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The Culture of Empathy website is a growing portal for resources and information about the values of empathy and compassion. It contains the largest collection of; articles, conferences, definitions, experts, history, interviews, videos, science and much more about empathy and compassion. To stay up to date on the latest, sign up for our Facebook: Page, Group and Cause now. Our mission is to contribute to growing a transformative movement to build a global worldwide culture of empathy and compassion. We do this through a variety of means. First is by community organizing. We bring people together and hold in-person and online meetings. Next is by collecting and organizing all the material we find on the internet on the topics. Researching through the arts and sciences. We are putting together a series of documentaries to educate the public and much, much more. Our current project is the conference on, How can we Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion? Contact us if you'd like to be involved in organizingthis event. Let's help fill the empathy deficit by making people more aware of the fundamental importance of empathy and compassion in our lives. This is a collaborative project and we invite you to take part. Send an email if you'd like to get involved with the group or with creating this video, etc. Edwin Rutsch (Facebook - email)
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James Doty: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion |
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Jim is Stanford Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery and founding director of the Center for the Study of Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). 'CCARE is striving to create a community of scholars and researchers, including neuroscientists, psychologists, educators and philosophical and contemplative thinkers around the study of compassion.'
He says we have to go beyond
mindfulness to
a
transcendent
connection between people. We can get beyond loneliness, isolation
and depression
to have a more sustained
happiness,
by contributing to
the wellbeing of others.
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Lisbeth Holter Brudal: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy in Norway |
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Lisbeth Holter Brudal is a psychologist living in Oslo, Norway.
She developed a 40 hour “Empathic Communication” course for
professionals who want to educate others. This method is now used in
hospitals, in schools, family centers and different institutions in Norway. By
educating professionals in a professional way of communicating based on
empathy, we have the experience that our courses influence the daily work
in a positive way for doctors, nurses, teachers and others in their
contact with patients and pupils and also in the way they cooperate in the
hospital or in the school. |
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Tal-Chen Rabinowitch: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Music Arts |
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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. She says, empathy is like closing the distance between people and merging, while the opposite is distance and a wall. Sub Conferences: Science and Arts |
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Leah Green: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion |
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Leah Green is Founder and Executive Director of the Compassionate Listening Project. She has led 26 training delegations to Israel/Palestine, speaks and writes about Middle East peace-building, and has produced three documentaries about the conflict. Contributor to the book: Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening. |
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Leah shared many personal stories about the power of
empathy and compassion. How to build a culture of empathy? ' Training, I just believe that we need to integrate programs starting in school - meaning preschool, kindergarten, whatever age...and consistently include these programs at every level. For parents, I also think it would be incredibly helpful if every family had to have “training” before they have children.' Sub Conference: Education |
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Andrea Cohen: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion |
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Andrea Cohen is a communications consultant, project
developer, and facilitator who has been involved with the
Compassionate Listening
Project for many years. Author: Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening. |
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For Andrea, empathy is like the exquisite attunement of
musical strings to each other. The opposite is chaos, discord, and the
sound of finger nails on the chalk board. She offers ways and skills to
create and deepen the attunement. How to build a culture of empathy? Listen with the heart and teach people specific conflict resolution skills they can use in the heat of conflict when they might tend to lose their ability to stay centered in the heart. Sub Conference: Education |
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Howard Zehr: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Restorative Justice |
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Widely known as “the grandfather of restorative justice,”
Zehr began as a practitioner and theorist in restorative justice in the
late 1970s at the foundational stage of the field. Author of many books
including
The Little Book of Restorative Justice. |
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Lesley Grant: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Mindfulness with Couples, Parents & Children |
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Lesley Grant, founder and director of Marin Mindfulness a unique community cooperative program that teaches mindfulness and loving-kindness practice to parents, teachers and children, preschool-preteens, speaks about how she is adapting mindfulness and applied mindfulness practices for children, parents and co-parenting couples, toward developing a culture of empathy.
She says: “Parents who practice mindfulness can develop the
capacities to raise children who seek creative non-violent solutions to
problems.” Mindful family relationships and both parents and children’s
peer relationships are a foundation of a culture of empathy. |
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Lidewij Niezink: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy |
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Lidewij hosts the Empathy and Charter for
Compassion groups on Linkedin. Her Ph.D was in empathy and altruism. She
is a strategic advisor, trainer and innovator, and helps organizations,
groups and individuals to implement different aspects of empathic concern
into their professional as well as private lives.
How to build a culture of empathy? Stop looking for the qualities of empathy and compassion outside of ourselves. We ALL possess these qualities already (as research is showing us). Develop and make use of the methods offered to cultivate empathy and compassion within ourselves according to what speaks to our individual minds and hearts... Sub Conference: Science |
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Rick Ackerly: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Education |
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Rick is a nationally recognized educator
and speaker with 45 years of experience working in and for schools. With a
master’s in education from Harvard University, Rick has devoted his career
to building thriving learning communities. Author,
" The Genius in Children: Bringing out the best in your child" |
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Sylvia Haskvitz: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC |
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Sylvia is a trainer, coach, mentor in Compassionate Communication, Nutrition Consultant and Registered Dietitian with a Holistic twist. She offers support in helping people to take full responsibility for their health and well-being. Author of, Eat by Choice, Not by Habit.
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Owen
Marcus moderates this panel discussion about how men can deepen
their empathy and live more fulfilling lives. Owen, David and
Michael facilitate men's groups. Owen
says, "What empathy gives you. You may find yourself enjoying life more. The more you connect to
others, the deeper the interaction. It is as if you step beyond a screen
to actually contact the person. You go from being an observer or critic,
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Matthew Winslow: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy |
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Matthew Winslow is
Associate Professor in the
Psychology Department at
Eastern Kentucky University.
He teaches a class on empathy in
the filed of
psychology. |
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Catherine Cadden: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC |
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Catherine Cadden has been an educator since 1987 finding
alternatives to teaching, learning, and conflict resolution that work with
the principles of nonviolence. Author of.
Peaceable
Revolution Through Education. |
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Frederick Arment is President and Executive Director is International Cities of Peace, an organization dedicated to connecting, promoting, and encouraging the global Cities of Peace movement. Author, The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works.
Empathy is like opening a door and peace is like sailing in harmony with the wind. We have to learn to open the door. Here are some ways. |
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Mary Mackenzie is a CNVC Certified Trainer and executive director of Peace Workshop International. She is the author of "Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion".
Empathy is like shifting smoothly into gear while the opposite is grinding the clutch and gears. To develop a culture of empathy, first, develop a consistent self empathy practice that you are committed to. Sub Conference: NVC |
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Molly Rowan: How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Restorative Justice |
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Founder and Director of Mali Rowan Presents, Mali Rowan Leach is host, producer, catalyst, social media specialist. Her key focus is social media & transformation, social healing and restorative justice.
She says empathy is like bridge or a pair of shoes that alchemize one's awareness, extending it beyond our immediate selves into the experiences, feelings, and awareness's of others in the past, present and future. The opposite is like living in a dark cave. We need to move the justice system out of the cave into the light of restorative empathy and justice. Sub Conference: Justice |
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| Vinciane Rycroft: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Education | ||
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Director and Co-Founder at Mind with Heart,
an educators' network for a secular education in empathy and compassion.
The main focus is on creating the conditions for young people to come to a
firm commitment to empathy and compassion based on their own reasoning,
experience and initiative.
Hosting the
Conference:
Empathy and Compassion in Society. The Conference will address
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Irmtraud Kauschat: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC |
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Irmtraud Kauschat is a medical doctor in Germany who works with alternative medicine, Compassionate Communication (NVC) and restorative conflict processes. She uses empathy in her medical practice and has done conflict mediation in Kenya.
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Lynn Johnson: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Arts Education |
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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. Sub Conference: Education and Arts |
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Daniel Bassill: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Mentoring |
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Daniel Bassill is founder of Tutor/Mentor Connection and CEO of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Sympathy = random acts of kindness. The philanthropic systems of support
for charity are built more on sympathy than empathy, thus they are not
consistent streams of support that are required to solve
How to build a culture of empathy? a) information collection. b) advertising/public awareness to increase number looking at info. c) facilitation/building understanding = like what happens in faith groups every week. d) action – people using ideas in many places, where they provide time, talent, dollars, leadership, advocacy, etc. to help kids to careers. Sub Conference: Education |
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| Gabor Maté: Child Development, Addiction, Stress and How to Build a Culture of Empathy | ||
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Gabor Maté M.D. is a physician and bestselling author whose books have
been published in nearly twenty languages worldwide. He studies,
child development, bullying, addiction, attention deficit disorder, stress
and more. His recent book is,
In the Realm of Hungry
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Lynne Cameron is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Open University.
Her research is in what stops us from
connecting, and how to help empathy happen. Author:
Metaphor and Reconciliation: The Discourse Dynamics of Empathy in
Post-Conflict Conversations. Empathy is moving into
the experience of another. The opposite of empathy is being at a distance
and there being blocks in the way. The best way to create empathy may be
to remove the blocks and let our natural drive
toward empathy happen. |
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Eva Vigran: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Dance |
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Empathy is like
water, it flows and takes any shape. The opposite of empathy is like cold
hard ice. In the dance we begin
with self-empathy, by feeling into ourselves,
melting the stress points, finding out what is going on
in our bodies. We get away from the words and can feel
our breath and gravity. We can then start to feel and
empathize with others. Our drop of water merges with others and we become
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| Jeremy Nickel: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Unitarian Universalism | ||
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Minister Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Fremont, California. Organizer in the Interfaith community at Occupy Oakland.
How can we build a culture of empathy? |
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Geoffrey Mitelman: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Judaism |
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Geoffrey Mitelman
is Associate Rabbi of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester.
Compassion is a deep-seated value in every religious tradition. Judaism
teaches that the world stands on Torah, on prayer and on acts of loving
kindness. |
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| Peder Zane: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Journalism | ||
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Peder Zane is journalist who has worked at The News & Observer of Raleigh and The New York Times. He teaches Mass Communication and Journalism at St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh. If we want to move our politics and culture in a positive direction, we should stop calling for civility and start practicing the lost art of empathy....Practicing empathy does not mean that we will adopt their point of view...empathy enables us to recognize their humanity... | |
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Joseph Burgo & Edwin Rutsch: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Psychotherapy |
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Joseph Burgo has practiced psychotherapy for more than 30
years, holding licenses as a marriage and family therapist and clinical
psychologist. |
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| Sarah Peyton: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC | ||
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Sarah Peyton is owner of Interpersonal Neurobiology and
Needs-Based Communication. She offers classes, workshops, teleseminars and
one-on-one sessions bringing together empathy and resonance with an
understanding of the brain for sustainable change that feels good.
How to build empathy? 1. Lots of education on our own Interpersonal Neurobiology - how our systems work in relationship, what resonance is, how it calms us, how to recognize it. 2. An exploration of the way emotions affect us physically, in particular rage and shame... Sub Conference: NVC |
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| Jori Manske: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC | ||
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Jim and Jori Manske
offer training, mediation, facilitation, organizational transformation,
coaching, mentoring and classes in integrating
Compassionate-Nonviolent Communications (NVC).
Jori
says Empathy
is
like; 2 hearts beating together,
a salve for the heart, or walking with another in sync.
Punishment and domination are the antithesis. How to build empathy? Clarity of awareness and intention - what is empathy and why it matters. Cultural change can happen in a society within one generation if children have a model of empathy, and education is a collaborative exploration... Sub Conference: NVC |
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| Jim Manske: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC | ||
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Jim Manske
is a Compassionate Communications (NVC) trainer at
RadicalCompassion.org.
He says, empathy is like being a tracker that is following the
trail or a delicious banquet, the opposite is a mechanic that is trying to
fix everything.
How can we build a culture of empathy? Supporting people in creating a life-serving system within themselves, in their primary relationship, family, workplace, neighborhood, and community. Creating systems that reframe conflict as a necessary part of growth and learning while creating a framework for resolving conflict in a life-serving way. Sub Conference: NVC |
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Empathy Study: Why Republicans and Democrats can't empathize with each other?
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Ed O’Brien -
Graduate Student in Social Psychology,
University of Michigan |
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| Fred Sly & Vika Miller: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy in Prisons | ||
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Fred Sly, Program Director &
Vika Miller, Executive Director, The Oregon Prison Project.
Working
with Compassionate Communications/NVC to transform prisons
and make them cultures of empathy. Fred says
empathy is like a puppy dog pile
where
no-one is embarrassed to play and
all are included versus coldness and mechanical robots.
Vika says it's like a compassionate room where we can be
everything that we are. There is room, space and acceptance
for all that we are as human beings.
The opposite of empathy would be
a closed fist of disconnection,
resistance, closed heartedness. Sub Conference: Justice |
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| Dian Killian: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC | ||
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Dian Killian
is
Executive Director
of
the
Center for Collaborative Communication.
Through sharing the consciousness and skills of Collaborative
Communication, we support people in hearing each other and being heard.
Empathy is like an open hand or warm bath versus a clenched fist.
How to build a culture of empathy? See as many people as possible trained to listen empathically. See that parents and those working with children can especially listen this way. See that we all have opportunities for expressing/being heard around "strong emotions". Sub Conference: NVC |
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| Victoria Hodson: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy in Education | ||
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Victoria Kindle Hodson, MA holds degrees in education and psychology and
has been a classroom teacher in public, private, and Montessori
schools—preschool through college.
Victoria is an educator, author, consultant, curriculum
developer
and co-designer of The
No Fault Zone Game. Co-Author: The Compassionate Classroom: Relationship Based Teaching and Learning Sub Conference: Education Sub Conference: NVC |
| Eric Bowers: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC | ||
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Eric Bowers is a CNVC certified Nonviolent Communication
Trainer through the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Eric is also
life-long learner of Restorative Systems and is training in Restorative
Circles. He has worked as a Children Who Witness Abuse Counselor
and Victim Services Worker. Sub Conference: NVC |
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| Ray Talyor: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC | ||
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Compassionate Communication/ Nonviolent
Communication (NVC) trainer.
How to build a culture of
empathy? Use the phone and Skype to ask for good empathy when upset
about a relationship (in order to support that relationship, not for
bitching/gossip). Use social networking to set up empathy connections as
well as share funny pictures of cats. Don't forget to
talk and listen to the neighbors. Sub Conference: NVC |
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| Steve Taylor & Edwin Rutsch: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Spirituality | ||
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Steve Taylor is a lecturer in psychology at Leeds
Metropolitan University, and the author of several best-selling books on
psychology and spirituality. Author: The Fall "Just as the lack of empathy makes cruelty and oppression possible, the presence of empathy heals conflict. The ability to empathize makes us truly human, and the wider it stretches - from victims to offenders, from one ethnic group to another, from nation to nation and religion to religion - the less brutal and more harmonious a place the world will become." |
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Professor in the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Purdue
University. Author: Rethinking Multicultural Education for the Next Generation: The New Empathy and Social Justice Sub Conference: Education Sub Conference: Science |
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By drawing on breakthrough research in two fields—neuroscience and animal studies—Nadine Dolby argues that empathy is an underlying element of all living beings. Dolby shows how this commonality can provide a scaffolding for building an exciting new approach to developing multicultural and global consciousness, one that has the potential to transform how our students see and relate to the world around them. |
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Panel 002-A: How does The No-Fault Zone Game teach and support
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Tom Gostinger |
The
No-Fault Zone Game helps create a culture of empathy in schools by
providing hands-on materials that students and teachers use
throughout the school day to: understand themselves, empathize
with others, solve problems, resolve conflicts collaboratively.
The Game is also used to enrich academics, helping students
understand characters in literature and history, and strengthen
their own story-telling and writing. |
| Stanly Sears & Edwin Rutsch: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Interfaith | ||
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Unitarian Universalist
Minister, Auburn, NY How can we build a culture of empathy? Religious communities need to be more explicit in speaking about it as a religious value. Instead of spending so much time speaking about personal salvation or imposing what I see as restrictive religious rules (e.g., birth control, homosexuality as sins). This language demeans others and promotes self-righteousness rather than empathy. As Unitarian Universalists, empathy has been at the core of our faith. One might call it our version of “applied theology.” Sub Conference: Interfaith |
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| Marilyn Schlitz: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy | ||
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President/CEO - Institute of Noetic Sciences The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a nonprofit research, education, and membership organization. The Worldview Literacy Project advances the development of empathy by fostering appreciation for diverse worldviews and enhancing skills for global citizenship. Empathy requires two things: the capacity to recognize another’s state of being and the ability to see another’s point of view (perspective taking). Sub Conference: Education |
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| Alan Seid: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with NVC | ||
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Empathy does not mean agreement. Empathy has a quality of following - it's not leading. Keep learning about empathy. What are the obstacles to deepening empathy? Speed. Being in our heads. Sub Conference: NVC |
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| David A. Levine: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy in Education | ||
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Author
Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community,
"Empathy education is one of the most critical educational issues of our
time because it is only when students feel emotionally safe and secure
in all areas of the school environment—in the classroom, hallway, or
cafeteria; at recess; and on the bus—that they will begin to focus and
tap into the unlimited potential that lies within each of them. "
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| Ira Liss: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Games | ||
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Ira Liss co-founded and currently runs
AOK,
a “social game for social good” played online, on iOS and Android mobile devices and out in
the real world. AOK converts player engagement into charitable donations,
and offers virtual and real rewards to players that post, share, "like"
and comment on Acts and Observations of Kindness. Sub Conference: Education |
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| Xueqin Jiang: How to Build a Culture of Empathy in Chinese Education System | ||
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Xueqin Jiang
has been designing and implementing a specialized curriculum
for Chinese students planning to study in American colleges and
universities.
He is deputy principle of the
Peking High International Division, which
aims to educate China's next
generation of educators, writers, and thinkers by teaching them empathy
and creativity. Sub Conference: Education |
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| Kris Miner: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Restorative Practices | ||
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I blog on my perspectives as a Restorative Justice
practitioner and executive director of
St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice Program.
SCVRJP provides several programs and services to our
local community. Additionally, SCVRJP provides contracted trainings and
presentations, to help schools, agencies or communities that want to
implement Restorative Justice.
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| Owen Marcus: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Men | ||
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For the last 15 years I have focused on men issues and
men’s groups. Six years ago I started Sandpoint Men Groups where I have
taught other men to lead deep groups. For the last couple of years I have
blogged about men issues. Author, Empathy – Men’s
New Secret Weapon. Sub Conference: Education |
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| Bridget Cooper 2: Building a Culture of 'Profound' Empathy in Education | ||
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Bridget Cooper is
Professor of Education at the University of Sunderland in the
UK. Bridget
has taught for 31 years in schools, adult education and Higher
Education in various capacities across the age and attainment range.
Author: Empathy in Education: Engagement, values and achievement Sub Conference: Education Sub Conference: Science |
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Emile Bruneau: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy? |
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The scientific study of conflict resolution
approaches and empathy. |
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Panelist: Marco Iacoboni Panelist: Karen Gerdes Panelist:
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Associate Professor,
School Of Social Work,
Arizona State University.
We propose that a targeted and structured
explication of empathy is a useful, if not essential, foundation
for social work theory and practice. We outline a social work
framework for empathy, one that is rooted in an interdisciplinary
context, emphasizes recent findings in the field of social
cognitive neuroscience, and yet is embedded in a social work
context..., students can learn to use their knowledge, values, and
skills, informed by empathy, to take empathic action consciously. |
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Maia Szalavitz: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy |
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Coauthor: Born for Love: Why Empathy Is
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Marco Iacoboni: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy |
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Author:
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Empathy and How We Connect with Others |
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Roman Krznaric: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy |
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Author:
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Author: The Emotional Lives of Animals: A
Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy
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We've launched a new project to set up an Empathy
Tent at some of the occupy encampments in order to support
building a culture of empathy and compassion through conflict
resolution, empathy circles, empathic listening, mediation, dialog,
restorative justice, trainings, etc. See the following links for
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| Live Chat with Christian Keysers, author: The Empathic Brain | ||
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We talk with Christian Keysers, author of The Empathic Brain: How the Discovery of Mirror Neurons Changes our Understanding of Human Nature.
He is one of the
few scientists that have directly studied mirror neurons. His work
on the neural basis of empathy has led to publications in the most
prominent scientific journals. |
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Live chat with Simon Baron-Cohen: Empathy and the Science of Evil |
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We talk with
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology
and Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge
University. |
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Kristin Neff, author of
Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity
Behind, talks with Edwin about the nature of empathy, self-empathy
self-compassion and compassion. "Compassion is a huge value of mine. Now I like to use the term open-heartedness, because compassion tends to be specific to the context of suffering. Of course we want to have open hearts in the face of suffering, but also want to have open hearts in the face of joy and when we are at our bests and have great successes and achievements. Just keep our hearts open no matter what happens, positive, negative or even neutral. Open mind and open heart, just trying to stay open." Sub Conference: Science |
| Paul Ekman talks about the Nature of Empathy and Compassion with Edwin Rutsch | ||
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How can we build a culture of
empathy? 'The survival of the planet as we know it depends on global compassion... If I was president, thank god I'm
not, I would start a Manhattan Project on global empathy. It has the
urgency of the Manhattan Project. It needs the bringing together of
the best minds in the world to focus on this issue, because there is
an urgency too it. I think Al Gore was right, that time is running
out. We can't wait 20 or 40 years to figure out what to do with this
problem." |
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How can we build a culture of
empathy? I think it is important in society, especially at the moment. Now that we have come out of this period where greed was so good. I think it is important to emphasize that there are alternative ways of looking at society. A society where solidarity is important and caring about others is important. The other
things, that I'm not an expert on, is education and culture of course. A
cultural and educational change that emphasizes empathy more. I would
also warn that empathy is not invariably positive. People
think that empathy is automatically a positive characteristic. Empathy can be
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| Stanford University Conference: Happiness Within Reach from Empathy & Compassion | ||
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A one day long conference on
happiness at Stanford University. The importance of empathy,
self-compassion, compassion and connecting with others to being
happy was a constant theme.. "And it turns out that this fear of having compassion for yourself is strongly correlated with fear of having compassion for others, and a lack of willingness to extend compassion to others. Self compassion is not letting ourselves off the hook and being self indulgent, it's about choosing to use our own happiness and our own desire for meaning and connection with others as our primary motivation, as opposed to using guilt shame and fear as our primary motivation." |
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Happy the Movie - Director Roko Belic
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The core of human nature, I think, is
based on empathy and compassion. It's extremely rare to find someone
that does not empathize in some way or form naturally. The
Dalai
Lama said it best, it's not a religious
thing, it's not a political idea, this is the way we are born, this
is in our blood.
Empathy, compassion, living by the
golden rule, all of those things are so critical to, not only to
your own personal happiness, but to the sustainability of our
societies and of the human race. So empathy is, I think, one of the
core ingredients, not only for a happy life, but of a happy world. |
| Karla McLaren interview on Empaths | ||
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"I'm an empath, which means that I am
able to read and understand emotions, You're an empath too - we all
are..." How do we create a culture of empathy? - learning about what emotions are. - watch out for demonization and idealization. Sub Conference: Empaths |
| Interview with Rick Hanson on Empathy | ||
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I have a special interest, a particular
interest in practical methods,
useful things, found at the intersection of psychology, brain science
and contemplative practice... I think looking out at the world today, we have
a crises of empathy in a way. Sub Conference: Science |
| Mary Gordon founder of 'Roots of Empathy' talks about the Importance of Empathy | ||
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Your quest for an
empathic culture, or a Culture of Empathy as you call it, I think
is a great quest. I don't think it's ever to late to develop
empathy. It starts so naturally... I think we should do everything
that we can to cultivate empathy and we can do it at every level.
So why would we not. Sub Conference: Education |
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An Interview with Huston Smith, religious studies scholar and author of many books on world religions including The World's Religions.
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