Benefits of Empathy > To Do

• (  ) Put together a team to develop this benefits of empathy page,

• (  ) Create a framework for how to describe the benefits of empathy

  • Feelings and Experiences

    • Positive Feelings

    • Negative Feelings

  • A foundation of morality

  • Meet and support your needs/values/desires/aspirations

  • benefits in specific contexts: home, education, groups, etc

  • add metaphors and stories for each benefit

  • add metaphors and stories for the opposite of each benefit

  • How:

  • Why:

  • Personal Anecdotes and Stories:

  • Metaphors:

  • Drawing:

  • Share your story, do you have a story about empathy feeling Damn good.

• (  ) Created a Facebook event for benefits of empathy

  • (  ) do a daily post of one benefit

• (  ) Video Series:  Show don't tell. Create a series of short video clips, 3 to 5 minutes each . One video on each of the benefits of empathy. The clips could be interviews, but would also like them to be produced and edited with graphics, imagines etc.

  • (  ) Show visuals of the emotions - art, drawing, quotes,

• (  ) People to interview about the benefits of empathy

  • David Levine

  • Eva Scherer

  • Bob Sornson

  • Raul de Velasco

  • Jonathan Friesem

  • Maren Souders 

  • NVC interviews

  • etc.

  • ...

• Types of Empathy

  • Giving empathy

  • Receiving empathy

  • Mutual Empathy

  • Self-Empathy

  • Mirrored Empathy

  • Imaginative Empathy

  • Empathic Creativity and Action

• Testimonials

  • How empathy has benefited peoples lives?

  • Testimonials of how empathy has effected people personally?

    • gather personal stories

• Clips to edit -

  • Mary Gordon interview, benefits piece at end,

• Sort Benefits of Empathy

  • releases energy

  •  Joy's shared are feelings doubled, sorrows shared are sorrows halved.

• The Ability to Know and acquire knowledge in a social environment. - opening your empathic door - receptive to the perspective of the other. - you learn better. people isolated in themselves don't' get far. need to see the perspective of others in science to acquire knowledge. to learn from them.  don't be insecure, take the perspective of the other and build on it. resonate with the others perspective.  watch and get their perspective. people feel it and they lower their guard, defenses, fear and they open themselves. (Raul)

  • opening your empathic door in science

  • opening your empathic door in medicine

  • need to reciprocate - don't do it selfishly  True empathy is not selfish

  • a way to grow

• (  ) Do a humorous selling of empathy skit. and there's more. for a limited time.