Empathy 101: Live it.
Real social change begins at home, says Ashoka Fellow Eric Dawson, Founder of Peace First. So next time you ask, "how are you?" pause before rushing off without hearing the answer.



 

Empathy 101: Validate every voice.
Author, noted academic, and one-time high school English teacher, Tony Wagner shares the key to building empathy in every student.
 

 

Empathy 101: Build relationships.
How to Change the World author David Bornstein shares the key to moral imagination

 

Empathy 101: Transform the helped to helper.
The key to cultivating empathy? Enable others to pay it forward, says Ashoka Fellow and founder of Time Banks, Edgar Cahn.
 

 

 

Empathy 101: Practice before you teach.
Forget formulas and textbook responses: empathy is about listening, says Teaching Empathy author David Levine. And that begins with teachers' relationships to their students.

 

Empathy 101: Experience + Response = Outcome
Understanding others begins at home: Fresh Lifelines for Youth's Aila Malik shares a powerful tool for facilitating self-understanding.

 

Empathy 101: Got a pet?
Think cultivating empathy requires money and expert training? Think again. Jennifer Hoos Rothberg, Executive Director of the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, shares a simple strategy.

 

Empathy 101: Unlock what kids are born with.
Look at what kids come with, not what they lack, says Katherine Dinh, Head of Prospect Sierra. Rally kids around a common goal for social good, and create a culture in which empathy is valued, measured, and pervasive.

 

 

Empathy 101: Fill your teammates' emotional tanks.
Winning requires not just playing at your best, but helping your teammates play better too, says Ashoka Fellow and Positive Coaching Alliance founder Jim Thompson. The key? Empathy.
 

 

 

Empathy 101: Reflect within. Listen without.
Our social systems often encourage us to suppress our innate capacities for empathy. Ashoka Fellow David Castro, founder of I-LEAD, shares what we can do to restore those skills..

Empathy 101: Begin at home.
Practicing empathy shouldn't be confined to a classroom, says Ashoka Fellow and Founder of One World Now! Kristin Hayden. It's something we can practice daily, through everyday moments.  
 

 

Empathy 101: Flatten hierarchy.
Empathy is a lifestyle, not an event, says Ashoka Fellow and Founder of Threshold Collaborative Alisa Del Tufo.




 

Empathy 101: Don't react, absorb.
How many times have you sat through a conversation thinking about what you're going to say, rather than what's being said? NoVo Foundation's Robert Sherman has a simple answer for what mastering empathy means.

 

 

Empathy 101: Integrate the personal and profess...
Cultivating empathy is as much about modeling it yourself as it is developing it in others, says Mary Watson, Associate Dean at The New School. And that requires working environments that break down the walls between the personal and professional.

Empathy 101: Infuse empathy in all subject matter.
Empathy isn't a subject you set aside for 30 minutes a day: it's something that must be infused throughout the school day. Margot Locker, of Harvard's GoodWork Project, gives us a window into how.

Empathy 101: Listen to others' needs.
Empathy isn't about presuming what another person needs, says Prospect Sierra's Mark Basnage. It requires actively listening, and learning to separate your judgments from another's person's reality.
 




 

Empathy 101: Articulate others' feelings
Noted researcher--and parent--Chris Adkins explains the difference between "self-focused" empathy and "other-focused" empathy, and how to cultivate the latter, whether you're a parent or a CEO.

 

 

Empathy 101: Imagine.
Duke University's Robert Thompson explains the intersection between empathy, creativity, and imagination.




 

Empathy 101: Serve.
Robert Ashcraft of Arizona State University's Lodestar Center shares one of the best lessons in empathy he received as a teen, learned at the foot of a hospital bed.