questions: What comes of empathy? What changes as a result? How do we make it a conscious pursuit to make that creation of empathy matter? It reminds me of another question you ask during your assessment workshops on measuring what matters: What would it look like in action? What do I need to change in my own response to these experiences to make this and all great learning experiences, including great theatre, matter? Prior to coming to Dodge I had invested my life’s work to producing theatre works that would hopefully generate such great empathy, new knowledge, passion and/or simple joy in our audiences that they would be moved to some action, be it to fight some injustice, just be better informed, or to look at their neighbor with new understanding. It was no small feat to find the right combination of writing and artists to make that happen and I am so grateful that we have so many wonderful theatres doing just that in our state. They are also making great efforts to make that empathy matter more through audience discussions and connecting with community organizations. For example, tonight I am going to see Hurricane Season at Passage Theatre which is part of their Greening Initiative: http://passagetheatre.org/go/index.php/mainstage-mainmenu-35/2009-10-season-mainmenu-108/greening-festival-mainmenu-119 Thank you for this blog. After every Leadership NJ session there is a great deal of heart and mind activity that takes the full month between sessions to process. All too often we get thrown right back into our busy workload and personal lives and don’t take adequate time do let the elephant rider have some time to commune with the elephant. I am so grateful that you wrote this blog to help me ponder the extremely important questions: What comes of empathy? What changes as a result? How do we make it a conscious pursuit to make that creation of empathy matter? It reminds me of another question you ask during your assessment workshops on measuring what matters: What would it look like in action? What do I need to change in my own response to these experiences to make this and all great learning experiences, including great theatre, matter? Prior to coming to Dodge I had invested my life’s work to producing theatre works that would hopefully generate such great empathy, new knowledge, passion and/or simple joy in our audiences that they would be moved to some action, be it to fight some injustice, just be better informed, or to look at their neighbor with new understanding. It was no small feat to find the right combination of writing and artists to make that happen and I am so grateful that we have so many wonderful theatres doing just that in our state. They are also making great efforts to make that empathy matter more through audience discussions and connecting with community organizations. For example, tonight I am going to see Hurricane Season at Passage Theatre which is part of their Greening Initiative: http://passagetheatre.org/go/index.php/mainstage-mainmenu-35/2009-10-season-mainmenu-108/greening-festival-mainmenu-119

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