Jean Morrison on Empathy from Edwin Rutsch on Vimeo.

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• Story of Empathy

  • first grade teach

  • was first really living examples that touched me

  • honor an amazing teach - Misses Wright

  • Kids were giggling about boy with runny noise

  • had a cold and drip of snot dropping

  • caught between compassion and the hilarity of it

  • not knowing what to do

  • Misses Wright quietly lays a handkerchief on his desk

  • A magical moment, doing something so gentile

  • a gentile nature

  • the heart of it not words

• A deep memory of empathy?

  • yes, I would have liked that to have been in my family

  • Misses Wright - that was the way to be

  • parents were wonderful but there were times that were not quite right

• A beacon of empathy?

  • yes

• As you went along you found the vocabulary for empathy?

  • in connection with your own heart

  • wanting love,

  • parents were verbal fighters - When little I was the scissor queen

  • cut out the paper dolls that were connected

  •  and tried to bring them together

  • connect them back

  • there is another way

  • getting excited I was going to connected them

  • a began  looking for how people relate to each other

  • judgments and criticism with yourself is just as critical

  • empathy a life long inspiration and companion

• Other discoveries for a vocabulary?

  • In college Carl Rodgers

  • then NVC with Marshall Rosenberg

• Any other insights on empathy?

  • empathy is a quiet place

  • harder to find empathy in noisy place

  • go slower

• A Metaphor?

  • different ones at different times

  • something with water

  • a golden ring - solid and light

  • encircles my heart and your heart

  • precious - connecting

• Opposite of empathy?

  • empathy and alone

  • a ice cub in the desert that takes a life time to melt

• Dialogue between them?

  • the ring rolling in time and space into the desert

  • fall around the ice and welcome it like it is

  • the ice cub would melt knowing there is a witness

  • become with the sand and be