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The point of seeing a play like The Persians today is to help expand our empathic imaginations – to encourage us to look at the world through other eyes. But if Greek tragedy isn’t to your tastes, you might consider watching a film which similarly attempts to depict war from the perspective of enemies, or which otherwise has a strong empathy angle. Where should you begin? Here’s my top five:
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Colin: I think compassion focused therapy (CFT) is still relatively little known across the wider therapy world and no one is going to object to greater compassion. But in what way might the focus on compassion improve therapies that already place emphasis on unconditional positive regard and empathy? Brian Thorne, for example, has written quite a bit about tenderness in person-centred therapy.
Paul: Rogers had real insight into the importance of the therapeutic relationship based on empathy and positive regard, but compassion focused therapy integrates this in a totally different approach. Please bear in mind when reading my answers that this approach was developed for people with chronic and severe mental health difficulties – particularly with high levels of shame/self-criticism.
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Empathy is unusual in the animal kingdom, so empathy must have had some major survival benefits for it to have evolved. What might those benefits have been?
Empathy seems to have evolved in three major steps. First, among vertebrates, birds and mammals developed ways of rearing their young, as well as forms of pair bonding -- sometimes for life. Rick Hanson Empathy Expert page: http://bit.ly/lr1IVH
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It’s such an amazingly simple act, yet apparently not exactly hardwired into our automatic behavior. Letting someone know that they have been at a minimum heard and accepted (and maybe even understood, when possible) can be a critical first step towards positive change, or desired outcomes. I’ve been trying it more and more lately, and watch tension and frustration diffuse before my eyes. A simple example:
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The Pride Empathy Line provides empathy, support, and resources to the LGBTQI community. We are currently in need of more phone line volunteers.
The line is transferred to your phone which means you don't even have to leave your home. Just be available during your shift for calls. Training is provided.
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Book Review: Kathleen Barry’s “How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves.”
If empathy is putting oneself in another’s shoes, the indissoluble combination of core masculinity with brainwashing, degradation, and stripping away any sense of self aims to foreclose this response. Further, there is general agreement in the literature that sociopathy is defined as the lack of empathy. Barry contends that by replacing empathy with desensitized callousness, the military is creating sociopathic characteristics, that the military itself is a sociopathogenic institution. That is, the task of the military is to “normalize amorality for soldiers . . . the same amorality found in sociopaths.” More on Kathleen Barry http://cultureofempathy.com/References/Experts/Kathleen-Barry.htm
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About the functioning of the brain. Empathy and mirror neurons are first mentioned around 6 minute mark. and throughout the first quarter of the video.
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The B.C. government is expanding an anti-bullying program in schools across the province, targeting children in kindergarten and pre-school.
Premier Christy Clark says the Roots of Empathy program is recognized internationally as a way to teach young kids core values like respect, kindness and empathy. "Children deserve to grow up without fear of bullying," said Clark on a visit to Morley Elementary School in Burnaby. "The Roots of Empathy program delivers on that promise and helps teach young children how to act towards each other."
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The International Institute for Compassionate Cities supports compassionate initiatives in cities, towns, counties, states and provinces, regions, nations, universities, faith groups, schools, service groups, and other places where human beings gather.
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“The Science of Evil,” by Simon Baron-Cohen, seems likely to antagonize the victims of evil, the parents of children with autism spectrum disorder, at least a few of the dozens of researchers whose work he cites — not to mention critics of his views on evolutionary psychology or of his claims about the neurobiology of the sexes.
“The Science of Evil” proposes a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil. More at Simon Baron-Cohen: Empathy Expert Page: http://bit.ly/jlHrf7
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Premier Christy Clark announced today the expansion of an anti-bullying program in BC schools.The Roots of Empathy Program, an internationally recognized anti-bullying teaching program, will be expanded into an estimated 360 kindergarten classrooms this year.
The Ministry of Children and Family Development and the Ministry of Education will jointly fund the two initatives over the next five years with an annual amount of $800,000.
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Williams Syndrome is a rare genetic condition -- Williams Syndrome is caused by the deletion of roughly 25 genes.
In one experiment to test empathy, the adult experimenter bangs her knee on a table and expresses a great deal of pain. In many runs the lab recorded, the typically-developing child just watched and expressed no empathy or concern. But children with Williams often went right over to the experimenter to rub her knee and ask, "What's wrong?" With such empathy comes a lack of fear. Watching a recording of a typically-developing child reacting to a hairy, moving, toy spider, Tager-Flusberg noted, not surprisingly, "She doesn't want to approach it...and doesn't have any inclination to go near to it and touch."
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To investigate this trait, Keysers is comparing 'normally' empathic people with those who lack empathy, such as people with autism, and psychopaths. He suspects that psychopaths may be able to recognize emotions in others but that they are also able to disconnect that recognition from their own emotions.
“Our question is: do they do terrible things to other people because, unlike most of us, they do not share the pain they inflict?” says Keysers. His sophisticated trial design is intended to test whether this is the case (see 'Letting fingers do the talking')
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Observing another individual acting upon an object triggers cerebral activity well beyond the visual cortex of the observer in areas directly involved in planning and executing actions. This we will call action simulation. Importantly, the brain does not solely simulate the actions of others but also the sensations they feel, and their emotional responses.
These simulation mechanisms are most active in individuals who report being very empathic. Simulation may indeed be instrumental for our understanding of the emotional and mental state of people in our sight, and may contribute heavily to the social interactions with our peers by providing a first-person perspective on their inner feelings.
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While we watch a movie, we share the experiences of the actors we observe: our heart for instance starts beating faster while we see an actor slip from the roof of a tall building. Why? Specific brain areas are involved when we perform certain actions or have certain emotions or sensations. Interestingly, some of these areas are also recruited when we simply observe someone else performing similar actions, having similar sensations or having similar emotions.
These areas called 'shared circuits' transform what we see into what we would have done or felt in the same situation. With such brain areas, understanding other people is not an effort of explicit thought but becomes an intuitive sharing of their emotions, sensations and actions. Through the investigation of shared circuits, our lab attempts to understand the neural basis of empathy and its dysfunctions.
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What is the Compassionate Action Network?
CAN is a network of self-organizing groups who share a common vision for a compassionate world. Vision: To awaken compassion in our children, ourselves, and our world. Mission: To build a global network for self-organizing groups to connect, collaborate, and take action to awaken compassion in our children, ourselves, and our world. How Does CAN Accomplish its Mission? In 2010, CAN launched the Campaign for Compassionate Cities. To find out how one city is implementing the campaign, visit the Compassionate Seattle group. In general, CAN focuses on three areas:
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Researchers link empathy to greater sexual satisfaction for both men and women Read more by Ryan Jaslow on CBS News' HealthPop.
"Empathetic individuals are more responsive to a partner's needs, and thus initiate a positive feedback cycle," study co-author Dr. Adena Galinsky, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School's Center for Adolescent Health, said in a written statement.
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Christine King, MA and Jean Morrison, MA are both certified trainers with the global Center for Nonviolent Communication. Listen to a description of habitual reactions and conscious empathetic responses, and the distinction between these and strategies/solutions.
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The goal is to prevent bullying, the ugly incidents like a brawl between teenaged girls in Nanaimo posted to Youtube earlier this year, after one of them was lured to the scene. "The $800,000 we're spending today is going to do so much to prevent bullying in the future" says Premier Christy Clark.
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Big ideas about education and emotion flowed through the Craneway Pavillion at the TEDxGoldenGateED conference over the weekend.
The ideas found a receptive audience in the roughly 700 in attendance at the Saturday conference that attracted teachers, parents, therapists and others from throughout the Bay Area. The day included a packed schedule of speakers, performers and workshops that revolved around the central theme of compassion. http://tedxgoldengateed.org/
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He describes our global crossroads in greater detail. “Changemakers have four fundamental traits that cannot be understated: empathy, teamwork, leadership, and change-making. We are reaching the transition point very quickly, and parts of the world that do not master these traits will be left in terrible shape.”
The U.S. is headed in the direction of Detroit, he believes. “Empathy,” he says, “will be like literacy was in the 1300s. Without it, one will be marginalized and unable to function professionally.” Unless a child learns the complex skill of empathy through reinforcement and practice by age 21, she or he won’t have a chance in the global marketplace, he emphasizes. With the world changing faster and faster, he explains, the rules matter less and less. This means that we’re increasingly dependent on the people around us to guide our behavior, which requires an increasingly more sophisticated empathetic skill.
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Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. Oprah Winfrey
Dr. Marta D. Ockuly's comment,
June 13, 2011 9:17 PM
I love this quote for the relating of leadership and empathy to inspiration and empowerment. I am glad you liked it well enough on http://joyofquotesblog.com to share it with your 'world'.
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Rather than simply dismissing “evil” as a trait beyond comprehension, Baron-Cohen argues that human cruelty can be studied scientifically, just like any other human behavior, to uncover its causes and neurological bases—and what, if anything, we can do to prevent it...
This isn’t a touchy-feely proposal: If we can help kids grow into more empathic adults, we may be able to reduce cruelty and criminal behavior—a goal that’s not just compassionate but cost-effective as well. More at Simon Baron-Cohen: Empathy Expert Page: http://bit.ly/jlHrf7
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John Huff/Staff photographer Julie Person and her daughter Madison hold a copy of Foster's Daily Democrat from 2003 when they participated in a Empathy Project at Garrison School.
Students were invited to the Dover Career and Technical Center for lunch to look over photographs, birthday cards and letters written by students to Madison over the years... "I remember them bringing in the baby," said senior Merrit McLaughlin, 18. "We got to learn what it means to be empathetic and how sometimes people can't say how they feel — just like a baby can't."
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