How to Teach or Learn Empathy?
 

1. Have the Intention to do it

• Why do he have the intention?
  • the way it feels -
    • Carl Rodgers - feels damm good
    • sense of deepening closeness
    • feeling open
• Make empathy an ongoing practice

Different forms of empathy
Like every word  - people use it differently especially the academics. Plus there's always confusion and misunderstanding, etc.
It helps to understand the parts of empathy as well so that we can strengthen the parts that may need it. Just like our body have different mussels, metaphorically,  there a different muscles that make up our empathy

• Self-Empathy
  • more sensory awareness of your body
  • do Oxytocin releasing activities
    • touch
    • hugs
  • exercise
  • mindfulness - mediation exercises
• Mirrored-Empathy
  • Watching movies
  • Reading Fiction
  • reflection
  • reflective listening
  • mirroring releases Oxytocin releasing
• Imaginative-Empathy
  • role playing 
  • acting -
  • empathy circles - role playing different parts of yourself.
  • re
• Empathic creativity - action

• Some people say You can't teach empathy.
  •  who said that?
  •  can you teach empathy?
• We are born with the capacity for empathy and do it all the time. We empathize naturally with mirror neuron. It's a matter how to teach the deepening of empathy.
  • it's ongoing
• Removing the blocks
  • Stress
  • Fear   - sea anemone metaphor
  • judgments
• Relaxation
• Oxytocin releasing
  • hugs
  • physical touch
  • giving birth
• We can hone it and strengthen the empath muscle.
• Empathy Circles
  • mirroring
  • reflective listening
• Service Projects
• Role Playing
• Exercise - relaxes you - allows you to be more open to naturally empathize.
• Stories
  • a family  were empathy was valued
  • a family  were empathy was not valued
• People have pop psychology list of things you can do to learn empathy
• Nonviolent Communication approaches for deepening empathy
• Learning by seeing empathy modeled
  • [stories]
• Some programs for fostering empathy
  • Roots of Empathy
  • NVC -
  • Listening skills
  • Mediation - Restorative Justice

Articles About leaning Empathy

How To Care: Three Empathy Building Exercises For Work And Home
"You may be familiar with the following three exercises – in fact, I remember practicing some of them when I was a kid – but they can help build your empathic abilities right away by getting you to observe the people around you.

• Mirroring - There are 2 types of mirroring exercises – physical and emotional.
• Active Listening - Active listening, also called reflective or empathetic listening, is making a conscious effort to hear what another person is saying and understand the complete message that’s being sent
• Communication Style Profiling -  The best way to display empathy toward those whose communication style does not match your own is to learn to communicate with them on their terms. If you understand how they give and receive information, you’ll be able to communicate more efficiently and more empathetically."

List of Step by Step Activities

• Listening to the other person talk 5 minutes
• Reflecting back what person said
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• Roots of Empathy - training approach
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Teaching empathy

• learning Empathy from reading books, from watching movies.
  • "One of the most fascinating aspects of fiction film is that it enables us not just to how empathy can happen in a drama, but to experience how it can work strongly in ourselves. Four months, three weeks, and two days shows us the workings of empathy both in its plot and in our experience as we watch the film."
• how to create an environment where empathy can flourish?
• Now the culture is one of fear, selfishness, greed and self centeredness. How to make the transition to empathy, and empathy based values? What are some example of people dealing with those values and making the change to empathy based values?

• What develops or deepens empathy?
  • traveling
  • reading books
  • watching movie stories
  • looking at art
  • having pets
  • previous similar experiences can deepen empathy

   

• Barack Obama values empathy
  the election was about it.
  • Obama Video
  • Michelle Video
• Supreme Court Pick - must have empathy
• Conservatives Attack empathy
• You can't teach empathy.
  •  who said that?
  •  can you teach empathy?
• Teaching empathy
  • learning Empathy from reading books, from watching movies.
    • "One of the most fascinating aspects of fiction film is that it enables us not just to how empathy can happen in a drama, but to experience how it can work strongly in ourselves. Four months, three weeks, and two days shows us the workings of empathy both in its plot and in our experience as we watch the film."
  • how to create an environment where empathy can flourish?
  • Now the culture is one of fear, selfishness, greed and self centeredness. How to make the transition to empathy, and empathy based values? What are some example of people dealing with those values and making the change to empathy based values?