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Culture of Empathy Builder: Johanna M. Selles

 

Johanna M. Selles

 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



 


- send email interview request.
- on leave

 

Office: Room 211
Tel.: (416) 585-4549
Fax: (416) 585-4516
Email: johanna.selles@utoronto.ca

 

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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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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