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Culture of Empathy Builder:  Peter Bazalgette

The Empathy Instinct:
How to Create a More Civil Society

 Peter Bazalgette 

Peter Lytton Bazalgette is a British television executive and creative figure. He is a television producer who helped to create the independent TV production sector in the United Kingdom, and went on to be the leading creative figure in the global TV. He was Chair of Arts Council England from 2012 until 2016. He is the author of: The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society.

 

Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings.
It is a fundamental human attribute, without

which mutually cooperative societies

cannot function.


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The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society

Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually cooperative societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the MRI scanner, we are mapping the human brain. This is a new frontier that reveals a host of beneficial ideas for childcare, teens challenged by the Internet, the justice system, decent health care, tackling racism and resolving conflicts.

In this wide-ranging and accessible book full of entertaining stories that are underlined by the latest scientific research, Peter Bazalgette also mounts a passionate defense of arts and popular culture as a means of bridging the empathy gap. As the world's population expands, consuming the planet's finite resources, as people haunted by poverty and war are on the move and as digital communications infinitely complicate our social interactions, we find our patience and our sympathy constantly challenged. Here is the antidote.

Culminating in a passionate manifesto on empathy, The Empathy Instinct is what makes us human and what can make us better humans.

 

Contents

  • Introductions

  • Chapter 1: Societies Without Empathy

  • Chapter 2: The Science of Empathy

  • Chapter 3: The Nature and Nurture of Empathy

  • Chapter 4: The Digital Dystopia

  • Chapter 5:  Crime and Punishment

  • Chapter 6:  In Sickness and in Health

  • Chapter 7:  Race, Religion and Conflict Resolution

  • Chapter 8:  The Art of Empathy

  • Chapter 9:  A Charter for Empathy

 

 

 

Sir Peter Bazalgette: " The Empathy Instinct" | Talks at Google (48 min)

 

 

  • How did you get interested in Empathy?

    • 1. He was wanting to create a good case for funding arts and culture?

      • what are the benefits of arts? creating empathetic citizens

    • 2.  The Holocaust Memorial - an unempathic act

  • Brexit

  • Digital world

    •  text is not so empathic

    • only talk to people that you don't agree with

  • *Defining empathy: ability to see something form the other  persons perspective - be in the other persons shoes.

    • cognitive empathy - understand what makes someone else tick. can understand someone and play them like a fiddle. but has no sympathy

    • emotional empathy - ability to experience the other.

  • *Empathy is the answer and cause of racism. makes you loyal to your tribe.  

    • Empathy can bridge the divides as well.

  • Arts help you see the point of view of others

  • 12:20 - About technology

    • power of empathy is face to face

  • What can we do about the Empathy deficit?

    • in Early years

    • in Healthcare

    • in Justice System

  • 23:00 Q and A

    1. Choosing switching empathy on and off? plus animals/meat eating

    2. I hang out with people with the same views. How to change that?

    3. How to apply empathy to people who are different from us?

    4. Shutting down empathy due to fear and what to do about it?

    5. If we feel guilty if our empathy snitch is turned off?

    6.  What about VR stories?

 

Sir Peter Bazalgette: ” The Empathy Instinct” | Talks at Google
May 1, 2017
by Sheeraz Raza
"Sir Peter Bazalgette in conversation with VP Comms, Peter Barron. Sir Peter was instrumental in creating the independent TV production sector in the United Kingdom. He was Chief Creative Officer at Endemol, President of the Royal Television Society, Deputy Chairman of the National Film School, Chair of Arts Council England, and is now Chair of the UK broadcaster ITV. He’s spent his career arguing for the role and importance of the arts and creative expression.
He joined us at Google to talk about his new book,The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society, which seeks to address the essential question of how we create a more civil society when so many of us are divided."
 


Peter Bazalgette on Empathy  (14 min)
Television executive Peter Bazalgette examines empathy. He talks to primatologist Frans de Waal, whose pioneering work with chimpanzees has helped to illuminate how our own evolutionary history suggests a deep-rooted propensity, both emotional and cognitive, for feeling the emotions of others.

 

 

The Empathy Instinct by Peter Bazalgette (2 min)
 

Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually co-operative societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the MRI scanner we are mapping the human brain. This is a new frontier that reveals a host of beneficial ideas for childcare, teens challenged by the internet, the justice system, decent healthcare, tackling racism and resolving conflicts. 

In this wide-ranging and accessible book full of entertaining stories that are underlined by the latest scientific research, Peter Bazalgette also mounts a passionate defence of arts and popular culture as a means of bridging the empathy gap. 

As the world's population expands, consuming the planet's finite resources, as people haunted by poverty and war are on the move and as digital communications infinitely complicate our social interactions, we find our patience and our sympathy constantly challenged. Here is the antidote.

Culminating in a passionate manifesto on empathy, The Empathy Instinct is what makes us human and what can make us better humans.


 

Arts, Culture and Empathy  (33 min)

  • What sparked interest in empathy?

    • 1. Helping government create holocaust memorial. - stories of the effects of no empathy

    • 2. benefits of empathy - arts and culture.

      • social 

      • educational

  • creating Empathetic citizens

    • telling human stories. - put yourself in others shoes.

    • a scientific story

    • why we invest public money in empathic arts and culture.

  • How arts and culture promote empathy?

    • story telling - you feel along

    • mirror neurons

    • 9:30 - empathy is the glue for families, countries to function.

    • empathy i not enough. - needs sympathetic action

    • Artists talked about Empathy,  Shakespeare, Elliot, Aristotle. etc.

    • 13:30 - about feeling fear

    • the arts (museums, music, painting, literature, theater, dance) help experience empathy

    • [keeps a difference/distance}

    • Empathy Gymnasium

     

Sir Peter Bazalgette - Empathetic Citizens | The Lumiere Durham 2015 conference (15 min)

Former Chair of Arts Council England, Sir Peter Bazalgette believes that empathy is the social glue that makes society function, and culture is the foundation of empathy.

  • Why should we fund arts and culture? what are the benefits

  • Empathetic Citizens - empathy is glue that holds society together.

 

As a society, are we losing our empathy?
Jan 30, 2017
Empathy can help curb recidivism and speeds up the healing of patients in hospitals, and Peter Bazalgette reckons it can solve a lot of our currents societal problems

"Catherine ConroyIn his new book, The Empathy Instinct, author and former Endemol TV producer Peter Bazalgette explores the scientific understanding of empathy through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Bazalgette was first compelled to take a closer look at empathy when he was the chairman of Arts Council England and was faced with a 30 per cent cut in government funding. In order to articulate the best case for public investment in arts, he came up the idea of empathetic citizens. “We knew that the arts tell human stories, and enable us to put ourselves in other people’s shoes and to see things from other people’s points of view, and in that sense they are pro-social.”