Empowering People Around you
Empowerment the process of gaining freedom and power to do what you want or to control what happens to you.
As empowering ourselves, empowering others might be a hard task too.
Why do you think empowering people around you is necessary?
What do you think could be some of the ways that may help in empowering people around you?
@Pureriver55
Empowering others is a life goal, a reason to exist. I want to do everything I can to help my daughter go to college.
Why do you think empowering people around you is necessary?
Empowerment is what makes one feel strong and enough by ourselves. It helps us through the toughest times as we can understand, support and be fulfilled by ourselves, and stand up for what we feel to be right. It is hence very necessary, and helping others gain empowerment is an efficient way of helping them. This would be especially useful at 7 cups where people with mental and emotional difficulties come together.
What do you think could be some of the ways that may help in empowering people around you?
By making them feel as if there voice is heard and they are understood. Assuring them that nothing about how they feel is unjustified and that they arent alone. Providing them with unconditional empathy and support while leading them to a personalised path of recovery during their struggle.
@Pureriver55 *
@Pureriver55. Thank you for your post and stimulating some reflection on this important topic. Some personal reflections:
Why do you think empowering ppl around you is necessary?
I like to think of empowerment as an exchange of energy ...as a two-way gift. No one gives a gift that they do not have to give, likewise you cannot empower others without first being empowered yourself. A giver that gives what they do not yet possess ultimately defeats the purpose and the ends of empowerment, that is to sustain an exchange of growth (mental, emotional, spiritual, relational, vocational etc).
Empowering one another and ourselves is important ..its how we learn to be better versions of ourselves.
What do you think could be some of the ways that may help in empowering the ppl around you?
1. Listening without constructing meaning from my own frames of reference, values and perspectives but actively engaging in someone elses meaning and experiences from their perspectives.
2. Empowerment is also transformation. Emancipatory learning through reflection and giving others the opportunity and safe space to engage in personal reflection is within itself empowering.... so thank you, Pureriver 😊❤️
J
