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Panel# 004-A: Fostering Empathy With the Arts Date: 2012-06-14
This panel of guest artists from the fields of dance, music, theater,
and design, shared their personal insights of how empathy plays a vital
part in their various art forms. The artists also outlined how they
would make empathy front and center in our culture through their art
form.
Lynn Johnson is CEO of Glitter & Razz Productions and
theater artist dedicated to building strong connections with creative &
compassionate people to bring about positive social change.
Using the expressive arts and theater to promote and teach
empathy to children and adults. We believe that play lights us up and
connects us. We believe that compassion is a skill that can be taught and
practiced.
Seung Chan Lim, better known as Slim, is the director for
project Realizing Empathy. Realizing Empathy is a project that asks what it
means to make something, how it works as a process, and why it matters to
our lives. It explores these questions across disciplines such as fine
arts, performing arts, design, science, and engineering.
My
passion in education started many years ago when I returned to
school, earning a 7-12th grade teaching credential in health and
science, and a graduate degree in special education. Being a life
long student, as many teachers are, to keep my in-state, and
out-of- state, credential updated, my path lead me to taking
courses in a major area of interest, the arts. My feeling is all
the arts whether, visual, dance, music, theater, film, poetry and
writing need to be an integral part of all education, as well as
values.
Tal-Chen is working in Cambridge towards a PhD. Her
research explores the social nature of musical group interaction in
children and the ways in which it can be directed towards the long-term
enhancement of emotional empathy. This work explores experimentally the
effects of musical group interaction on children’s every day capacity for
empathy, and in particular, the emotional impact of synchronization during
musical interaction. Her research suggests that music promotes empathy.
Eva Vigran is the funder of
Coreconnexion.net - Dancing
Life from Your Core!
It is an invitation to enter your own dance,
wisdom and resources, connecting with aliveness, freedom and
interconnection with all living beings. It is a movement and
transformational arts practice for personal and professional
development, which inspires and transforms people from all over the
world.
Convener: Edwin Rutsch is founding director of the Center for Building a
Culture of Empathy. See
his full Bio here.
Discussion Transcript and Outline:
00:00 Introduction
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