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Christian Keysers: The
Empathic Brain - Chapter by Chapter Book Review |
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Christian Keysers is professor and group leader of the Social Brain Lab at
the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. The lab
explores the biological nature and neuroscience of empathy.
Christian is author of 'The Empathic Brain: How the Discovery of Mirror
Neurons Changes our Understanding of Human Nature'. |
In this interview, Christian gives a chapter
by chapter narration of the book, which explores the nut's and bolts
neuroscience of empathy. In the book, he illustrates the science with
his own experiences and with stories. The journey starts at the lab in
Parma, Italy where mirror neurons were first discovered and where he
also worked.
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George Lakoff: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy
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George Lakoff is a cognitive linguist and professor of
linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is academically
most famous for his 'ideas about the centrality of metaphor to human
thinking, political behavior and society.' He says empathy is a
foundation of morality and of progressive values. |
George is the author of many academic and politically
related books.
His latest book is The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking
and Talking Democratic. 'A compact handbook on partisan political
discourse, with a blueprint for how liberals can switch from playing
defense against conservatives to launching a stronger offense.' Basing
the discourse on the foundational value of empathy. "America was founded
on a moral system and that system starts with empathy."
Sub Conference:
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Happy the Movie -
Director Roko Belic talks with Edwin Rutsch about how
Empathy is a
Foundation of Happiness |
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The core of human nature, I think, is
based on empathy and compassion. It's extremely rare to find someone
that does not empathize in some way or form naturally. The
Dalai
Lama said it best, it's not a religious
thing, it's not a political idea, this is the way we are born, this
is in our blood.
Empathy, compassion, living by the
golden rule, all of those things are so critical to, not only to
your own personal happiness, but to the sustainability of our
societies and of the human race. So empathy is, I think, one of the
core ingredients, not only for a happy life, but of a happy world.
On
Vimeo -
Youtube
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George Lewis:
How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Photography
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George Lewis is a photographer exploring the nature of
empathy. He says, "For me, one of the greatest challenges of the 21st
century is to make people more visible to one another, to find ways for
people to engage, empathize, and learn of each other’s deepest values and
concerns. We need to lay the foundations for a new global human identity,
one that transcends differences and is predicated on mutual understanding
and respect, celebrating the beauty of difference. In short my art is all
about Empathy. "
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Issidoros
Sarinopoulos: How to Build a Culture of Empathy Without
Pain in Healthcare
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Issidoros Sarinopoulos (Sid) is Assistant Professor of
Psychology at Michigan State University where he is director of the Lab
for Social and Affective Neuroscience. Sid's research interests include
the psychological and neural underpinnings of emotion, judgment, decision
making, and social behavior.
His work integrates the theories and methods of
affective and social neuroscience on the one hand, and more traditional
disciplines in the social sciences on the other. |
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Sid was part of a study looking at how an empathic
doctor-patient relationship reduces patients pain.
Listen up, doc: Empathy raises patients’ pain tolerance.
"A doctor-patient relationship built on trust and empathy
doesn’t just put patients at ease – it actually changes the brain’s
response to stress and increases pain tolerance, according to new findings
from a Michigan State University research team."
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Ron MacLean: How to Build a Culture of Empathy
with Fiction
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Ron MacLean is author of the novels Headlong and Blue
Winnetka Skies and the story collection Why
the Long Face? His fiction has appeared in GQ, Fiction International,
Best Online Fiction 2010, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of the Frederick
Exley Award for Short Fiction and a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. He
teaches at Grub Street in Boston. |
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Ron wrote the article,
Is
Fiction Empathy’s Best Hope? We
discussed his article and the relationship of empathy and fiction writing.
He writes,
"What I do care about is the loss of our ability to identify with others.
Empathy is a muscle that must be exercised lest it atrophy. It’s a seed
that must be cultivated in order to grow—to live. And in a sped-up society
in which connection is increasingly fleeting and often virtual, we can’t
take empathy for granted anymore.....
It’s paradoxical, even absurd—this idea that made-up
stories can develop in us an essential human quality. The idea that
reading about people who don’t exist could expand our capacity to care
about, and act on behalf of, people who do. But it’s true."
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Panel 22: Empathy and Yoga:
Yoga is a tool kit for Empathy
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Nixa
De Bellis
Michael Hewett
Elena Brower
Edwin Rutsch |
Yoga is a
tool kit for Empathy. In its methods we cultivate a feeling sense
of ourselves and the world. We both take measure of our own person
and revel in the multitude of relationships through an awareness
practice of deeper than ordinary looking and listening.
The logic of our differences, our similarities and
our sameness is not evident without practice, and so we have the
yoga technologies for actively engaging ourselves, our families,
our communities and our world.
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Suzanne Jones: How to Build a Culture of Empathy
with Yoga
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Suzanne Jones is a professional yoga instructor concerned
by the disparity in access to yoga practice as a powerful tool for
empowerment and recovery.
YogaHOPE
was created to facilitate access to yoga and meditation education
specifically for women experiencing debilitating life transitions – those
establishing independence from domestic violence, self-sufficiency from
homelessness, recovery from drug addiction, or rehabilitation after mental
illness. Sue recently wrote an article about empathy and yoga titled,
Exercise Your Empathy. |
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She writes, "...when I was in the darkest time of my life
and planning my one shot at doing something right (ie. removing myself
from the world via swallowing a butt load of pain killers) I happened to
stumble into a yoga class. And as I learned how to really breathe and
concentrated on how to move my body in class and pay attention to how my
body was feeling inside, I activated these brain regions. I exercised my
empathy...
Because without empathy, we begin to stop being kind to ourselves. And
when that happens, we begin to withdraw from others and the cycle of
insidious self-destruction begins. Our brains are social organs and in
isolation they begin to suffer."
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Geshe Lobsang Negi: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy
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Geshe Lobsang Negi serves as Co-Director of the Emory-Tibet
Science Initiative and Co-Director of the Emory Collaborative of
Contemplative Studies. " In addition, he has contributed to the development
of a number of programs linking Emory University with Tibetan institutions
of higher learning in India.
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His career has focused on the potential of mind to affect
well-being on physical, emotional an mental levels and is now centered in
three areas: Clinical research on the behavioral, immune and stress impacts
of contemplative practices; Developing and implementing a science
curriculum for Tibetan monastics; and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism both at
Emory University and Atlanta's Drepung Loseling." He is also the developer
of the
Cognitive-Based
Compassion Training (CBCT) which
draws on the the lojong tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to foster
compassion. This
training was studied to determine it's effectiveness in fostering
empathy by
Jennifer Mascaro
at Emory University.
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John Wenger: How to Build a Culture of
Empathy in Business
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John
Wenger works at Quantum Shift in New Zealand. He
says, "As a sociatrist, I’m passionate about people in business
developing greater ability to stand in each others’ shoes.
It’s one of the
cornerstones of the work we do at Quantum Shift and is central to nurturing
greater health in organizations. This is often given the name “empathy... |
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There is an embodied knowing that comes via the act of
role reversal, beyond mere thought and cognitive understanding, which
facilitates a deeper ability to live in someone else’s skin. Getting
this at a head, heart and gut level changes our world beyond what we
thought possible. It becomes harder to switch off our empathy and behave
as if people are mere resources when we have a full experience of what
it’s like for them." |
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Joshua Aaron Ginzler: How
to Build a Culture of Empathy-Compassion with Education |
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Joshua Aaron Ginzler is a
Psychologist with a focus on Mindfulness-Based Psychology which teaches
that thoughts simply exist & are your brain's attempt to make sense of your
emotional state & the external world. |
He says, "I am establishing
the only private center to bring a cadre of evidence-based
Mindfulness Psychology programs to the community in order to better
prepare the community to support the individuals and families that they
contain. "
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Thubten Chodron: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Buddhism
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Thubten Chodron is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun and a
central figure in reinstating the ordination of women. She is founder and
Abbess of Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery near Newport, Washington.
Thubten is active in interfaith dialogue and does Dharma outreach in
prisons She is the author of many books, including,
Cultivating a
Compassionate Heart: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig. |
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How
to build a culture of empathy and compassion?
1. Education in schools (how to identify emotions, how to work with them
inside, how to express them, how to empathize, non-violent
communication)
2. Media (influence what the media reports, what constitutes
entertainment? show examples of healthy conflict resolution)
3. Individuals familiarizing themselves with empathy and compassion on a
daily basis
4. Workplace (the feeling in the company depends a lot on the leader,
talks or courses an working with anger)
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Kay
Pranis: How to Build a Culture of Empathy
with Circle
Process
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Kay Pranis is an independent trainer and facilitator for
peacemaking circles, as well as, an advocate and leader in Restorative Justice and Circle Process movements.
Kay has been involved in the development of circle processes in criminal
justice, schools, neighborhoods, families and the workplace. She is author of,
The Little Book Of Circle Processes: A
New/Old Approach To Peacemaking. |
"We have raised an entire generation without the prerequisites for
developing empathy and then are outraged when they seem not to care
about the impact of their behavior on others. We did not consciously
decide to raise them without empathy, but that is the result of
significant changes in our social behavior . The development of empathy requires:1. regular
feedback about how our actions are affecting others, respectfully
communicated
2. relationships in which we are valued and our worth is validated
3. experience of sympathy from others when we are in pain "
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Russell Kolts: How to Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion
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Russell Kolts is a professor in psychology at Eastern
Washington University. His current research and professional work is
focused upon Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and the application of CFT
in working with emotional difficulties, particularly anger and attachment
disturbances. |
Russell is author of 'The
Compassionate Mind Approach to Managing Your Anger.' The
Compassionate-Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger will show you how to
take responsibility for your anger and your life by cultivating a new
strength: the power of compassion.
Russell hosts the
CompassionateMind.net
website, which is the online hub of the Inland Northwest Compassionate Mind Center.
The center is committed to the development and application of
evidence-based practices utilizing the purposeful cultivation of
compassion and mindfulness to promote wellbeing.
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Lynne Henderson:
Shyness, Anxiety & How to Build a Culture of Empathy
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Lynne Henderson is director of the
Shyness Institute
and Director of the Stanford Shyness Clinic for over 25 yrs.
Lynne is author of
Building Social Confidence: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome
Shyness and Social Anxiety.
The
book offers
a supportive program based in compassion-focused therapy for moving past
social anxiety and the self-critical thoughts that propel it.
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How to build a culture of empathy?
1. Each of us practicing mindfulness and empathy ourselves consistently.
Making mindfulness part of daily life, continuing to increase the number
of classes/groups that have formed around mindfulness, disseminating
these from elementary school on.
2. Increasing funding for research related to mindfulness and empathy,
focusing on the beneficial results of empathy on the well being of self
and others.
3. Increasing the focus on and conducting more research on compassion
based psychotherapies such as my Social Fitness Training for shyness,
Gilbert’s Compassion Focused Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy. My book,
4. Increasing the understanding and practice
of compassion throughout the world through internet information
dissemination and putting psychological interventions online.
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Daryl Cameron:
How to Build a Culture of Empathy-Compassion with Science
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Daryl Cameron is a social psychology doctoral candidate at
UNC Chapel Hill. "I work at the crossroads of social psychology and
philosophy. My research examines the relationship between implicit social
cognition and moral decisions: how do automatic affective reactions and
deliberative reasoning interact to shape our moral lives?" Daryl's research focuses on the causes and consequences of compassion regulation;
and how implicit emotional processes contribute to moral decision-making.
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"Psychological studies show that people feel more compassion for a
single victim than for multiple victims, a finding that has been
called "the collapse of compassion." The collapse of compassion should
strike you as shocking. Most people predict that they would --
and should -- feel more compassion if more people are suffering. Yet
people's emotional responses to actual victims tell otherwise. "
Daryl says, one way to increase empathy and compassion is
to make helping easy and not overwhelming. Create small easy steps that
people can do. Also develop trainings that build empathy and
compassionate resilience.
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Piercarlo Valdesolo:
How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Science
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Piercarlo Valdesolo is
an Assistant Professor of
Psychology and head of the Moral Emotions and Trust Lab at
Claremont McKenna College. "I study the role of emotions in social and moral decision making. My
research program investigates the role of emotion in social judgment, with
a specific focus on how affective processes shape moral decisions and
prosocial/antisocial behavior at both the individual and intergroup levels." |
Piercarlo has two
main lines of research. One focuses on the role of synchronous movement
in arousing prosocial emotional responses. Two is on the psychological biases that contribute to unethical decision making and corruption within institutions and organizations.
One way Piercarlo says we can build empathy is by being more open and revealing more of
ourselves.
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Dee
Reynolds: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with
Kinesthetic Empathy
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Dee Reynolds is
professor of French at the University of Manchester.
Dee
is editor/author of,
among other books, Kinesthetic
Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices.
A
key interdisciplinary concept in our understanding of social interaction
across creative and |
cultural practices, kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to
experience empathy merely by observing the movements of another human
being.
Dee is a founder of the 'Watching Dance: Kinesthetic
Empathy' project that uses audience research and neuroscience to explore
how dance spectators respond to and identify with dance. It is a
multidisciplinary project, involving collaboration across organizations
and four institutions. The project has a website, Ning group and held a
conference.
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Panel 6: How does
Empathy Show up in Your Restorative Justice Work? |
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Deb Witzel
Rhea Blash
Laura Snider
Beverly Title
Edwin Rutsch |
1. How do you all think restorative justice helps
build empathy? Do you have a story of when you saw it or felt it?
2. When you are sitting in a restorative justice process how do
you know when empathy is happening?
3. What ways do you work to build empathy when doing restorative
justice?
4. What else would you like to say about restorative justice and
empathy?
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Kathryn Lee:
How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Education
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Kathryn Lee is Director of Innovation, Partnerships, and
Service at Prospect Sierra School in El Cerrito, California. She was an
organizer of the
'TEDxGoldenGateED: Compassion and Education Conference'
held in Richmond, California which had over 700 attendees. Prospect
Sierra is an innovative school that has been at the forefront of
incorporating empathy and compassion into it's curriculum including the
Root's of Empathy,
the StartEmpathy programs, etc.. |
How can we build a culture of empathy?
Celebrate, Educate, Discover, and Uncover. I believe that empathy
is not only a muscle that needs regular exercise to stay strong, but
that there are stages in the development of empathy, and essential
skills to be learned. For example, if you feel for other people,
but your speech doesn't convey that, then you might not really be
helping to create a more empathetic society.
Also, to be an effective communicator
in the world, one must know how to listen for understanding, convey
that in words and body language, AND have advocacy skills. We can't
listen our way out of a problem. Sometimes empathy requires strong
action -- compassion -- and it might not always be cum-by-ah.
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Bhismadev Chakrabarti:
How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Science
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Bhismadev Chakrabarti
heads
a research group at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and
Neurodynamics at the University of Reading, UK. The group studies emotion
perception, empathy, and autism using functional MRI, eye gaze tracking,
and psychophysiology. He works in collaboration with the Autism
Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Bhisma
shared his insights into the physical nature of empathy and how we can
build a culture of empathy.
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"Empathy is the lens through which we view emotions in others. The highly
empathic can sense others' emotions automatically, while those with
lower empathy are
often marked by a deficit in picking up socio-emotional cues from other
people. Empathy exists in a continuum across the population, and our
research here targets the following questions:
a) how does empathy influence the perception of emotions in others and
in ourselves?
b) what are the neural and behavioral processes underlying empathy?"
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Charles Eisenstein: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with
Sacred Economics
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Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of
civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.
He is author of: Sacred
Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies
to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to
alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and
necessitated endless growth.
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David Hazen
(author,
Love Always Wins:
Hope for Healing the Epidemic of Violence) and Edwin Rutsch,
interview
Charles about how to transform society and build a culture of empathy.
How to move from a culture of separateness, alienation, greed and
selfishness to empathy, gift, connection and love.
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Erika Rosenberg:
Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Education |
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Erika Rosenberg offers scientifically-
and practically-based training and consultation in a wide range of
areas associated with the study and/or understanding of human
emotion, facial expressions of emotion, and the improvement of
emotional functioning through meditation.
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Erika has been practicing meditation for
over 20 years. She is a senior teacher for Project Compassion at
the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
(CCARE) at Stanford University where she teaches the 9-week
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). The training combines
science, mindfulness and Compassionate Communications traditions.
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Jim
says we have to go beyond mindfulness to
a
transcendent
connection between people. We can get beyond loneliness, isolation
and depression to have a more
sustained happiness, by contributing to the wellbeing of others.
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Leah
Weiss Ekstrom: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion
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Leah Weiss Ekstrom is a Contemplative Educator whose
research and teaching focuses on the application of meditation in secular
contexts.
Currently, Leah is Director of Compassion Education at Stanford's
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). |
Leah directs the CCARE: Compassion Training Course (CTC) professional
education program as well as other educational initiatives such as the
application of compassion meditation in schools.
"The
Compassion Training Course is a nine-week program designed to develop
the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness for oneself and for
others. The CTC integrates traditional contemplative practices with
contemporary psychology and scientific research on compassion. The
program was developed at Stanford University by a team of contemplative
scholars, clinical psychologists, and researchers."
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Joey Katona: How to Build a Culture of Empathy in Education
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Joey Katona is the Project Manager for the Empathy Initiative (StartEmpathy.org)
at the world’s leading social entrepreneurship organization, Ashoka. He
leads a small core team working to launch the Empathy Initiative in the US
and globally. He participates in the strategic development of the start-up
and works to creatively manage the day-to-day operations. |
Joey develops
ways to help the team stay on track toward its goals -- coordinating,
sourcing, and following up on various partner and funder leads and
helping manage external relationships. "Start Empathy, is
a community of individuals and institutions dedicated to building a
future in which every child masters empathy...
Start Empathy is not out to build a single program,
curriculum, or silver-bullet fix. Rather, we're working to unleash
demand for empathy as a core 21st century skill – collaborating with
social entrepreneurs, educators, parents, and key players in the media,
business, and academic sectors to make empathy as essential as reading
and math in early education. Success will take all of us, and will
require rethinking how we parent, educate, and raise our children in a
world that is changing faster than ever before. "
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Laura Zax:
Dialogs on How to Start Building a Culture of Empathy in Education
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Laura Zax is Editor of the
StartEmpathy.org website. Start Empathy, an initiative of
Ashoka, is a community of
individuals and institutions dedicated to building a future in which every
child masters empathy. Laura is also
CEO & Co-Founder - The Nighttime Adventure Society. "I make music and
mischief". |
"Empathy is critical both to individual human development and to our
collective ability to solve problems and build a stronger society.
Cultivating empathy can start with really simple actions, like taking
the time to stop, breathe, and listen when your child comes to you with
a problem. It can start with a bedtime story. It can start by
understanding what your strengths are as a school or as a teacher, and
in honing in on ways you can embed empathy into your teaching, culture,
and behavior. The bottom line: it can start today."
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Meg
Lyons: How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion with
Charter for Compassion Pakistan
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Meg Lyons is
Executive Officer of the
Charter for Compassion in Pakistan. Meg talked to us via her laptop while
being driven through the streets of Karachi, Pakistan at night. It really
brought home the power of communications technology to bring people
together. |
Meg talked about her value of courage
and authenticity, as well as, about her work of promoting the Charter for
Compassion in Pakistan.
'The Charter of Compassion is a cooperative effort to restore not only
compassionate thinking but, more importantly, compassionate action to
the center of our lives. Our programs, tools, and activities allow our
stakeholders and partners the opportunity to explore the value of
collaboration, empathy, and compassion within their own respective
entities, and institutionalize these positive changes across all
sections of society. '
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Muna
Awad: Building Empathy with Charter for Compassion - Jordan
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Muna
Awad is
Programs Director at the
Charter for Compassion-Jordan.
She has 15 years of experience working in
education as teacher, trainer and private tutor. She worked as head of
department for training youth. |
Muna
developed creative positive parenting tools: “Mother’s ToolBox” to help
parents creatively overcome the challenges they face raising their children
and be able to inspire them to become better people. She feels
education is the best way to build a culture of empathy and compassion .
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Carolyn Pedwell:
Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy
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Carolyn Pedwell is a
Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies,
School of Arts and Cultures,
Newcastle University
in the UK. Author
Feminism,
Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison.
Forthcoming Book: Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of
Empathy. |
How to build a culture of empathy? .Realizing that 'empathy' is not one thing and that it may not always
be positive. A critical approach to thinking through the politics of
empathy needs to consider the ways in which empathy may produced,
mobilized and be felt differently across different times, spaces and
contexts. It also needs to take into account the risks and
contradictions of practices of empathetic engagement, as well as their
more productive possibilities. Rather than thinking about
empathy as a discrete or singular emotion, I'd recommend that we think
more critically about the ways in which it is linked with other
emotions, such as power, shame, etc.
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Susan
Partnow: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion
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Susan Partnow is an organizational development and training
consultant and teaches
Compassionate Listening and many other |
empathy and compassion building processes Contributor
to the book: Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening
How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion?
1. Set the Intention (value it; talk about it; name and invite it).
2. Slow down to the speed of wisdom to make
space for it.
3. From the Inside Out: Cultivate self awareness and regulation - know
your triggers; do the practice with compassion & BE Compassion.
4. Build community from these principles - to embrace conflict,
differences, challenges as opportunities to deepen intimacy,
understanding, connection - and find creative solutions like Restorative
Circles.
Sub Conferences:
Education
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Jan
Hutton: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion
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Jan has served as a community organizer, social
worker in hospice and hospital settings, meditation teacher, group
facilitator in the Quaker community and, she hopes, a ‘kind’ person. The
guiding principle for Jan’s work as a facilitator is, “How do we look at
those who differ from us and see our shared humanity?”
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She
offers Compassionate Listening Training with the
strong belief that implementing peacemaking in the public sector makes
it vital that we practice, heart to heart, that very same peacemaking
in our personal lives. To build a culture of empathy we each
take responsibility for acknowledging the fear that our own hearts
might break when empathizing with someone else's pain?
Sub Conferences:
Education
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Patricia
Jennings: How to Build a Culture of Empathy in Education
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Patricia (Tish) Jennings is Co-Leader of the "Program on Empathy Awareness and
Compassion in Education (PEACE)" at Penn State University.
"The PEACE area seeks
to promote health and wellbeing in children, youth and families through the
scientific understanding and promotion of awareness, compassion and
empathy. The program includes faculty, research associates and students
whose work focuses on developing a strong multidisciplinary science in this
emerging area. |
PEACE supports
interdisciplinary scholarly activities ranging from theoretical essays
to basic research on the development of awareness, compassion and
empathy, to the design and evaluation of interventions intended to
foster these attributes in individuals and relationships."
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Dahlia Lithwick: How to Build a Culture of Empathy on the Supreme Court
and Beyond
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Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for
Slate and
is a commentator on various national media programs such as NPR, Rachael
Maddow Show, Democracy Now, etc. She has written and commented on the role of empathy
in relationship to the Supreme Court, same-sex
marriage and woman's issues. |
There was a
great deal of contention
and confusion about the nature of empathy during the last Supreme
Court nomination hearings. We talked about preparing now, for the next
Senate discussions and debates about the role of empathy in the justice
system and Supreme Court.
"When Obama talked about
empathy in “The Audacity of Hope,” he was very, very clear. He
didn‘t want judges to make stuff up so that the poor guy wins. What he
said is, put yourself in the other person‘s shoes, right? That was his
mom‘s credo.
When he talks about
empathy, I think all he‘s saying is, just listen. Listen to what
the other side is saying. See if there is merit to their argument.
And then think it through."
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Conference: Justice and
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Howard
Zehr: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Restorative Justice
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Widely known as “the grandfather of restorative justice,”
Zehr began as a practitioner and theorist in restorative justice in the
late 1970s at the foundational stage of the field. Author of many books
including
The Little Book of Restorative Justice. |
We talked about the role of empathy as a foundational value in the
restorative justice movement. Edwin thinks a more accurate term would be
restorative empathy. Howard has said, "This vision of mutuality is
supported by neuro science and attachment theory. The new neuro science
is teaching us that we as a human being, our brains are designed to
connect with other people."
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Stanford University Conference: Happiness Within Reach from
Empathy & Compassion |
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A one day long conference on
happiness at Stanford University. The importance of empathy,
self-compassion, compassion and connecting with others to being
happy was a constant theme.. "And it turns out that this fear of having compassion for yourself
is strongly correlated with fear of having compassion for others,
and a lack of willingness to extend compassion to others. Self
compassion is not letting ourselves off the hook and being self
indulgent, it's about choosing to use our own happiness and our own
desire for meaning and connection with others as our primary
motivation, as opposed to using guilt shame and fear as our primary
motivation." |
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