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The start of a directory of Empathy Activities and Curriculums
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Existing Empathy-Compassion Curriculum.doc
 

• Compassionate Listening Project

• Empathic Listening:

  • Empathic Approach: Listening First Aid

• Active Listening  (info at  wikipedia)

  • Active Listening - YouTube Playlist 64 videos

• Circle process

  • Wide variety of Circle processes that use empathy to connect people at a deeper level
    Circles - Articles describing the various uses of the circle process.

• Nonviolent Communications  (NVC Wikipedia) - Trainers Map

  • (mainenvcnetwork.org-practice)

• Conflict Resolution

  • Mediation

    • The Larger Mediation Community  - World Centers Map

      There are many mediation centers around the country

      • National Association for Community  Mediation
        Community mediation assists and empowers individuals and organizations to engage, transform, and resolve conflicts through the use of collaborative, constructive processes.
        Community mediation helps you get heard, get healed, and get back to your life!

      • Seeds - Community Mediation in Berkeley. Partners in this project (I've talked with them about putting their 40 hour certification curriculum online. I took this course and it was all about how to use empathy to mediate conflicts).

      • Mesa County Partners Victim - Empathy classes are an eight hour program that is designed to educate delinquent youth on what crime victim’s experience. Over 200 juveniles participated in 2010.

      • Article about the role of empathy in mediation The Empathy Debate:The Role of Empathy in
        Law, Mediation, and the New Professionalism Emily J. Gould

  • Restorative Justice - Restorative justice emphasizes repairing the harm caused by crime.  It is an empathy based process for restoring connection between victims, offenders and affected  community.

    • Rjoy Oakland

    • Oakland Unified School District | Restorative Justice Programs

  • Restorative Circles

    • A Restorative Circle is a community process for supporting those in conflict. It brings together the three parties to a conflict – those who have acted, those directly impacted and the wider community – within an intentional systemic context, to dialogue as equals. Participants invite each other and attend voluntarily. The dialogue process used is shared openly with all participants, and guided by a community member. The process ends when actions have been found that bring mutual benefit.
      Practice Manuals - Manuals from various restorative justice programs.

  •  Centers for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies

    • Fresno Pacific University PACS

    • Peace and Conflict Studies UC Berkeley

    • Eastern Mennonite University Center for Justice & Peacebuilding

    • Peace Making Circles, A Process for Solving Problems and Building Community

• Mindfulness - Meditation, etc. traditions

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    • 8-week mindfulness meditation

  • CCARE

    • Compassion Cultivation Training

    • Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) for Adults

    • The Science of the Compassionate Mind (PSY 212)

  • Mindful Self-Compassion: Core Skills Training

    • This weeklong journey into mindfulness and self-kindness is a condensed version of psychologists Christopher K. Germer and Kristin Neff’s eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion training program. It provides simple tools for responding and treating yourself in a respectful, compassionate way whenever you suffer, fail, or feel inadequate.

• Psychology 

  • Empathic Counseling Techniques

• Social Work Service Organizations

  • Arizona State University - School of Social work

  • Importance of empathy for social work practice

• Arts

  • “The Appleton Compassion Project” is a community art project involving 10,436 Appleton Area School District K-12 art students. In Fall 2010, participating students received a 6-inch-by-6-inch art panel to draw or paint their idea of compassion

• School Based Empathy-Compassion Programs

  • Roots of Empathy

  • Ashoka  Empathy in School Initiative

  • Community of Mindful Parents We offer two parenting groups, Listening Mothers and Reflective Parenting, both with research based curriculums that promote strong family bonds and sets the foundation for long lasting emotional health.

  • TEDx - Compassion In Education

• Various Advice articles and blogs

  • Teaching Empathy Magazine

  • Empathy In Education Magazine

• many, many more to come