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Culture of Empathy
Builder:
Susan Stillman
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Emotional Intelligence: Going On An Empathy Adventure
Susan Stillman and Edwin Rutsch
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Susan Stillman is Director of Education at
Six Seconds, The
Emotional Intelligence Network, Institute for Social Innovation. Through
the Six Seconds website, she is hosting the
Empathy Adventure
over a six weeks period.
Susan writes,
"Empathy is one of the vital competencies of the 21st century. Empathy
is related to collaboration, building trust, problem solving, health,
and peaceful resolution of conflict. It is an essential component of
leadership and critical to success in business and education. Empathy
and compassion may even be key to the survival of the human race.
Formation Skydiving (Wikipedia)
" Empathy and compassion may even
be key
to the survival of the human race."
Empathy can be viewed even more broadly as compassionate action. So
we’re inviting you to this Empathy Adventure — where we’ll come together
online to discuss the many types of empathy and then perform a few
simple acts of empathy that will ripple out to many others. Through
personal stories of group members and empathy “experts,” the group will
develop a deep awareness of empathy. We’ll observe what happens when we
invite empathy to be more present in our lives, and document the way it
affects us and our interaction with others. Over approximately six
weeks, the project will follow these three stages..."
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Links
Emotional
Intelligence: Going On An Empathy Adventure: Susan Stillman and Edwin
Rutsch
Transcripts
(Video
Transcriptions: If you would like to take empathic action
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other viewers to quickly see the content of this video.)
Are We Wired for Empathy?
JANUARY 16,
2012
"What do mirror neurons teach about us about our empathy?
This week, leading neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni visited with Six
Seconds’ Master Class in Pajaro Dunes, California, for an oceanside chat
on mirror neurons and their relationship to empathy and learning. A few
of us collected some of the takeaways:"
Empathy Adventure
"Empathy is one of the vital competencies of the 21st century. Empathy
is related to collaboration, building trust, problem solving, health,
and peaceful resolution of conflict. It is an essential component of
leadership and critical to success in business and education. Empathy
and compassion may even be key to the survival of the human race.
Empathy can be viewed even more broadly as compassionate action. So
we’re inviting you to this Empathy Adventure — where we’ll come together
online to discuss the many types of empathy and then perform a few
simple acts of empathy that will ripple out to many others. Through
personal stories of group members and empathy “experts,” the group will
develop a deep awareness of empathy. We’ll observe what happens when we
invite empathy to be more present in our lives, and document the way it
affects us and our interaction with others. Over approximately six
weeks, the project will follow these three stages –"
What is Empathy? Q&A with Dr. Susan Stillman
Connected and Disconnected: Technology, Empathy, and Loneliness
By Joshua Freedman
"Can Technology Increase Empathy?
At the same time, any of us who parent teens can see that their social
lives are dramatically different than “back in the day.” While some of
us might wish to go back in time, a Pandora’s Box of Apps has been
opened, and some educators are looking to this problem as an
opportunity."
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