Empathy Angels
By Jessica White
NZ $38,108 pledged
168 people pledged
Closed
NZ $37,000 minimum target
This campaign was successful and closed on 21/01/2023 at 9:00 PM.
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Empathy Angels
Project 2022-08-07 14:28:30 +1200
The Empathy Angels are a team of New Zealanders who care about the wellbeing of humanity. Through the practice of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) we experience the power of giving & receiving empathy with people in our lives and dream of the 'magic' reaching more people.
Our mission is to make empathy available in the form of face-to-face sessions on Zoom to the New Zealand public, and eventually the world, thanks to the online nature of the service. The sessions are scheduled via our website www.empathyangels.co.nz for a time that suits, through the Empathy Angels' calendars.
We long for empathy to be available and accessible to everyone -
sessions will be completely free of charge to recipients.
To sustain this service, the team will financially receive (in return for time, energy and skill). We have registered as an Incorporated Society to open us up to future funding opportunities.
Right now, we need your help! Your pledge will go towards setting up this service, administration and providing sessions for the first six months. By sharing our campaign with others, the project will become more seen, more supported and empathy sessions available from March 2023. We see this movement as being fueled by the people for the people and every pledge counts.
There's quite a few reward options for individuals and businesses - check them out!
The Team
So what is an empathy session?
You'll connect with an Empathy Angel on Zoom, where you'll be welcomed, as you are, into respectfully held space. You might bring to the session a current challenge, something you're wanting clarity around or something else you want to voice, yet aren't ready to share with those in your life. Your Angel listens with full presence using the skills of Nonviolent Communication. They subtly assist you further into your own experience, where you'll likely discover layers of meaning and understanding you have not yet touched. Your Angel will respond with presence and care, intuitively sensing the moments their contributions could be most helpful, always bringing it back to you and in the present. After receiving empathy, people are often left with a sense of clarity, healing, more inner peace and a way of moving forward.
What is Nonviolent Communication (NVC)?
NVC is a modality created by American psychologist Dr. Marshall B Rosenberg Ph.D, a result of his mission in understanding human behaviour and supporting individuals, communities and organisations to relate with connection & understanding. Also known as Compassionate Communication, Marshall chose the term 'Nonviolent' in reference to how Mahatma Gandhi referred to it in his movement of nonviolence, or 'ahimsa' in Sanskrit, which directly translates to 'harmlessness' or 'care for all'.
"Through NVC we learn to hear our own deeper needs and those of others. Through its emphasis on deep listening - to ourselves as well as others - NVC helps us discover the depth of our own compassion. This language reveals the awareness that all human beings are only trying to honour universal values and needs, every minute, every day.
NVC can be seen as both a spiritual practice that helps us see our common humanity, using our power in a way that honours everyone's needs, and a concrete set of skills which help us create life-serving families and communities." - Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
What happens after the six months initial service period?
As an Incorporated Society with the service operating, we'll be in a position to seek alternative funding routes. We will do what it takes for people to have ongoing empathy support. We intend to continually grow our Team of Angels, meaning more empathy sessions are available for more people.
What does the $37,000 go toward?
* Financial remuneration to the Angels for their time & energy for six months Apr-Sept 2023
* Management of the team & operations
* Marketing - making the service known and reaching those who want to use it
* Full website with confidential self-booking engine
* Rewards packaging & postage
* Campaign video
* PledgeMe commission
Supporting Businesses
These NZ businesses have joined us on our mission to create our empathy vision and have generously contributed their own products and services which are included in pledge rewards.
Comments
Updates 7
Post-Campaign Update
02/02/2023 at 2:24 PM
It's been just over a week since dancing across the crowdfunding finish line and boy, just tuning back into the experience of collaboration, restores any still-tired bones with vitality. Such a treat. 🙏
So what's happening now?
🌀 We've JUST finished sending rewards out to you all - yippeee!
🌀 Wheels are in motion with our website design - exciting...
🌀 Preparations with the Angel team to have the structure of our sessions completely streamlined
🌀 All other behind-the-scenes preparations to have us ready in April to begin offering our six-month pilot service
What can you do?
Speak about Empathy Angels with those in your life as an upcoming free emotional support service.
Keep hanging out with us on Instagram & Facebook to keep our community alive!
Jess & the EA team 🤍
Incredible announcement! ✨
21/01/2023 at 4:52 PM
$10,000 has been donated to our campaign by a Trust, which means we are over $30,000. Whoppeeee!!
We are collectively dancing and celebrating our way toward the finish line together, can you feel it?!!
Every pledge counts. Is there somewhere you thought about sharing and then haven't yet? Now would be the time! 🙏
Being an all-or-nothing campaign, it means we only receive the funds you've all lovingly pledged if we reach our goal.
And I'm over-joyed to share, that if there's an amount remaining, someone(s) has offered to loan us the money so we can still cross the finish line and receive all the funds to move into Part 2 of our project!!
Tonight I'll be dancing on the beach with my family, with you all in my heart.
For now, the campaign is still live and open!
With love & gratitude to you all,
Jess and the EA team
4 days to make it happen!
17/01/2023 at 10:14 AM
The support that's happening for Empathy Angels becoming a service is incredible, with many of you sharing our posts on social media... we are so excited about who they could reach and what possibilities they could bring!
We'd love you to keep on sharing if you can 😊
We really believe, with this level of community action, we can reach our goal.
And if you have a moment, would you be willing to hit 'reply' and share with us what aspect of Empathy Angels as a service lights you up the most? We'd love to use your words for some social media posts (along with your first name and where you are in the country).
We are so grateful for your continued support.
With much excitement,
Jess & the Empathy Angels team
You need to pledge to see this update.
Almost, almost at $10K!
05/01/2023 at 3:12 PM
Guess what?
Right now we are at $9,898 and we would LOVE to reach the 5-figure milestone today!
Would you be willing to share our campaign in one way today?
Ways to share:
Social media story or post
Face-to-face convo
Contacting a business owner friend who might be keen to sponsor
Adding our campaign link and a wee blurb at the bottom of emails you send
Sharing one of our Instagram posts (tag us in!)
Or any other way that lights you up...
The momentum is building and although we're feeling pretty excited, we know we need to keep spreading the word as far and wide as we can!
With gratitude for all your support so far,
Jess & the Empathy Angel team
PS. We've got some beautiful new rewards added to our campaign - maybe you'd like to check them out?
PPS. We are all ears with any ideas you may have about sharing our campaign!
You need to pledge to see this update.
You need to pledge to see this update.
Pledgers 168
24/11/2022 at 2:41pm
23/11/2022 at 5:48pm
"Good luck angels xo Patrice"
22/11/2022 at 11:36am
22/11/2022 at 11:34am
21/11/2022 at 8:28am
"Such a beautiful vision and offering. I know this project has wings!"
18/11/2022 at 5:22pm
"Go angels!!"
18/11/2022 at 7:41am
17/11/2022 at 12:13pm
16/11/2022 at 9:21pm
"Donation with Love from Renate🤍"
16/11/2022 at 7:58pm
16/11/2022 at 7:38pm
"From my dear doggy daycare friend Denise Morris "
16/11/2022 at 7:09pm
16/11/2022 at 4:14pm
"From Toyah with Love xx"
16/11/2022 at 1:48pm
"What an amazing cause to support. You have my support always ❤️ For Daniel who was so loved by us all and who would be so proud to see what a beautiful project and cause your creating "
15/11/2022 at 8:40pm
"Thank you Empathy Angels 🙌✨ This work has the love and energy in it to change the world xxxx"
15/11/2022 at 7:36am
"Lee White"
15/11/2022 at 7:27am
"Lesley White donation - good luck!"
10/11/2022 at 3:56pm
"Empathy accessible to all. What a beautiful vision! "
09/11/2022 at 1:17pm
09/11/2022 at 9:06am
"Kia kaha with this wonderful kaupapa 💙"
08/11/2022 at 7:58pm
08/11/2022 at 12:54pm
08/11/2022 at 12:20pm
08/11/2022 at 10:25am
"I can't wait to see this happen!"
08/11/2022 at 6:01am
"Sounds wonderful Go Jessie! Love Jess and Pearl from the motherland! Xx "
07/11/2022 at 10:18pm
"So happy to be able to support this project! <3"
07/11/2022 at 8:22am
06/11/2022 at 8:09pm
04/11/2022 at 7:46pm
"This initiative gives me hope for New Zealand... that anyone can request to receive empathy, without any barriers... what a gift! 💜"
04/11/2022 at 10:29am
Followers 2
Followers of Empathy Angels
Empathy Angels
Project 2022-08-07 14:28:30 +1200
The Empathy Angels are a team of New Zealanders who care about the wellbeing of humanity. Through the practice of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) we experience the power of giving & receiving empathy with people in our lives and dream of the 'magic' reaching more people.
Our mission is to make empathy available in the form of face-to-face sessions on Zoom to the New Zealand public, and eventually the world, thanks to the online nature of the service. The sessions are scheduled via our website www.empathyangels.co.nz for a time that suits, through the Empathy Angels' calendars.
We long for empathy to be available and accessible to everyone -
sessions will be completely free of charge to recipients.
To sustain this service, the team will financially receive (in return for time, energy and skill). We have registered as an Incorporated Society to open us up to future funding opportunities.
Right now, we need your help! Your pledge will go towards setting up this service, administration and providing sessions for the first six months. By sharing our campaign with others, the project will become more seen, more supported and empathy sessions available from March 2023. We see this movement as being fueled by the people for the people and every pledge counts.
There's quite a few reward options for individuals and businesses - check them out!
The Team
So what is an empathy session?
You'll connect with an Empathy Angel on Zoom, where you'll be welcomed, as you are, into respectfully held space. You might bring to the session a current challenge, something you're wanting clarity around or something else you want to voice, yet aren't ready to share with those in your life. Your Angel listens with full presence using the skills of Nonviolent Communication. They subtly assist you further into your own experience, where you'll likely discover layers of meaning and understanding you have not yet touched. Your Angel will respond with presence and care, intuitively sensing the moments their contributions could be most helpful, always bringing it back to you and in the present. After receiving empathy, people are often left with a sense of clarity, healing, more inner peace and a way of moving forward.
What is Nonviolent Communication (NVC)?
NVC is a modality created by American psychologist Dr. Marshall B Rosenberg Ph.D, a result of his mission in understanding human behaviour and supporting individuals, communities and organisations to relate with connection & understanding. Also known as Compassionate Communication, Marshall chose the term 'Nonviolent' in reference to how Mahatma Gandhi referred to it in his movement of nonviolence, or 'ahimsa' in Sanskrit, which directly translates to 'harmlessness' or 'care for all'.
"Through NVC we learn to hear our own deeper needs and those of others. Through its emphasis on deep listening - to ourselves as well as others - NVC helps us discover the depth of our own compassion. This language reveals the awareness that all human beings are only trying to honour universal values and needs, every minute, every day.
NVC can be seen as both a spiritual practice that helps us see our common humanity, using our power in a way that honours everyone's needs, and a concrete set of skills which help us create life-serving families and communities." - Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
What happens after the six months initial service period?
As an Incorporated Society with the service operating, we'll be in a position to seek alternative funding routes. We will do what it takes for people to have ongoing empathy support. We intend to continually grow our Team of Angels, meaning more empathy sessions are available for more people.
What does the $37,000 go toward?
* Financial remuneration to the Angels for their time & energy for six months Apr-Sept 2023
* Management of the team & operations
* Marketing - making the service known and reaching those who want to use it
* Full website with confidential self-booking engine
* Rewards packaging & postage
* Campaign video
* PledgeMe commission
Supporting Businesses
These NZ businesses have joined us on our mission to create our empathy vision and have generously contributed their own products and services which are included in pledge rewards.
Comments
Post-Campaign Update
02/02/2023 at 2:24 PM
It's been just over a week since dancing across the crowdfunding finish line and boy, just tuning back into the experience of collaboration, restores any still-tired bones with vitality. Such a treat. 🙏
So what's happening now?
🌀 We've JUST finished sending rewards out to you all - yippeee!
🌀 Wheels are in motion with our website design - exciting...
🌀 Preparations with the Angel team to have the structure of our sessions completely streamlined
🌀 All other behind-the-scenes preparations to have us ready in April to begin offering our six-month pilot service
What can you do?
Speak about Empathy Angels with those in your life as an upcoming free emotional support service.
Keep hanging out with us on Instagram & Facebook to keep our community alive!
Jess & the EA team 🤍
Incredible announcement! ✨
21/01/2023 at 4:52 PM
$10,000 has been donated to our campaign by a Trust, which means we are over $30,000. Whoppeeee!!
We are collectively dancing and celebrating our way toward the finish line together, can you feel it?!!
Every pledge counts. Is there somewhere you thought about sharing and then haven't yet? Now would be the time! 🙏
Being an all-or-nothing campaign, it means we only receive the funds you've all lovingly pledged if we reach our goal.
And I'm over-joyed to share, that if there's an amount remaining, someone(s) has offered to loan us the money so we can still cross the finish line and receive all the funds to move into Part 2 of our project!!
Tonight I'll be dancing on the beach with my family, with you all in my heart.
For now, the campaign is still live and open!
With love & gratitude to you all,
Jess and the EA team
4 days to make it happen!
17/01/2023 at 10:14 AM
The support that's happening for Empathy Angels becoming a service is incredible, with many of you sharing our posts on social media... we are so excited about who they could reach and what possibilities they could bring!
We'd love you to keep on sharing if you can 😊
We really believe, with this level of community action, we can reach our goal.
And if you have a moment, would you be willing to hit 'reply' and share with us what aspect of Empathy Angels as a service lights you up the most? We'd love to use your words for some social media posts (along with your first name and where you are in the country).
We are so grateful for your continued support.
With much excitement,
Jess & the Empathy Angels team
You need to pledge to see this update.
Almost, almost at $10K!
05/01/2023 at 3:12 PM
Guess what?
Right now we are at $9,898 and we would LOVE to reach the 5-figure milestone today!
Would you be willing to share our campaign in one way today?
Ways to share:
Social media story or post
Face-to-face convo
Contacting a business owner friend who might be keen to sponsor
Adding our campaign link and a wee blurb at the bottom of emails you send
Sharing one of our Instagram posts (tag us in!)
Or any other way that lights you up...
The momentum is building and although we're feeling pretty excited, we know we need to keep spreading the word as far and wide as we can!
With gratitude for all your support so far,
Jess & the Empathy Angel team
PS. We've got some beautiful new rewards added to our campaign - maybe you'd like to check them out?
PPS. We are all ears with any ideas you may have about sharing our campaign!
You need to pledge to see this update.
You need to pledge to see this update.
24/11/2022 at 2:41pm
23/11/2022 at 5:48pm
"Good luck angels xo Patrice"
22/11/2022 at 11:36am
22/11/2022 at 11:34am
21/11/2022 at 8:28am
"Such a beautiful vision and offering. I know this project has wings!"
18/11/2022 at 5:22pm
"Go angels!!"
18/11/2022 at 7:41am
17/11/2022 at 12:13pm
16/11/2022 at 9:21pm
"Donation with Love from Renate🤍"
16/11/2022 at 7:58pm
16/11/2022 at 7:38pm
"From my dear doggy daycare friend Denise Morris "
16/11/2022 at 7:09pm
16/11/2022 at 4:14pm
"From Toyah with Love xx"
16/11/2022 at 1:48pm
"What an amazing cause to support. You have my support always ❤️ For Daniel who was so loved by us all and who would be so proud to see what a beautiful project and cause your creating "
15/11/2022 at 8:40pm
"Thank you Empathy Angels 🙌✨ This work has the love and energy in it to change the world xxxx"
15/11/2022 at 7:36am
"Lee White"
15/11/2022 at 7:27am
"Lesley White donation - good luck!"
10/11/2022 at 3:56pm
"Empathy accessible to all. What a beautiful vision! "
09/11/2022 at 1:17pm
09/11/2022 at 9:06am
"Kia kaha with this wonderful kaupapa 💙"
08/11/2022 at 7:58pm
08/11/2022 at 12:54pm
08/11/2022 at 12:20pm
08/11/2022 at 10:25am
"I can't wait to see this happen!"
08/11/2022 at 6:01am
"Sounds wonderful Go Jessie! Love Jess and Pearl from the motherland! Xx "
07/11/2022 at 10:18pm
"So happy to be able to support this project! <3"
07/11/2022 at 8:22am
06/11/2022 at 8:09pm
04/11/2022 at 7:46pm
"This initiative gives me hope for New Zealand... that anyone can request to receive empathy, without any barriers... what a gift! 💜"
04/11/2022 at 10:29am
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