Culture of Empathy Builder:  Jane Elliott

Pending - in development

Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer,
 recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education,

In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. over thirty years ago, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise. This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority

exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.

Website JaneElliott.com

Anything you'd like to add?

Your work is well documented online with, many videos, articles, interviews, etc.

Here we wanted to focus on and discuss the role of empathy in your work and society?
 

I want to build an empathic culture, make empathy a primary social value.
 

What have been the personal benefits of empathy to you?

What are your needs for empathy?

Seen your tears - how's your hope level?
 

What are the worlds needs for empathy?

How can we create more empathy?

It's the antidote to judgment?

Empathy and Prejudice/Judgment?

The means are the end? vr  Means justify the ends

TV is flooded and  based on this demeaning attitude, America would be a shining example of empathy. But is seems to be just getting more nasty and demeaning.

Many forms of Judgment?

• race

• sex

• money

• power

• education

• competition

• celebrity

• work position

Ted Cruz is too creepy!
Would you be willing to do an empathy Circle with??? a confirmed racist.
 

Nature of evil

the status quo

Jane Elliott: Can you empathize at all then with blacks, minority group members in this country?

Educator Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise leads students in feeling discrimination. 

Subjecting blue eyed participants to demeaning remarks
To Jane Elliott:This is empathy building not brainwashing.

According to supporters of Elliott’s approach, the goal is to reach people’s sense of empathy and morality. It seeks to address a sense of apathy that many people have because they do not think the problem affects them or that they do not believe that they act in a racist manne

Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise Creator Jane Elliott Visits Clarkson University
 

Brown eyes and blue eyes Racism experiment (Children Session) - Jane Elliott
 

Oprah discusses Racism ft Jane Elliot - pt 1
 

The Angry Eye - Brown Eye-Blue Eye Experiment - part 1
 

Here are some questions we can explore during the interview.
 

(   )  How can we build a culture of empathy?
i.e. raise the level of empathy in society?

Value?
What's your most important personal value?

How did you develop it?

Do you have a story of when you learned an insight into it?

Defining empathy

(   ) What is your metaphor of what empathy is like? Explain?
(   ) What is a physical metaphor. (make a body movement)

(   ) What does that feel like in your body?
 

(   ) What is your metaphor of what the opposite of empathy is like? Explain?

(   ) What does that feel like in your body?
 

(   ) What would a culture of empathy look like?

(   ) What's the metaphor for  a culture of empathy?

Empathy Story

(   ) "When did you first discover the power of empathy?"

(   ) Create a dialog between the two.

(   )  How can we build a culture of empathy?

(   ) What are the obstacles to deepening empathy?

(   ) How to overcome the obstacle?


(   )  Are there questions that you would like me to ask you