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When a wisdom circle meets regularly over an extended period of time, amazing things happen. People learn to trust the process; the circle itself becomes the teacher. Participants both receive and contribute to the group's collective wisdom. Individual visions emerge and coalesce into a shared vision. Free Online Empathy Curriculum Project 
Here’s a tool that will help you do that. It’s called a “User Empathy Maps”. Empathy mapping exposes user needs, offers community insights and reveals opportunities to reach out and connect with your end users which will help make sure you’re creating a meaningful solution.
The goal of this map is to identify the true needs of your user and to eliminate your assumptions so it’s best to do the exercise before engaging your user in order to pinpoint what you don’t know, and what you need to know and again after to see the difference between your assumptions and what you’ve learned... 
Welcome to The No-Fault Zone® — where you will find strategies to transform communication challenges in your family, school, and business. The No-Fault Zone Game has many ways to play. You choose what you want to do with it:
Practice self-compassion
Have a conversation one-on-one, at your own pace
Get to the source of problems & conflicts
Resolve a conflict mutually & peacefully
Learn & practice Nonviolent Communication
Improve family and workplace communication
Make up your own games for connection, 
Guidelines for Empathic Listening Madelyn Burley-Allen offers these guidelines for empathic listening:
Be attentive. Be interested. Be alert and not distracted. Create a positive atmosphere through nonverbal behavior.
Don't ask a lot of questions. They can give the impression you are "grilling" the speaker.
Act like a mirror -- reflect back what you think the speaker is saying and feeling.
Don't discount the speaker's feelings by using stock phrases like "It's not that bad," or "You'll feel better tomorrow."
Don't let the speaker "hook" you. This can happen if you get angry or upset, allow yourself to get involved in an argument, or pass judgment on the other person.
Indicate you are listening byProviding brief, noncommittal acknowledging responses, e.g., "Uh-huh," "I see."
Giving nonverbal acknowledgements, e.g., head nodding, facial expressions matching the speaker, open and relaxed body expression, eye contact.Invitations to say more, e.g., "Tell me about it," "I'd like to hear about that." 
This book describes the five core practices of Compassionate Listening and offers ways to practice them through a combination of theory, exercises and take-away suggestions. This 85-page book is divided into the following chapters:
Introduction What is Compassionate Listening? Listening Basics How the Heart Matters The Role of Inquiry The Opportunity of Conflict: Focus on Me The Opportunity of Conflict: Focus on Us Beyond Conflict Going Forth That empathy education should be afforded a higher priority in the New Zealand Curriculum at primary level.
empathy education in schools is expected to lead to pro-socialoutcomes, with potentially a cost-benefit ratio in terms of societal benefits for effort expended which is very good indeed, outweighing objections relating toschools being used, at their cost, to address all of society’s ills. The consciousinfusion of empathy education material into the existing curriculum, use of thewealth of material already available and a policy of the adoption of empathyeducation programmes being voluntary, are considered to make theforeseeable practical difficulties inherent in implementation of empathyeducation surmountable. 
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.
What Does It Take to Cultivate Empathy? 1. Read recollections of abuse survivors such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. They were required to underline passages where they became sexually aroused and identify instances in which their own victimization was similar. 2. Watch videotapes of survivors discussing their victimization. 3. Write narratives from the perspectives of their victims. Without reading from the narrative they had written, they were required to verbally deliver as much of the narrative as they could. 4. Role-play both the parts of their victims and their own parts as the abusers. The role-plays were videotaped and the participants watched themselves afterward. 5. Disclose offenses in great detail.
Psychodrama, Gestalt Techniques, Role-Playing, and Imitative Play
Elizabeth A. Segal,
Robert Gonzales received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1989. He met Marshall Rosenberg and Nonviolent Communication in 1985, and has been offering Nonviolent Communication training in some form since 1986 
Why develop compassion in your life? Well, there are scientific studies that suggest there are physical benefits to practicing compassion — people who practice it produce 100 percent more DHEA, which is a hormone that counteracts the aging process, and 23 percent less cortisol — the “stress hormone.”
7 Compassion Practices - Morning ritual. Greet each morning with a ritual. Try this one, suggest by the Dalai Lama: “Today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life.. - Empathy Practice - Commonalities practice. - Relief of suffering practice. - Act of kindness practice - Those who mistreat us practice. - Evening routine ... 
A 280-page illustrated manual for teachers, group leaders, facilitators, counselors, and all those who are working with groups to improve communication, learn NVC, or just to connect with each other in fun and engaging activities. (see below for detailed description of contents) GROK it! contains a facilitators guide, 150 NVC games & exercises, handouts, worksheets, and more! (click on sample pages to see table of content and a few pages). 
A Teleseminar with Sarah is a 1-1/2 hour exploration of current research into the brain and how it behaves in relationship..
How can we update and augment the field of healing and support that addresses grief with our new knowledge about what happens to body and brain in grief? - What kinds of emotions live within grief? - What is the difference between grief and suffering? - How can empathy support us in the grieving process? - Lively, interactive presentation with visuals. This class will cover: 1. Brief Review of the Brain and the Way Emotion Affects us 2. The Neurophysiology of Grief 3. The Complex Emotional Landscape of Grief 3. Grief vs. Suffering 4. A Path to Support and Self-Compassion: Empathy 5. Questions and time for integration |
Inquiring Mind: Compassion training speaks to such a profound need in the world. How did this secular program come about?
I have two requests:
Whatever science you do, make sure that it is impeccable from a scientific standard.
And secondly, whatever program you develop for teaching compassion, make sure it is completely secularized and universalizable. October 15, 2010 - In the first of two afternoon sessions, His Holiness the Dalai Lama participates in a panel regarding compassion and the development of compassion. The panel includes many Stanford faculty members as well as discussions of programs like CCARE, which focuses on how people might be trained to be more compassionate.
These sessions and the morning ones that preceded it were part of the 2010 visit to Stanford by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His visit included this session as well as several other sessions where the Dalai Lama talked about compassion and religion in the modern world. 
Connecting with Your Baby A three hour workshop for parents of a new baby or those planning to start the parenting journey.
Heart to Heart with Your Toddler – A course for parents of children from the toddler years to school age – over three Sunday afternoonsDeveloped by acclaimed psychotherapist and author of Heart to Heart Parenting and Parenting for a Peaceful World, Robin Grille…
Designed by Alice and Josette from the Empathy Foundation Free Online Empathy Curriculum Project 
Students Can Resolve Their Own Conflicts!
The No-Fault Classroom leads students ages 7-12 to develop skills in problem solving, empathic listening and conflict resolution that will last a lifetime.
Table of Contents
Use this hands-on guide to: - Empower students to prevent and resolve their own conflicts - Create a No-Fault Zone that facilitates empathy and respect - Enhance students’ emotional vocabulary and effective communication skills - Co-create a classroom culture of respect, trust and co-operation - Jumpstart learning and meet state learning requirements - Develop problem-solving skills students will use for a lifetime
This course is sponsored by Stanford¿s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE).
The intent is to cultivate self-care, resilience and the strength to make a difference in the world based on a systematic approach to compassion meditation practices.
Meditation, group discussions, real world applications and current research will be explored. 
Director of Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education,
Empathy is defined as a predominantly cognitive attribute that involves an understanding of experiences, concerns and perspectives of another person, combined with a capacity to communicate this understanding. Empathy in the context of clinical care can lead to positive patient outcomes including greater patient satisfaction and compliance, lower rates of malpractice litigation, lower cost of medical care, and lower rate of medical errors.
Also, health professionals' well-being is associated with higher empathy. Enhancing empathic engagement in patient care is one of the important tasks of medical education. In this article, I briefly describe 10 approaches for enhancing empathy in the health care environment:
- improving interpersonal skills, audio- or video - taping of encounters with patients, - exposure to role models, - role playing (aging game), - shadowing a patient (patient navigator), - hospitalization experiences, - studying literature and the arts, - improving narrative skills, - theatrical performances, - and the Balint method.
Full artilce. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1YLZ/is_4_31/ai_n56979792/?tag=mantle_skin;content 
Table of Contents
Part One gives the philosophy and theory of Compassionate Listening and what the benefits, results, and outcomes can be.
Part Two introduces the practice. Starting with basic individual preparation through inner work, one learns the basic practical steps for mastering the skills. Exercises for practice and the mastery of skills are offered. Encountering challenges is also addressed in this section.
Part Three offers ways to become more involved and possibilities for expanding this work. It includes exercises and skills for working with study groups, projects, and the broader community.
Part Four describes examples of five different models of Compassionate Listening Projects with contact information. 
The Roots of Empathy Curriculum The curriculum is comprehensive and attuned to the development and interests of the children. The 639-page curriculum is divided into nine themes, with three classroom visits supporting each theme
(a pre-family visit,family visit and post-family visit) for a total of 27 visits.
Each of the nine themes is further broken down into four age ranges: 
This website provides information about self-compassion, and is intended for students, researchers, and the general public.
Mindful Self-Compassion Core Skills training Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York Weeklong course taught with Dr. Chris Germer. The course is relevant to the general public as well as to practicing mental health professionals. 
This training is intended to support and inspire participants in breaking through and having a deeper integration of empathy than ever before.
In a supportive, community environment, we experience challenge, guidance, nurturing and support in the practices of empathy and seeing our world empathically.
Topics: -Defining Empathy
Practices ... 
Compassionate Wellbeing facilitate events that aim to help you on your way to a more compassionate relationship with your self and others, by introducing you to a range of different techniques formulated by some of the leading researchers in compassion and health today. We believe that practising compassion can indeed make you happy, and have a range of associated on our team, who have international reputations specialising in the compassionate mind (or compassion focused therapy) or compassionate mindfulness approach.
Course Content
1) Getting To Know Our Inner Cast Of Characters • Deepening And Expanding The Inner Map By Using Parts Psychology • Becoming Aware Of The Particular Way You Connect With Your Parts • Gaining An Experiential Understanding Of Empathetic Awareness • Contrasting “Empathetic Awareness” And “Responding From Our Parts” 2) Cultivating Empathetic Awareness For Our Parts 3) Becoming Aware Of The Judgments Our Parts Hold 4) Basic Inner Empathy Session |
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