Culture of Empathy Builder:  Conor Shapiro

TEDxMiddlebury - Conor Shapiro - The Risk of Empathy 

• 00:00 hard to talk about empathy without defining it as a way of practicing

  • in the shoes of others

  • difficult

  • how do I put it into practice

  • it's difficult, we have to work at it

  • in the field I work, global health

• 2:00 what is development?

  • development is about listening to local voices - Haiti

  • people question of rights

  • depending on where your born depends on your rights

  • how can we help others to achive those rights

• 4:30 He went to Haiti to teach English

  • lot's of  HIV/aids

  • perhaps because of lack of empathy people were dying

  • how could we find funding

• 7:15 -  he tells story of going to Haiti, earthquake

  • (not a much about empathy)

• 13:30 - the needs are enormous

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