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Welcome to a world of changemaking. For the next two weeks we welcome you to explore, with changemakers around the world, the topic of Empathy.
Do you want your children to be tolerant, compassionate, and kind? Do you worry about bullying? Do you aspire to a greater sense of community? As parents, citizens and students, so do we. 
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Peace educator Maya Soetoro-Ng said during her current visit to the Southeast Asian country that understanding identity, history and current events from different points of view could be a great multicultural learning process for the country. Soetoro-Ng is American President Barack Obama’s half-sister.
“Here in Malaysia, as well as in the US and Indonesia, people are thinking about identities and their connections — politically, economically or globally.
“Encouraging this conversation around shared languages, arts and culture will help to foster empathy and increase one’s sense of belonging to each other.
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We now have a model of the empathic process that allows us to discuss the various aspects of empathy in a more complete way, but I have yet to make the case that such an account is vital to our understanding of deliberative democracy.
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by Michael E. Morrell
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A few weeks ago, I took part in a gathering of Interfaith Just Peacemakers at the Boston University School of Theology, courageous women and men who focus their lives around imagining and mobilizing religious discourse as a resource for sustainable peace. As we unpacked the 10 key practices of just peacemaking, I was struck yet again by the central importance of deep listening, that is, hearing, receiving and even revering narratives that conflict with our own.
"The capacity for empathy is vital when working towards peace. Empathy requires that a person look past his or her own interests and perspective and come to an understanding of the other side."
Homayra Ziad
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Leah Weiss Ekstrom is a Contemplative Educator whose research and teaching focuses on the application of meditation in secular contexts. Leah has engaged in extensive retreat practice in the Kagyu/Nyingma traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. She is also trained as a clinical social worker having worked with refugees in India, Nepal, and the United States..
Currently, Leah is Director of Compassion Education at Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). She is on the cusp of completing her doctoral degree in Theology and Education.
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DOGS feel your pain and want you to know they are there for you. That's the message from boffins at Goldsmiths University who have published research showing domestic dogs show empathy when confronted with human distress.
Ms Mayer said: "The dogs approached whoever was crying regardless of their identity. "Thus they were responding to the person’s emotion, not their own needs, which is suggestive of empathic-like comfort-offering behaviour." By Mark Chandler STUDY: Empathic-like responding by domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to distress in humans: An exploratory study http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7074/ Empathy covers a range of phenomena from cognitive empathy involving metarepresentation to emotional contagion stemming from automatically triggered reflexes. An experimental protocol first used with human infants was adapted to investigate empathy in domestic dogs. Dogs oriented toward their owner or a stranger more often when the person was pretending to cry than when they were talking or humming.
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As human beings, we will inevitably encounter suffering at some point in our lives. However, we also have evolved very specific social mechanisms to relieve that pain: altruism and compassion.
Why, in a country that consumes 25% of the world's resources (the U.S.), is there an epidemic of loneliness, depression, and anxiety? Why do so many in the West who have all of their basic needs met still feel impoverished? While some politicians might answer, "It's the economy, stupid," Based on scientific evidence, a better answer is, "It's the lack compassion, stupid."
by James R. Doty, M.D.
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I first called the model “group-centered leadership.” As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I was asked by my professor and mentor, Dr. Carl Rogers, to contribute a chapter to a book he was writing. I had become interested in the field of leadership while attending the National Training Laboratory (NTL), the birthplace of the “group dynamics” movement. Rogers saw that my model of leadership was an application of his new client-centered psychotherapy methodology....
Active Listening The skill of reflecting back the meanings and feelings of group members in order to test out the leader’s understanding of their messages (empathic listening). Carl Rogers referred to it as “reflection of feelings.” I had learned how to do this effectively while a staff member of the University of Chicago Counseling Center in 1946-47, where I did counseling with students. Previous research had shown this skill encouraged clients to talk freely about their problems.
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By Thomas Gordon, Ph.D.
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Can treating oneself with compassion after making a mistake increase self-improvement motivation? In four experiments, the authors examined the hypothesis that self-compassion motivates people to improve personal weaknesses, moral transgressions, and test performance. Participants in a self-compassion condition, compared to a self-esteem control condition and either no intervention or a positive distraction control condition, expressed greater incremental beliefs about a personal weakness approach to personal failure may make people more motivated to improve themselves.
Juliana G. Breines
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A viable approach to increasing STEM starts with empathy...
The best technology, she says, is the kind that improves human-to-human connection, fundamentally changing the way people live. The secret? According to her, it's all about empathy. Lathan isn't alone. Many leading thinkers and doers -- from Arianna Huffington to Oprah -- have touted empathy as a crucial skill for America's future success on the global playing field and for an individual's future success in America.
One of Steve Jobs' six pillars of design, empathy has been hailed by Fast Company as a creative business's most powerful tool and recognized in the Harvard Business Review as the single most important thing the school can teaches.
by Laura Zax
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can babies, under a year old, help prevent bullying and aggressive behaviour in Toronto schools? Yes. The work of the world's youngest educators is at the heart of Roots of Empathy, Canada's most established and researched bullying prevention program. Since last fall, these 'tiny teachers' have been visiting classrooms throughout Toronto schools, helping students to first recognize emotions in the baby, then in themselves, and finally in others: the first step to understanding the shared humanity in us all, and the launching pad for developing empathy.
Almost 100 babies joined in today's celebration,
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'New research finds that forgiving yourself works best. ..
The good news of this study is not just that self-compassion supports self-improvement. It's how easy it can be to shift from a self-critical or self-enhancing mindset to a self-compassionate mindset. Writing for 3 minutes? That's something all of us can do when we need a little encouragement and motivation. These studies suggest that you can choose a self-compassionate point of view, and this will help you recover from setbacks and pursue positive change.'
By Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D....
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The simple act of listening may be one of the most effective and least expensive medicines around.
Sometimes the best "medicine" is simply becoming an empathetic, compassionate listener." Rev. Alisdair Smith, co-founder of the Greater Vancouver Compassion Network, and deacon of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, spoke with me about this "compassion effect." His most important point: compassion is a practical action, and, like listening, its effects can be limitless. For those who follow a religious teaching, com-passion is grounded in a counsel common to many sacred scripts, "to love your neighbour as yourself."
By Anna Bowness-Park
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Helen was playing in the sandbox in the park, when a brawl between a brother and sister broke out near her. Helen looked up from her work to see them arguing over a shovel, knocking each other to the ground. She watched intently for a while then calmly looked around, found two more shovels, and walked over to them. She handed one to the brother and the other to his sister. The fighting stopped, the girl handed Helen the shovel they had been fighting over, and they all went back to playing happily in the sandbox.
by Rick Ackerly
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I just love childhood brilliance!
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by Tim Leberecht
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More than ever children need skills in how to work with changing teams of collaborators and how to seek solutions rooted in the needs of others, the author says.
So it came as quite a surprise to me – and a breath of fresh air – to discover that the leadership at a prestigious high school in China is heading in a very different direction. Peking University High School is focusing on a skill its educators believe is the key to success in the 21st century. Not calculus, not computer programming, not filling in little ovals; this forward-thinking institution emphasizes teaching empathy.
By Alison Hockenberry
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As people with disabilities, we also appreciate the independence these appliances are providing. We are eating at home more and enjoying being at home more and feel like we are able to manage homemaking tasks with much more ease and reserve energy for more important tasks.
Empathy is the first step .... Designers need to understand how users will use the design. This requires empathy. A designer has to put herself or himself into the place of the user and see how they will use the design in their everyday lives.
By Carl Wilkerson, M.B.A....
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The Center for Engaged Compassion has been commissioned by Prison Fellowship Canada to develop and facilitate a compassion formation program. This newly developed program facilitated by Frank Rogers, Andy Dreitcer, and Mark Yaconelli is now open to the general public.
The program involves three, three-day retreats held in San Francisco, California followed by weekly practices taught through online forums and instruction. The exploratory course is entitled “The Way of Radical Compassion: Practicing the Spiritual Path of Jesus,”
Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Lincoln University
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James is Stanford Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery and founding director of the Center for the Study of Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). 'CCARE is striving to create a community of scholars and researchers, including neuroscientists, psychologists, educators and philosophical and contemplative thinkers around the study of compassion.'
He says we have to go beyond mindfulness to a transcendent connection between people. We can get beyond loneliness, isolation and depression to have a more sustained happiness, by contributing to the wellbeing of others.
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The political role of empathy sometimes comes in for criticism, particularly among conservatives. "I feel your pain" smacks of too much Clinton, too much Oprah. Empathy is dismissed as a source of naive, counterproductive public policy, which it can be.
But critics of such sentiments run headlong into the example of Abraham Lincoln, whom his contemporaries described as having an unusual talent for empathy. His hatred of slavery can be traced to early experiences of seeing people shackled in irons, which caused a visceral reaction. "That sight was a continued torment to me," wrote Lincoln, "and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave border. ... I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable."
by Michael Gerson
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For some reason I’ve been having a lot of conversations about empathy recently.
by David R. Hamilton PhD
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Liberals, Haidt tells us, value care and empathy. But empathy can extend to either protecting people from bullying or to protecting them from a heart attack. In both cases the instincts are to protect, sympathize and valorize the pain of the other. Empathy is the key emotion.
Conservatives, on the other hand according to Haidt, place more value on authority and something he calls “proportionality.” That is, the proper and judicious use of measures which allow personal responsibility.
Richard Handler
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Identifying physical differences in the brains of psychopathic violent offenders suggests there may be hope in rehabilitating other violent criminals.
When it comes to committing violent crime, psychopaths may not be bad to the bone, but a new brain study suggests they may lack key neural structures—literally less gray matter—involved in empathy, moral reasoning, and feelings of guilt.
by Michael Haederle
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