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According to research, cyberbullying, the online equivalent of school-based bullying, is associated with a host of detrimental emotional, psychological, physiological, and behavioural consequences.
The findings of the study were published in the Journal of Early Adolescence. While the topic has received widespread attention in the last decade, little is known about its relationship with empathy.
1. Demonstrate empathy
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Though often confused with sympathy, which is feeling compassion for somebody, empathy is about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and seeing things from their perspective. In other words, it’s all about them.
To be a more empathetic leader, you must shift your mindset to put people first. See them as human beings rather than a means to the end of a transaction or task. With your customers, practicing empathy means establishing a relationship where you practice serving, not selling. With your colleagues, it starts with giving them the benefit of the doubt and checking in frequently. By putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, you’ll better understand their needs, which is the foundation for successful communication.
Overly empathic people may even lose the ability to know what they want or need. They may have a diminished ability to make decisions in their own best interest, experience physical and psychological exhaustion from deflecting their own feelings, and may lack internal resources to give their best to key people in their life. What’s more, unending empathy creates vulnerability to gaslighting, in which another person negates your own reality to assert his or hers. For example, when you express your dismay to your friend about being excluded from her last few get-togethers, and she replies, “Oh, you’re just being too sensitive.”
Self empathy: A way for self-care an NVC workshop with Irmraud Kauschat, CNVC-Certified Trainer Empathy in NVC for me means that I empty my mind and open my heart and listen to someone’s pain. At times I need it myself and nobody is available. For this situation NVC provides the “tool” of self-empathy. I listen to myself, to the judgements and blames I have (about myself or others), try to identify my observations, feelings and needs related to the situation and end with a specific and doable request of myself or someone else. I invite you to look especially into a painful situation related to social change, your role in society, a project you want to initiate or that doesn’t go as you wish. In this workshop you will have a chance to experience self-empathy in a written exercise and then have an exchange with others in small groups. This will hopefully provide you with a skill you can use any time when you might need it.
Can empathy be taught and learned?
Empathy is both a skill and a quality of the heart. The skill can be learned and the quality can be nurtured. Some people are natural “empaths” and need little training, just as some people are natural athletes. Clinicians in medical settings have studied the important elements of communication training and identified empathy as key to promoting patient involvement in care. Excellent written and internet/video resources are now available. At Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a training program to enhance relationship-centered communication is available to all employees. Finally, teaching empathy was the topic of a study on a medical student lecture and practice session at the 2021 American Psychosocial Oncology Society Virtual Conference (see “Facilitating Empathy in medical students with art: An exercise in focused attention, T46”). Variations on these programs are available at other institutions and websites for professional caregivers. They have one important element in common: recognition of empathy as a key component in helpful communication with patients.
How to Teach Empathy
Start young. The foundation for empathy is real human connection, even if you think your toddler is too young to begin learning this skill. They are not. You can begin the groundwork by simply talking to them. Narrate your day. Narrate your thoughts when playing or spending time with your child. This can be as simple as “Mom is really excited about this food!” or “Dad didn’t really like stubbing his toe.”
Even if your child is not verbal yet, you are teaching them cues to what is going on around them. When children get older they can begin using these cues to curate their own responses to others, and their own responses to their own emotions as well.
Our atrophied empathy has caused our culture to reach a point where having the same goals no longer unifies us. If our goals do not unify us, nothing will, and community will be lost. This is tragic, but it can be remedied. Start exercising your empathy muscles. Start with those closest to you and work your way out. Ask questions and begin to learn the other person’s story. Let yourself care about the other person regardless of their opinions. Maybe then our common goals can unify us, and we can begin the long journey toward a community with an empathy surplus!
7 Empathic Listening Tips
1. Practice non-judgment.
Although it's not always simple, letting go of your own ideas allows you to concentrate on the viewpoint of the other person. Understanding someone else's opinions and feelings enables you to assist them. It's important to let them know you care about them and that they matter, which doesn't mean you have to agree with everything they say.
2. Give the individual your whole attention.
Avoid any commotion. Make sure you have the time to spend with the individual, and make sure nothing, not even a computer, is in the way. Respect is demonstrated by giving someone your complete attention, and people are more likely to remain calm when they experience respect.
3. Pay close attention (to feelings and facts).
Would you participate in a Street Prophets Empathy Circle?
by linkage - July 18, 2022
"I’m thinking about starting a Empathy Circle for Street Prophets. I the idea is to meet on Zoom for about 2 hours and discuss a topic related to electing more and better Democrats and promoting more empathy in the Democratic Party. Jump the fold for a video on Empathy Circles and a little more explanation. The poll question is: Would you participate in a Street Prophets Empathy Circle?"
Empathy Circles | My thoughts about grassroots organizing - #1 by linkage - August 01, 2022 "My first diary on my activism, 12/13/2010, Empathy, Politics, and Activism #1 was inspired by a meeting with Edwin Rutsch, founding director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy. The meeting was in person and Edwin and spoke to me about the empathy and his some of his plans. The meeting with Edwin Rutsch had an influence on me because I walked away resolved to conduct my club meetings in the round. This was in stark contrast to the usual speaker and audience arrangement. "
. Her doctoral thesis tackled one of phenomenology’s most pressing questions: it was called On the Problem of Empathy.
For Stein, “the problem of empathy” was more than a theoretical subject: it guided her brief life in unexpected ways—killed for being Jewish, she was at the time of her death a Catholic nun. Too often overlooked as a thinker, she is now one of the six patron saints of Europe known as St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
What is empathy? While the word only came into the English language in the early 20th century as a translation of the German term Einfühlung or “feeling into,” the problem of empathy has long been a key question in philosophy.
The pandemic brought to light new challenges and needs for workers. Companies have to focus on those needs to ensure their employees are engaged and feel like their needs are being met. Empathy is critical to understanding and engaging the workforce. In order for businesses to create a more empathetic and innovative environment, a culture of curiosity needs to be cultivated. Breaking down barriers, embracing diversity and inclusion, and bringing it to the forefront of company strategy will help drive a more empathetic and innovative culture.
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A new study has found that more empathy can help combat cyberbullying among youth. Bullying has been a problem for generations, but how children are bullied has drastically changed. It is likely that when our parents were young, they were victims of bullying on the playground, and then they went home.
Last Saturday I attended my second training session to become a Empathy Circle Facilitator. The lesson was for me to conduct an half hour session as the Facilitator. And this morning I attended a Empathy Circle Cafe where I was able to practice being the Facilitator for about an hour and a half.
It was a group of about 7 people and we all talked about the environment. My job as Facilitator was to explain the process and make everyone feel it was a safe place to express themselves.
I must confess I got similar feeling about this online event that I felt at the farmers market. The group was from around the world. As the session progressed most all the participants volunteered a recent experience they had with environmental loss or destruction. This was a very powerful sharing that each of us was sensitive to loss. I felt I was not alone.
Have you been training your empathy lately? Just like our muscles, we can train ourselves to be more empathetic and there is science to prove it. Listen in as we speak with Dr. Helen Riess, the founder and CEO of Empathetics and Psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, about the neuroscience and benefits of empathy in healthcare.
How to Thrive as an Empath is a self-help book for empaths who need to know how to use their gifts in order to empower themselves and grow. Being an empath is a curse, a challenge, and, ultimately, a blessing. In a powerful guide rich with inspiration and sharp insights, Andrea Bossoni perfectly depicts it throughout 16 enlightening chapters.
Stephanie Briggs is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the Community College of Baltimore County in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the recent recipient of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society Building Communities grant for “Practical Empowerment: Building Contemplative Communities With Students of Color.” She has fully incorporated arts- and movement-based contemplative practices into her English classes and started a Contemplative Communities Circle group, now in its second year, for faculty and staff that focuses on social justice, compassion, and self-care.
Role of empathy in cyber-bullying
Empathy is the ability to understand and collate human emotions that are possessed by other individuals. Recent researches have found a deep connection between empathy and incidents of cyber-bullying. Researchers are of the view that adolescent children, who develop empathy are less likely to bully other children.
According to Cyber-bullying and Empathy in the Age of Hyperconnection: An Interdisciplinary Approach, published in Frontiers in Sociology in October, 2020, “In fact, the term Empathy has been used to describe sympathy or compassion. The interdisciplinary approach allows a broader and more innovative analysis to better understand the phenomenon of cyber-bullying and to conceptualize new intervention strategies in the social and educational fields to open new frontiers in research”.
Role of parents
Parents have the most crucial role in a child’s personality development, because they have the greatest influence over them. May all parents take a vow to inculcate empathy among their children. This can not only save other children from becoming victims to bullying and cyber-bullying, it can save precious lives from getting ruined and would make the world a better plac
Empathy can be learned, and it is the medicine the world needs right now, as having this trait can bring about greater success, both personally and professionally. Being empathetic can also lead to happiness, because when others feel what you’re feeling, that inspires a sense of inner contentment.
Those who are empathetic, otherwise known as “empaths,” are like sponges when it comes to human emotions. They feel everything that other beings do—whether humans or animals. They tend to get fatigued in crowds because they feel everyone’s energy, thoughts, and motivations. They are people who process all that is told to them, and in this way, they almost always practice “effective and compassionate listening.”
Dominant theoretical models of autism and resultant research enquiries have long centered upon an assumed autism-specific empathy deficit. Associated empirical research has largely relied upon cognitive tests that lack ecological validity and associate empathic skill with heuristic-based judgments from limited snapshots of social information. This artificial separation of thought and feeling fails to replicate the complexity of real-world empathy, and places socially tentative individuals at a relative disadvantage
The four modules are: - Empathy, and how books build it: key research and ideas
- Practical approaches to choosing and using books to build empathy
- Building key empathy skills
- Empathy Day
The cost (note - this information has been updated for clarity since first published): Booking individual modules
£65 per person, per module or £115 per pair, per module - two people attending from the same organisation (saving £15)
"For today's suggested topic lets consider Empathy Circles.... In last weeks Monday Coffee Hour I introduced the concept of an Empathy Circle and took a poll on how many readers were able to zoom. I discussed the benefits of the process and provided a link to a introduction video. A few days ago I attended a Empathy Circles in Schools session. Jump the fold and I will share a bit of my experience with everyone along with an short explanation of the process... I remarked in the last session I attended that even the silence was powerful. For many it is hard to speak in front of an audience. Just having the group respectfully wait for the speaker to choose the right words for me was something special. Just imagine stopping time for moment so those with speaking challenges could catch up. It was magic seeing and hearing a group of strangers being kind and considerate of everyone present. "
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As a UX designer, I’ve always leaned on empathy and user research to design meaningful and relevant product experiences. Both help me understand the needs of users and businesses and find common ground where everyone wins.
But over the last few years, I’ve discovered that empathy is much more than just a product tool for me. I’m wired to be an empath. When I began owning this part of my identity—instead of fighting against it—I evolved into a stronger, more relatable manager and leader.
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