Chicago Area Empathic Friends

Collaboration is an incredibly important value for us empaths. Cooperative board games can be an excellent medium to practice empathy, communication, conflict resolution, and teamwork. Please consider joining us at our humble abode in Wheeling for our cooperative game day.

"Arkham Horror The Card Game" is an exciting and tense cooperative game where 1-4 investigators try to solve the mystery before the ancient evil gods complete their gruesome plans.

Please join us for our first ever "Personal Growth Book Club." For December we will be reading this incredibly relevant and important book about narcissism, "It's Not You" by Ramani Durvasula. Narcissism is one of the biggest problems of our western modern society and I predict it will become an important discussion point universally very soon. Let's get ahead of the curve and take our first attempt at some introspection and some good dialogue. Please come ready to be critically introspective and to speak your truth openly, but with respect. All of us are capable of narcissism, even empaths. Conflict may happen, but learning how to handle it is a part of the goal of our family.

While this group will definitely be planning and partaking in fun and exciting activities, we will also balance that out with opportunities for personal growth. Personal growth, unlike personal development or "self help," is about becoming a more emotionally mature, better self-awareness, building stronger relationships, creating a clearer sense of purpose, improving resilience to challenges, better self-expression, and increased confidence. Personal development is largely rooted in capitalism and is all about making oneself more desirable as a valuable employee or other selfish improvments. In this family, we do things to be better for ourselves AND for each other.