Empathic Support Systems are agreements that enable participants to access a quality of shared interpersonal attention that tends to facilitate creativity, contemplation and action.
Empathic here refers to an event which removes the blocks to creative action, revealing resources that enable a transformation of current circumstances.
Sometimes the term empathy is also used to describe a quality of attention which is observed to make such an event more likely.
Support can manifest in many forms. Several social systems might accompany the different qualities of support - material, developmental... - that different activities require. Here the focus is on the specific quality of support we are calling empathic.
System here refers to an arrangement of elements and agreements that make empathic support ongoing available.