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Culture of Empathy Builder:  Grin Lord

Empathic Listening as Foundational

Empathy Building Practice

Grin Lord

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Grin Lord is a board certified, licensed clinical psychologist who provides psychotherapy for children, adolescents, parents and families. Grin is co-Founder of Empathy Rocks, and is an AI researcher. We discuss the foundational importance of empathic listening for nurturing a more empathic way of being and world.

 

"I learned that reflections were incredibly powerful conversational tools. Good Motivational Interviewing  therapists are supposed to provide a minimum ratio of two reflections to every question, but ideally four or more per question.

 

I loved reflections. I thought reflections were so great, that I designed years of therapy training and eventually an entire company around teaching people to provide them."

Grin Lord

 
 

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Empathic Listening as Foundational Empathy Building Practice
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3 Simple Skills to Give Great Advice with Empathy ft. Dr. Grin Lord Purposeful Empathy

 

 

 

 

 

Empathy Power Up! Special Guest: Grin Lord

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Grin Lord, a board certified, licensed psychologist who innovates AI mental health interventions. She's the CEO and Co-Founder of Empathy Rocks, on a mission to build human connection through empathic AI.

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Rogers Hated Empathic Listening Skills
by Grin Lord

The father of humanistic psychotherapy was appalled by the word “reflections”

As a training therapist, there was a magical reverence for Carl Rogers- the father of humanistic psychotherapy. He is credited for having defined what are now taken-for-granted ingredients in good therapy, like alliance and unconditional positive regard. His dedication to empathy and conflict resolution was so expansive that Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1987. He lost to Mother Teresa.

 

 

Unhelpful empathy
by Grin Lord
Well-trained therapists fail even while doing all the “right” things.
When the doors close in the therapy room only the patient and therapist are privy to what’s happening inside. There are a few exceptions where this black box is opened: when a therapist is training, doing court-mandated work, or conducting research. That’s where I come in — my specialty is listening to therapists perform therapy. I’ve had the unique privilege to listen to thousands of hours of therapy sessions over the past ten years to assess the quality of the therapeutic interaction.
 

 

Twenty Ways To Give Advice With Empathy
by Grin Lord
First, ask permission.