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International Online Conference on:
How Can We Build a
Culture of Empathy and Compassion?
Permanently Ongoing
Sub Conference:
Home & Family
How to foster a culture of empathy within the family and
home life
http://j.mp/LARGym
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Robert Brooks: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy
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Robert Brooks is one of today's leading speakers on the
themes of resilience, motivation, and family relationships. During the
past 30 years, Dr. Brooks has presented nationally and internationally to
thousands of parents, educators, mental health professionals, and business
people with a message based on encouragement, hope, and resilience. He is
on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the former Director of the
Department of Psychology at McLean Hospital. |
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He is author or
co-author of 15 books including:
Handbook of
Resilience
and has written numerous articles about empathy.
He writes, "In my workshops and writings I have consistently
emphasized the importance of empathy as an essential skill for enriching
our lives... If empathy is not translated into behavior it will indeed be
a "sideshow." However, when empathy serves as a guiding light for our
behaviors, showing us the path that leads to compassion and caring, it
becomes a potent force that will improve the lives not only of our
children but ourselves as well. The more we bring together theory, skills,
and actions, the more we can engage in activities that permit us to lead
purposeful, fulfilling, caring lives.."
"a common characteristic of individuals who are successful as business
leaders, teachers, parents, spouses, or healthcare professionals is their
ability to be empathic. Empathic people are skilled in placing themselves
inside the shoes of another person and seeing the world through that
person’s eyes. It is not surprising that Daniel Goleman listed empathy as
one of the main components of emotional intelligence. In my activities as
a therapist and consultant as well as in my personal life, I have come to
believe that empathy is implicated in all of our relationships, impacting
on the satisfaction and effectiveness with which we interact with others."
Sub
Conference: Home & Family
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How
to Build a Culture of Empathy with Men's Groups: Owen Marcus, Ken Solin,
Edwin Rutsch |
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A discussion with Owen Marcus
and Ken Solin, both leaders in the
men's movement, on how to use
micro-communities to teach men empathy and other missing emotional
skills. Both Owen and Ken are long term workshop leaders and have a new
initiative for building a men's movement to foster Masculine Emotional
Intelligence. They hold Man Camp Weekends and have a tool kit where men
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Some of the questions addressed in this
dialog were
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How would men sitting together shift
the ‘culture of empathy’?
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What is the best way to not just
educate men about empathy, but teach the skill?
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Why are men behind on the empathy
curve?
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In your Man Camp Weekend you speak
about a man “being his own hero” – what does that mean?
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How can men learn empathy in one
weekend?
"One of the values that I think men in
particular have to pass on is the value of empathy. Not
sympathy, empathy. And what that means is standing in somebody else's
shoes, being able to look through their eyes. You know, sometimes we get
so caught up in "us" that it's hard to see that there are other people
and that your behavior has an impact on them.
And sometimes brothers in particular don't like to feel empathy, don't
like to think in terms of "How does this affect other people?" because
we think that's being soft. There's a culture in our society that says
we can't show weakness and we can't, therefore, show kindness. That we
can't be considerate because sometimes that makes us look weak."
Barack Obama
Sub
Conference: Home & Family
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Stephanie Mattei & Edwin Rutsch: How to Build a Culture of Empathy in the
Family
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Stephanie Bachmann Mattei is a
Certified Trainer with The Center for Nonviolent Communication. Parenting
is Stephanie’s niche. Parenting is a powerful and far-reaching tool for
social transformation. Mahatma Gandhi’s said, "If we are to reach real peace in the world, we
shall have to begin with the children.”
Parenting is one of the most crucial ways to bring about social change
in terms of consciousness evolution. We are moving toward a more empathic child rearing. |
How to Build a Culture of Empathy?
Presently the three main unempathic "Parenting Tools" are; Corporal
Punishment, Guilt and Shame inducing communication (verbal and non-verbal),
behavior modification through rewards carrots and sticks. Research show these approaches do not foster empathy and emotional
intelligence. In order to change a habit, we need to know what to put in its place.
We need an empathic parenting approach.
Sub
Conference: NVC and
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Conference: Home & Family
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Kenneth Barish & Edwin Rutsch: How to Build a Culture of Empathy in the
Family
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Kenneth Barish
is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College,
Cornell University.
He is also on the faculty of the Westchester Center for the Study of
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the William Alanson White Institute
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program. He is the author of Pride
and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Solving Family
Problems. |
How to Build a Culture of Empathy in
the Family?
1) It begins with our relationships with our
children. If we put aside as little as 10 - 15 minutes a day to share in
our children's interests and listen to their concerns, we strengthen
their willingness to listen to others.
2) All real dialogue begins
with our willingness to hear - and make a genuine effort to appreciate -
another person's concerns: their interests, anxieties, and grievances.
3) Then, when our children know that their feelings are valued and
important, we can teach them that so are the feelings of others.
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We can include doing for others as a regular part of our family lives.
Sub Conference: Home & Family
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Marcy Axness
& Edwin Rutsch: How to Build a Culture of Empathy in the Family
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Marcy Axness has a private
consulting-counseling practice specializing in mind-body fertility,
pregnancy psychology, adoption, and early parenting. She is author of
Parenting for
Peace: Raising the Next Generation of Peacemakers.
Marcy
also provides training for adoption, education, and mental health
professionals about the latest findings in the science of human thriving. |
How to build a culture of empathy in the family?
1. By giving our children the gift of a well-built brain -- i.e., the
frontal and occipital lobes have the circuitry they need to even process
empathy!! This begins before most people think parenting begins - in the
womb, or even earlier. It is our birthright to experience empathy, and
that right is taken from us if we don't have a well-wired brain.
2. For the child to witness and experience empathy, in an everyday,
all-day way.
3. Model empathy with our own cells, through how we care for ourselves.
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Conference: Home & Family
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