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Acting and Empathy
Acting is a transformational experience. It is the art of communicating stories but it is also the art of receiving the stories that others are trying to tell you. Quite simply, it is the art of empathy. Those who acquire some of acting’s basic skill sets can use them to become stronger leaders and more successful managers and negotiators. We have designed a week that will inspire actors and refine their skills. It will give other professionals invaluable insights into others and themselves.
As part of Hult Changemakers empathy week we organised activities for each day, it was meant to get all of us closer as a group but as well create a meaningful awareness of certain important problems. Acting selflessly for a social cause is great in itself but when you do it and actually are able to challenge and provoke others around you is considered even a greater success. What we as Changemakers did during that week was a milestone for Hult, it was something I would not have dreamed for back when first set foot here in 2010.
The Roots of Empathy program was implemented provincewide in the 2002/03 school year and 35,000 kindergarten to Grade 8 students have experienced it. Program founder Mary Gordon visited Winnipeg Wednesday, and said she came up with the idea after seeing one similarity in all the child abuse and neglect cases she encountered. "The common denominator was an absence of empathy." The parent had never felt it or seen it, said the internationally renowned teacher, children's advocate and parenting expert. The program she founded in 1996 brings babies and parents into the classroom so kids can see a healthy bond and identify with a vulnerable infant. Roots of Empathy has been adopted around the world and Gordon has been invited to speak at the United Nations about how showing compassion to kids can change behaviour, if not the world.
Experts in Emotion Series; Director: June Gruber, Yale University
In this episode, you will learn about Empathy with Dr. Jamil Zaki from Stanford University. Dr. Zaki will share what first got him interested in this topic and highlight a few core themes in his research. Dr. Zaki will discuss exciting future discoveries on this topic. The interview will conclude with a few words of advice for getting involved in the field of emotion.
0:00 Chapter 1. Introduction to Dr. Jamil Zaki
1:12 Chapter 2. What got you interested in studying emotion?
2:27 Chapter 3. What are the central discoveries of your work?
16:37 Chapter 4. What do you see in store for the future of emotion?
18:03 Chapter 5. What is your advice to viewers?
Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion — the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior. A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, recentlypublished online in the journal Psychological Science, is the first to investigate whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion. by Helen Weng
Utilitarian judgment may arise not simply from enhanced cognitive control but also from diminished emotional processing and reduced empathy, according to a report by Liane Young, assistant professor of psychology at Boston College in Massachusetts... The researchers' findings show there is a key relationship between moral judgment and empathic concern in particular, specifically feelings of warmth and compassion in response to someone in distress. In a series of experiments, utilitarian moral judgment was revealed to be specifically associated with reduced empathic concern, and not with any of the demographic or cultural variables tested, nor with other aspects of empathic responding, including personal distress and perspective taking. The study of 2748 people consisted of three experiments involving moral dilemmas. In two of the experiments, the scenario was presented to participants in both "personal" and "impersonal" versions.
Young women are using Botox as a 'preventive measure', but facial paralysis inhibits the ability to mirror others' expressions There has been a study into the effects of Botox on the ability to empathise, but nothing that specifically addresses the impacts on friendship, or the mother-infant bond. The absence of discussion around the effect of Botox on mothering is troubling considering that a mother's display of emotions is how the infant learns to interact with the world. Psychologists have a method for testing infant distress at unresponsive faces called the "still face paradigm". Any alarm bells ringing? by Jessie Cole:
Do we all have the power of empathy? Are we hardwired to know what other people want? Is it easy to think about other people's thoughts?.. With empathy doctors and nurses can connect, engage and empower patients. Empathy allows us to understand what patients are experiencing. By acknowledging their emotional state and listening attentively, we can engage our patients and empower them to be proactive and in charge of their health care. Empathy will fosters trust, a partnership forms and the healing process begins. So if we're all well equipped to think about other people's thoughts as Saxe concluded, doctors and nurses can think about their patients lives on hold and empathetically help them get back to their loved ones and back to their lives. Barbara Ficarra
- Nearly 16,000 people saw the Dalai Lama Sunday at the KFC Yum! Center as he spoke about compassion. "Welcome to engaging compassion," WAVE 3's Dawne Gee said on stage as she helped kick off the event.
"Please join me in welcoming His Holiness, the Dalai Lama," said Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer as he introduced him. The Dalai Lama spoke and took questions from the audience, with his main message focusing on compassion toward each other and the environment. "Compassion means being considerate of others well being, rather than one's selfish interest," he said. By Matt McCutcheon
The Dalai Lama spoke for about 40 minutes and then took questions from the audience of about 15,000 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville Sunday afternoon. The Dalai Lama kicked off his long-anticipated visit to Louisville by blessing the temple at the Drepung Gomang Institute in St. Matthews Sunday morning. by Peter Smith
The Dalai Lama says people should practice tolerance and forgiveness to have a more compassionate life, which was the theme of his speech Sunday to an estimated crowd of 14,000 at the KFC Yum Center. The Dalai Lama is on a three-day visit to Louisville, where he’s already blessed the Drepung Gomang Institute, which is helping to host the events.On Sunday, the Dalai Lama told the crowd that this is the century of compassion.
There’s a reason why being kind to others is good for you — and it can now be traced to a specific nerve. When it comes to staying healthy, both physically and mentally, studies consistently show that strong relationships are at least as important as avoiding smoking and obesity. But how does social support translate into physical benefits such as lower blood pressure, healthier weights and other physiological measures of sound health? A new study published in Psychological Science suggests that the link may follow the twisting path of the vagus nerve, which connects social contact to the positive emotions that can flow from interactions. By Maia Szalavitz
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It's not a word often heard in politics and on the news, but "empathy" is something that today's leaders might want to cultivate -- at least, so says performer and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. In an upcoming workshop in San Francisco, Smith aims to teach the art of empathy, and it's not just for actors. "
I’m a little behind on my reading, so I only just got to last week’s New Yorker. In it, I discovered a remarkable, thought-provoking essay by superstar psychologist Paul Bloom. It’s called “The Baby in the Well: The case against empathy,” and it does, indeed, make a compelling case against empathy. As Bloom puts it: “Empathy has some unfortunate features–it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.”
Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg’s Autism and Empathy website started me thinking about the whole empathy question in regards to autistic people -- again. In my first post about autistics and empathy, I mentioned Theory of Mind issues as one of the possible reasons why there is a perception that autistic people lack empathy. With what I had read about Theory of Mind at the time, I’m now reexamining the concept and wondering if I had gotten it slightly wrong, especially in light of the recent challenges that other autistic writers have made to the prevailing ideas about autistics and Theory of Mind.
For her 2012 tour, Alanis Morissette took her whole family — husband Mario “Souleye” Treadway and their toddler Ever — around the world as the supposed former infatuation junkie supported her eighth studio album, Havoc and Bright Lights.
Anyone who has ever cared for another during an illness, following a death, during a mental illness, drug addiction, or any of the many loss scenarios that exist understand that compassion will involve fatigue and stress.Caretaking involves energy of the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual kind. It is hard to care for another. It is also rewarding and meaningful. But, it is difficult and the caregiver must take care as well. Compassion fatigue is also known as secondary traumatic stress (STS). It used to be referred to as caregiver burnout. Caregiving is an individual activity when one cares for a child, spouse, loved one, or close friend. Caregiving extends into the ranks of professionals who show up every day to take care of you and those you care about. By NANETTE BURTON MONGELLUZZO
I thought about compassion and what it really means. Compassion generally is concerned with understanding someone’s situation, being present for them, loving them and wishing for things to be different. According to scholars, the Latin roots of the word suggest that it literally means to suffer together. And, Buddhists speak of compassion as being a wish for others to be free from suffering. What’s interesting is that no matter whose definition you use, compassion is other-focused. It is not about us or what we need. If you take those definitions at face value, it would seem to indicate that you should always try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes but never call them on it or take measures to keep yourself safe. by Rebecca Gladding, M.D.
Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Classic moral dilemmas are often defined by the conflict between a putatively rational response to maximize aggregate welfare (i.e., the utilitarian judgment) and an emotional aversion to harm (i.e., the non-utilitarian judgment). Here, we address two questions. First, what specific aspect of emotional responding is relevant for these judgments? Second, is this aspect of emotional responding selectively reduced in utilitarians or enhanced in non-utilitarians? The results reveal a key relationship between moral judgment andempathic concern in particular (i.e., feelings of warmth and compassion in response to someone in distress). Utilitarian participants showed significantly reduced empathic concern on an independent empathy measure. These findings therefore reveal diminished empathic concern in utilitarian moral judges. Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht and Liane Young
There were several levels of security for the public and the media, from bomb sniffing dogs to Metro Police at the KFC Yum! Center; enough to rival a presidential visit. But unlike a Louisville Cards basketball game or concert the focus of His Holiness was love and compassion.
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, blessed the masses and spread his inner joy. His signature laugh was heard on loudspeakers.
Professional dog trainer Annie Phenix writes about how lovings dogs helped her overcome a rough childhood. There are a lot of animals in my life. My family includes four rescued dogs, one purebred German Shepherd, two quarter horse geldings, a host of familiar wildlife, and six donkeys. The donkeys are the most important because, for me, they serve as fat, hairy therapy machines. I’ve learned that most donkeys are curious about us and enjoy nothing more than to sit with a human friend in a pasture, receiving many indulgent pets. They love us even though we’ve dismissed them throughout the centuries as nothing more than beasts of burden. However, the burden they are most suited for is loosening up our emotional ones...
If an animal has helped you heal from an emotional wound, I would love to hear about your experiences. If you haven’t been healed by an animal yet, never fear: There is still time.
America's largest "Compassionate City" received instructions on Sunday from the Tibetan holy man who may be the world's living symbol of hope and forgiveness. The Dalai Lama spoke to more than 14,000 people in Louisville's KFC Yum! Center, a recently built arena on the Ohio River that, on other occasions, hosts rock concerts and University of Louisville Cards basketball games. "Concern with others' well being: that is compassion," the 77-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader declared. "Compassion must come from there," he added, pointing toward his heart. by Keith Runyon
Without even an introduction, the 14th Dalai Lama took the stage in Louisville on Sunday to deliver a public talk at the KFC Yum! Center, the first event of his three-day Engaging Compassion visit to the city.
Taken by surprise, the diverse crowd of more than 14,000 slowly stood in ovation, then elation, as they recognized the Tibetan spiritual leader moments before he gave his hour speech.
By AMANDA BEAM
Exiled Tibetan leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner the Dalai Lama came to Louisville on Sunday for the first time since 1994, bringing his distinctive message of compassion not just for all humans but for other species. The Dalai Lama called for a "century of compassion," and said Americans, because they live under a system that gives them more political autonomy, have a greater responsibility to push for peace. "Try to maintain a more peaceful mind," the spiritual leader told the crowd. By Cheryl Truman
http://j.mp/12NrDMv They held posters depicting their dead family members, waved small yellow “compassion” flags and wore T-shirts that said: “Put down the guns; we want our city back.” A few hundred people participated in a “compassion walk” along Broadway in the West End on Saturday. The purpose, according to organizer Christopher 2X, was to support about 2,000 people who have survived gunshot wounds in Louisville in the last decade, including two women and a young girl who inspired the march and helped lead it
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