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well as, helping to build a culture of empathy and compassion.
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entered. This is easier to do and the typical approach we use.
Below are examples of this type of
transcription.
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Hi Edwin, I finished the transcript. I hope its OK?
I quite enjoy it! Marcelle Kors
I enjoy doing this when
I have enough time, so I will definitely do another soon. Like you
say, It's a great way to really integrate the information, I'm
dyslexic, so these videos are great for me to learn what normally can
be laid out in such a dry, academic way.
It's very interesting experiencing how many of the academics
researching in this area are so warm and humane, its a far easier way
to learn then because you respond to the facts through the person who
has truly lived them, this of course is such a large part of what the
whole empathy culture thing is about. By spending more time and care
with the transcription one is, in effect able to get more into the
minds of others, it's how I often developed characters as an actor,
It's a lovely thing to do.
I certainly feel very strengthened in my own empathic growing journey
since 'meeting' so many beautiful pioneering people through these
wonderful videos of yours, and just hearing a constant outpouring of
optimism and positive facts and ideas, it has a very powerful effect
on the mind.
I believe art contains an encoded form of the experience of the
artist. Maynard Soloman said 'All art is a constantly renewable form
of energy'. And because for me my own art processes are primarily
developing my own empathy, my reconnecting with myself and the world,
I wonder if and how that 'renewable' experience is helpful to others
in the same way, perhaps without them even knowing? Magic? Mimesis?
It's all about passing it on, igniting those around you. Exciting!
Good to part of the team, Warm regards to you, Alexis Strauss
Here is a sample of an Outline
Transcription below Charles Halpern on Empathy, Meditation, Barack Obama, Justice and Law
Sample
00:00 Introduction
Charlie Halpern
Practiced Public Interest Law
Legal Educator
Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law
Interest in combining mediation, law and
empathy
Empathy is a quality to be cultivated in
lawyers and the legal system
Held Mindfulness and Lawyer conference at UC
Berkeley
very successful, 180 attendees.
02:00 - Definition of empathy
see the world from others point of view.
make a connection with others emotionally
and cognitively
make connections with other's feelings is
core to me
O2:50 - Metaphor of empathy?
standing in others shoes and looking though
their eyes
experiencing the others heart
a person who is deeply empathetic - also can
free themselves from their own values, perceptions, and identity. don't
feel bound by their preconceptions
being locked into your own views closes you
off.
5:00 Wrote a article about Barack Obama,
justice and empathy?
California Daily Law Journal
Obama had made empathy an important value in
his campaign
Curing the national empathy deficit.
making empathic connection is essential
I was drawn to his unusual background,
living in Indonesia, etc.
because of unusual upbringing, empathy was
important to him
Obama also said that empathy was a quality
for judges to have.
I thought - how can you select Supreme Court
Judges?
thought about the way of actually doing it
people don't put empathy on their resume
how to find people who care about empathy
how do we recognize people with empathy?
how did a person spend their career
have they represented people who are
disadvantaged
did they get out of their own framework,
values, etc.
Obama is example. Was Harvard law review
editor but went to represent disadvantaged
11:50 I started thinking how you find those
people and bring them forward.
create a template questionnaire for judges
create an evaluation criteria for empathy
12:40 It's a revolutionary idea
if this criteria were explored and applied,
it would have huge ramification
it would change the legal process
it would change the way we educate lawyers
legal training in law today in not a
training in empathy.
now, empathy is rather a handicap in legal
education today
if empathy we're a criteria in selecting
legal judges, that would change.
and that would be a wonderful thing
13:30 Sounds like empathy really
spoke to you and your values?
