Notes to sort

Actual Techniques for Deepening Empathy
What is the essences of the various empathy lesson plans?

• Circle process

• Talking approaches

  • reflective listening

    • (wikipedia)

    • Reflective Listening — One-page summary used by National Health Care for the Homeless Council

  • rephrasing

  • summarizing

  • A
    
    ctive listening

    • Active Listening - YouTube Playlist 64 videos

  • needs guessing (NVC)

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• Modeling

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• Somatic approaches

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• Arts

  • Story Telling

  • Role playing - Acting

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• Mindfulness

  • Eight Weeks Through Mindfulness Meditation Training

• Others

  • Empathy Learning Techniques for Children

    • Modeling

    • Correcting

    • Hypothetical Scenarios

    • Label Feelings

• Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education - an inspiration of how to teach a subject online with video. Breaking the task down into small learnable steps that one can follow at ones own pace.

• Empathy starting with Self-empathy - connecting with your own feelings.

• Advanced Empathy Training for Visionaries John Marshall Roberts gives a brief introduction to his new web based learning experience "Igniting Inspiration 101: Advanced Empathy Training for Business and Social Visionaries."

• Role Playing - imagination

  • Sam Richards - A Radical Experiment in Empathy

  • Healthy Discoveries - Empathy Training  Doctors taught empathy techniques by theater professors show improved bedside manner, according to a pilot study by a Virginia Commonwealth

  Course: Empathy for parents: raising empathic children, teaching empathy
  Description: Empathy for parents: raising empathic children defines Empathy, shows you the fundamental approaches to foster empathy by inspiring you children by example.

• Compassionate Mind Foundation  "Compassion focused therapy is based on cognitive behavioural therapy, although it integrates work from other therapies, particularly mindfulness, attachment based therapies and mentalizing. Tony Roth and colleagues have been doing excellent work on trying to identify core competencies and for the most part, I think, these are absolutely key for CFT too."

   

Sub headings

• Reflective Listening

• Active Listening

• Compassionate Listening

• Mediation

• E.A.R.S - Empathies, Ask Questions, Rephrase, Summaries

• Restorative Justice

• Self-compassion

• Self-empathy

• Experiential

• Role Playing

• Meditation - Mindfulness

• Arts

 

 

Let's Find Organizations that Already Have Empathy Curriculums
The start of a directory of Empathy Activities and Curriculums
Add Empathy Activities, Lesson Plans, Curriculum to this google doc page:
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)

• Psychology 

  • Empathic Counseling Techniques

• Conflict Resolution

  • Mediation

    • The Larger Mediation Community

      There are many mediation centers around the country

      • National Association for Community  Mediation - Centers Map
        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 programmes.

  •  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

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• 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.

• 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

  • 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.

• Various Advice articles and blogs

  • Teaching Empathy Magazine

  • Empathy In Education Magazine

• many, many more to come

 

 

Activities

• Mind Mapping (pictorial brainstorming)

  • Mind Mapping on Empathy

    • draw everything that comes to mind

    • write up your outline

    • discuss with your group

  • Mind Mapping on your values

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• Drawing

  • Metaphors

    • Metaphor of Empathy

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    • Metaphor of Opposite of Empathy

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    • Dialogue between the Two

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    • Dialog between peoples Metaphors

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  • Your Value

    • Draw metaphor of your value

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    • Relationship of your value to empathy

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• Listening activities (broken down into small steps)

  • Empathic listening

  • Talk - listen

  • Reflect

  • Presence

  • Non Empathy

    • Judgments

    • Analysis

    • Fixing

    • Me too

    • Withdrawing presence

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• Simulating the life of others

  • Handicapping yourself to see what it's like to be handicapped

    • students_get_lesson_in_empathy.html

  • Woman who put on props to simulate the aged and handicapped

    • How an industrial designer discovered the elderly

  • People go live on the streets to see what homeless is like
     

• Types of Empathy

  • One on one

  • Group empathy

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• Story of empathy

• Do a drawing of scenes from the story

• Go around the table and tell a story of empathy

• When was it experienced

• When was it not experienced

• Definition of empathy

• the synonyms of empathy

• Values Circle

  • your most important value

• Acting out a metaphor

• Mirroring

  • Carolyn's - imitating activity

• Develop an activity

• Listening activities

  • Empathic Listening - check many exercise out on the internet

  • non empathy

• The feeling of empathy - the visceral sensation

• Acting out Empathy

• some task ideas, let me know your task list ideas
   

• Maybe create a team of people that want to do this, Like an empathy curriculum wiki

•  send out an email to my 25,000 list and see if others would like to help

• can we get funding for this project?

• Create a structure where we can have continuous improvement

Resources

• humanityquest.com - art_activities

• Teacher's Guide: Empathy (Grades 3 to 5)

• Teacher's Guide: Empathy (Grades 9 to 12)

• The Arts at NCDD Events

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