Culture of Empathy
Builder: Johanna M. Selles
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Johanna M. Selles
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Johanna Selles is Associate Professor of Christian Education and the
Director of the Master of Religious Education program.
Empathic
Communities: Educating for Justice
as well as the forthcoming Educating for Empathy: A Workbook.
Associate Professor of Christian Education
Director of the Master of Religious Education Program
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- send email interview request.
- on leave
Office: Room 211
Tel.: (416) 585-4549
Fax: (416) 585-4516
Email: johanna.selles@utoronto.ca
Transcripts
Empathic Communities: Educating for Justice
By Johanna M. Selles
Empathy is generally considered a useful skill for professional students
in the helping professions, such as medicine, nursing, teaching, and
clergy. This book examines the pedagogical and curricular implications
of educating for empathy. Empathy is described as consisting of both
cognitive and affective elements. Students may demonstrate empathic
abilities on a continuum from an empathic deficit to empathic overload.
Mentoring, reflection, journaling, and an understanding of spiritual
formation can be helpful to professional students in learning how to
engage empathy. For both the professional and the client, empathy can
enhance the encounter and the professional relationship. Building on the
inherent potential for relationality, professionals engaging empathy
bring respectful humility into their encounters that can facilitate
intercultural understanding in a diversifying and complex world.
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Competition
Here are some questions we can explore during the interview.
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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
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What is your metaphor of what empathy is like? Explain?
( ) What is a physical metaphor. (make a body movement)
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What does that feel like in your body?
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What is your metaphor of what the
opposite of empathy is like? Explain?
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What does that feel like in your body?
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What would a culture of empathy look like?
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What's the metaphor for a
culture of empathy?
Empathy Story
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"When did you first discover the power of empathy?"
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Create a dialog between the two.
( ) How can we build a culture of empathy?
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What are the obstacles to deepening empathy?
( ) How to overcome the obstacle?
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Are there questions that you would like me to ask you
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