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Musical group interaction (MGI) is a complex social setting requiring certain cognitive skills that may also elicit shared psychological states. We argue that many MGI-specific features may also be important for emotional empathy, the ability to experience another person’s emotional state. We thus hypothesized that long-term repeated participation in MGI could help enhance a capacity for emotional empathy even outside of the musical context, through a familiarization with and refinement of MGI empathy-promoting musical components (EPMCs). Tal-Chen Rabinowitch - University of Cambridge, UK
Ian Cross - University of Cambridge, UK
Pamela Burnard - University of Cambridge, UK
Kacie Kinzer explores what technology can reveal about empathy and cooperation.
You're trying to find empathy for a communication purpose, said Yiying who tries to associate an emotion or a response to the image.
In the example of the SXSW Interactive bag, it's the image of a whack-a-mole game, an interactive game that's exhausting, which is exactly the feeling she felt last year when she attended SXSW for the first time.
She felt like she was being whacked every single night.
"Everyone is exhausted but accelerated by this event," Yiying said.
True Compassion is a collaborative workshop series, ephemeral mural and video. Organized by Intersection for the Arts, artist Evan Bissell worked with staff and clients of Larkin Street Youth Services (LSYS) to define and investigate the nature and limitations of compassion.
This is video documentation of an interactive video installation where gallery vistors interacted in various ways with the projections of other people's faces on their own.
Compassion At Play: Exploring Empathy Through Drama Drama major Xandra Clark's Senior Project. Compassion At Play: Exploring Empathy Through Drama is a performance created by the fourth and fifth graders of Costaño Elementary School in East Palo Alto. Performances are in Prosser Studio Theater on March 8 & 9 at 5:30pm, and on March 14 at 5:30pm in the Costaño Elementary School Gym.
What empathy allows us to do is viscerally imagine the current physical state of the other, and, as an extension, their future actions. We do this by conjuring up and synthesizing our own embodied knowledge through a heightened awareness of the signals perceived from the other.
I started thinking about other books that evoke empathy -- A Long Walk to Water and Home of the Brave came to mind immediately because of recent conversations with colleagues about the power of these two books as read alouds in their fourth and fifth grade classrooms. And I decided to start a new shelf in Goodreads: Empathy. Here are the books I tagged (some are adult/YA): ....After spring break, I plan to ask my students to put their other reading aside and read from a collection of (age-appropriate for 4th graders) books I gather so that we can use literature to help us learn about, experience, have conversations about, and practice EMPATHY.
If you help people who are poor it helps build community and it helps other people heal and strengthen their faith," says 11-year old Senna, a student of St. John Brebeuf, whose work is on display at The Art of Compassion. The Compassionate Cities campaign has taken off in Canada, and an interfaith group in Winnipeg has signed on to bring it to our city. One of the the results is The Art of Compassion, an exhibit created by Winnipeg students in response to the idea of compassion. It features 200 works of art by students from eight diverse Winnipeg schools
Andrzej Głowacki - new book "From Empathy to Cyberspace" - Design Education Ideas - presented during IMM Cologne Fairs...
For 11-year-old Camryn Kangas, compassion is as simple as being friendly to her classmates, and as involved as caring about people who are completely different from her.
"It's a really big part of life, and you really need compassion in the world for people to be equal and get along with each other," explains the Grade 6 student at St. John Brebeuf School.
In addition to that eloquent explanation, Camryn and her classmates at the Roman Catholic elementary school in River Heights are dancing, singing, chanting and even rapping their feelings and thoughts about compassion.
“We look around us and realise that something needs to be done, yet find no immediate solutions…We must look at our community with compassion, estimate its strengths as well as its weaknesses, and assess its potential for change.” – Karen Armstrong In a city that has just made it to the cover of Time Magazine as one of the most violent cities in the world, Students at Karachi University visual arts department take a challenge to design a compassionate city campaign for Karachi.
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New research from the U.K.suggests certain types of group music-making can help kids develop empathy... Music education produces myriad benefits, strengthening kids’ abilities in reading, math, and verbal intelligence. New British research suggests it may also teach something less tangible, but arguably just as important:
The ability to empathize.
In a year-long program focused on group music-making, 8- to 11-year old children became markedly more compassionate, according to a just-published study from the University of Cambridge. The finding suggests kids who make music together aren’t just having fun: they’re absorbing a key component of emotional intelligence.
By Tom Jacobs
Reasearch by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch
Darwin College, Cambridge
http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/CMS/people/tcnr2/
Adventures in Compassion (in the Screen Trade) - http://becompassion.blogspot.com... "One of the reasons the theatre is so well-suited to this conversation is that narrative theatre has at its heart the process of empathy. The very experience of watching a story unfold in the theatre triggers identifications – these new identifications crack open our comfortable, sedimented everyday identities and generate reactions and questions – and when a culture grapples with these questions together, it begins to change."
Janie Lancaster, a survivor of cumulative childhood traumas, shares her story of integrative, therapeutic self-healing through therapeutic/expressive writing...
When Someone Deeply Listens To You
When someone deeply listens to you
it is like holding out a dented cup
you've had since childhood
and watching it fill up with
cold, fresh water.
When it balances on top of the brim,
you are understood.
When it overflows and touches your skin,
you are loved.
When someone deeply listens to you
the room where you stay
starts a new life
and the place where you wrote
your first poem
begins to glow in your mind's eye.
It is as if gold has been discovered!. When someone deeply listens to you
your barefeet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you. — John Fox
Kara and I found Seung Chan Lim when Brene Brown posted his Realizing Empathy video on her blog, and we followed the trail and found his Facebook Page, website and kickstarter campaign for his book, Realizing Empathy. Seung Chan – also known as Slim – is a Computer Scientist and Manager by training, Designer by trade and, he says, “Performer by birth.” Just to give you an idea of his varied and creative background and current interests… prior to embarking on the Realizing Empathy project, Slim served as the Assistant Director of Engineering and Senior Software Design Engineer at MAYA Design, and was also an independent DJ, Music Producer and Performance Director by night. Slim says that when he’s not fighting for the right to empathize and to be empathized, he is acting, directing, dancing, composing, programming, or woodworking... Written by Cath Duncan
Planetarium Video for Newark Museum's Planetarium premiered February 3rd 2012.
Saya Woolfalk gave a performance/lecture last Friday afternoon at The Frist in conjunction with the fabulous Fairy Tales, Monsters & the Genetic Imagination exhibition. Woolfalk's work concerns the study of a fictional species called the Empathics, who are a hybrid of humans and plants. Her performance was two parts: In the first, she dressed as an Empath and wobbled her head to emulate talking along with a projected video showing difference parts of the culture (Overheard: "Makes you wonder what type of drugs she's on"). The work is bright and happy, and the Empathic world reminded me of more environmentally aware Dr. Seuss. Empaths are blue-skinned, with brightly colored coats, living in conjunction with the plant world
The act of making is not about creativity or innovation, but rather a challenge to empathize with the integrity of others. That other may be a character in a play, a fellow actor, a piece of wood, a dancer, or even your own body. We often think we know them, but really... have no idea.
These ideals are interpreted to provoke a design discourse discussion. Huston seeks to get her students to feel empathy with the users of their artistic furniture or, conversely, their furnituresque art, to perceive values in objects that can create a more fulfilled or meaningful life. Perhaps this is a new thinking, feeling, almost psycho-analytical development to product design, dare we say, a kinder, gentler way—the desire to encourage students to create objects that make people think and feel and respond to their environment? Huston would, in her charmingly bashful manner, say that her goal is simply to challenge these young people, to show them furniture is “the muse”... The empathy is found in designing for others and their specific lifestyle: pieces had to work with a humanistic element and had to have an emotional anchor, they had to challenge expectations and react. by sabina samiee
CyberEmpathy is a scientific journal devoted to the latest trends of art and scientific discoveries. It consists of exploring visual communication through images, new media, and public space. What we aim for is to understand as a new way of human life- a life enriched through the influences of technology and virtual reality.
The Academy Awards ceremony (The Oscars) are coming up in a couple of weeks.. Thougth I'd look at what some actors have to say about empathy. "I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist." Susan Sarandon "When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you." Susan Sarandon
The lessons she hopes to pass on to her children. “I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away,”
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