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Edwin Rutsch
June 15, 2012 11:51 PM
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Mind with Heart is an educators' network for an education in empathy and compassion. http://www.mindwithheart.org.uk/ Mind with Heart has four objectives:
- to give young people the opportunity to investigate, experience and act out empathy and compassion through innovative educational activities;
- to research and demonstrate good practice in empathy and compassion education for young people under 25;
- to demonstrate good practice in empathy and compassion training for educators;
- to generally communicate the benefits of empathy and compassion to young people and educators.
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Edwin Rutsch
June 15, 2012 11:42 PM
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A conference for professionals in education, health and social care
London, 23-24 November The Conference will address three topics: 1. Compassion and empathy: scientific definitions, misunderstandings and function What are the scientific definitions of empathy and compassion?... 2. Compassion, the benefits at the personal level What are the findings on well-being and its relationship to empathy and compassion? 3. Compassion in action and social cohesion What potential do these these skills have to transform our communication, efficacy and relationships?... http://j.mp/MQkGB6
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Edwin Rutsch
June 14, 2012 4:57 PM
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Welcome to the Compassionate Listening Project. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform conflict and create powerful cultures of peace. We accomplish our mission through: • Trainings worldwide with our highly acclaimed curriculum;
• Skilled facilitation with families, communities, and in the workplace;
• Delegations and trainings in conflict and post-conflict zones;
• Advanced Training and Facilitator Certification;
• Publishing books and producing videos;
• Unique community building events;
• Tailored events for your needs. “An enemy is one whose story we have not heard.” – Gene Knudsen Hoffman,
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Edwin Rutsch
June 14, 2012 12:39 PM
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Brief training program improves resident physicians’ empathy with patients Resident physicians' participation in a brief training program designed to increase empathy with their patients produced significant improvement in how patients perceived their interactions with the residents. This contrasts with several studies showing that empathy with patients usually drops during medical school and residency training. The report from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers will appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and has been released online. "The most exciting message from this study is that empathy can be taught and, most importantly, that improved empathy can be perceived by our patients.
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Edwin Rutsch
June 13, 2012 8:39 PM
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"Without empathy we risk the breakdown of relationships, we become capable of hurting others, and we can cause conflict. With empathy we have a resource to resolve conflict, increase community cohesion, and dissolve another person’s pain. "
Simon Baron-Cohen, ‘Zero Degrees of Empathy’
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Edwin Rutsch
June 13, 2012 2:44 PM
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One of the greatest problems in fighting bullying is the inaction of the many people who do have empathy. Instead of a world filled with simply oppressors and victims, there is another type of person in the mix that usually gets to skate by without notice: the bystander. The bystander never does anything bad or mean or wrong. He never calls anyone ugly or dumb, he never pushes anyone around, and he never takes anyone's lunch money. How can he be held accountable when his behavior is to tacitly condone but never act? And the sick part is that at one time or another, every one of us has been a bystander while we saw someone else being harassed. It is hard to identify or judge this behavior, because it is impossible to single out one person. It is everyone. It is you. It is me. by James Clementi
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Edwin Rutsch
June 13, 2012 2:35 PM
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I’ve been reading a fascinating book by Jonathan Haidt on righteousness: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. I’d have finished it by now and started blogging about it if he hadn’t derailed me by mentioning the ideas of Simon Baron-Cohen – no, not Sacha, his cousin, though Simon’s book has clear implications for dictators. by Pete Hulme
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Edwin Rutsch
June 13, 2012 2:39 PM
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So what exactly does building empathy with someone really mean? Well in simplistic terms it means what would it be like if we were that person, to experience what they are experiencing and by leaving aside any of our own beliefs, judgements and feelings so that our communication is clear and clean of anything you might bring unintentionally. Not always an easy thing to do especially when it is with someone we are close to. By building empathy we are also then building deep rapport because when we show that we understand someone completely they feel more understood. Building empathy is all about understanding the other person. By: Lawrence Michaels
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June 12, 2012 8:22 PM
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Regularly playing music in groups may improve children's ability to empathise with others, suggests a study. Researchers from Cambridge University compared empathy skills in children who played weekly music-based games for a year with those who did not. The musical group scored higher in end-of-year tests of how well they recognised other people's emotions. Lead author Tal-Chen Rabinowitch said: "Musical interaction may enhance a capacity for emotional empathy."
More about: Tal-Chen Rabinowitch
http://bit.ly/KQZRY5
By Judith Burns http://goo.gl/QZk0t
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June 12, 2012 6:22 PM
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David Hazen is a peace activist living in in Eugene, Oregon. He is author of, Love Always Wins: Hope for Healing the Epidemic of Violence.
He is an Imagineer, Eugene City of Peace. Advisor, International Cities of Peace. Peacemaker of the Year 2011, Nobel Peace Laureate Project
How to build a culture of empathy?
We live in a culture of violence. There is no quick and easy way out. And yet there is a path for walking away from it, one step at a time. As far as I know, there is no other way - there is no shortcut to learning how to love than surrendering to the process, letting go of old self-serving fears, defenses and rigid beliefs, letting go
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June 12, 2012 6:18 PM
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Patricia (Tish) Jennings is Co-Leader of the "Program on Empathy Awareness and Compassion in Education (PEACE)" at Penn State University. "The PEACE area seeks to promote health and wellbeing in children, youth and families through the scientific understanding and promotion of awareness, compassion and empathy. The program includes faculty, research associates and students whose work focuses on developing a strong multidisciplinary science in this emerging area.
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Edwin Rutsch
June 12, 2012 6:17 PM
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Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for Slate and is a commentator on various national media programs such as NPR, Rachael Maddow Show, Democracy Now, etc. She has written and commented on the role of empathy in relationship to the Supreme Court, same-sex marriage and woman's issues.
There was a great deal of contention and confusion about the nature of empathy during the last Supreme Court nomination hearings. We talked about preparing now, for the next Senate discussions and debates about the role of empathy in the justice system and Supreme Court.
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June 12, 2012 6:14 PM
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Muna Awad is Programs Director at the Charter for Compassion-Jordan. She has 15 years of experience working in education as teacher, trainer and private tutor. She worked as head of department for training youth. Muna developed creative positive parenting tools: “Mother’s ToolBox” to help parents creatively overcome the challenges they face raising their children and be able to inspire them to become better people. She feels education is the best way to build a culture of empathy and compassion.
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June 15, 2012 11:49 PM
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Vinciane Rycroft is Director and Co-Founder at Mind with Heart, an educators' network for a secular education in empathy and compassion. The main focus is on creating the conditions for young people to come to a firm commitment to empathy and compassion based on their own reasoning, experience and initiative. Hosting the Conference: Empathy and Compassion in Society. The Conference will address three topics:
1. Compassion and empathy: scientific definitions, misunderstandings and function.
2. Compassion, the benefits at the personal level.
3. Compassion in action and social cohesion
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Edwin Rutsch
June 15, 2012 11:34 PM
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As the Dalai Lama shares his message of dialogue and compassion in the UK in the coming days, we might find ourselves wondering whether a compassionate outlook can really be a driving force in our political, economic and social institutions.... Our generation also tends to be bombarded by the idea that the dominant human tendency is selfishness, driven by our genes' blind wish to survive and continue their existence into the next generation. And yet, evolutionary theories of the survival of the fittest are now challenged by scientists from all backgrounds. by Vinciane Rycroft http://j.mp/MQjPQU
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June 14, 2012 3:59 PM
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Want loyal, dedicated, and passionate employees? Be a loyal, dedicated, and passionate boss. Here are some tools to develop well-being in your workplace through better communication. When you use compassionate communication in your conversations, something quite surprising occurs: both your brain and the brain of the person you're talking to begin to align themselves with each other. This special bond is a phenomenon referred to as "neural resonance," and in this enhanced state of mutual attunement, two people can accomplish remarkable things together. Why? Because it eliminates the natural defensiveness that normally exists when people casually converse. from Words Can Change Your Brain by Andrew Newberg,M.D.
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June 13, 2012 8:46 PM
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"Without empathy we risk the breakdown of relationships, we become capable of hurting others, and we can cause conflict. With empathy we have a resource to resolve conflict, increase community cohesion, and dissolve another person’s pain. "
Simon Baron-Cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy.
more:
http://j.mp/K6sEKd
http://goo.gl/e188I
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Edwin Rutsch
June 13, 2012 4:20 PM
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Sympathy and empathy are all too often confused. Daniela Papi describes her trajectory from sympathetic volunteer to empathetic changemaker. That’s when we started to get serious about understanding how to facilitate long-term change. We started by asking more questions, and we did a lot more listening. We sat down with the school principal of the first school we had built. He told us the water filters had had a significant impact on attendance and health, and he wanted to know where he could buy more. ... By Daniela Papi
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Edwin Rutsch
June 6, 2012 11:08 AM
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National Peace Academy Workshop: Empathy, particularly for those who live in states that initiate war, often does not extend beyond their own national boundaries. Yet empathy, more than just a feeling, can be a powerfully positive force for change. This course will show how it draws upon and expands human interaction, making it accessible to anyone to cultivate in themselves. By contrast, when U.S. soldiers massacre villagers in Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans do not even know the names of the dead and their families. Dr. Kathleen Barry Author, Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves
Dates: July 20-22, 2012 (see details below)
Location: La Casa de Maria Retreat Center, Santa Barbara, CA
Conducted by: National Peace Academy in partnership with La Casa de Maria
Course Instructors: Dr. Kathleen Barry
Course fees: Residential fee: $350, includes shared lodging, meals and tuition; Commuter Fee: $250,
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Edwin Rutsch
June 13, 2012 2:41 PM
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15,000 years of experience tells humans that dogs ‘feel our pain.’ Now a new study suggests that the empathy is real. Researcher and psychologist Deborah Custance from the University of London published her study in the journal Animal Cognition. She and colleague Jennifer Mayer ran a test with 18 pet dogs, of differing breeds, with their owners — and then strangers — either talking, pretending to cry, or humming. This separated out the dog’s responses as emotional content from just curiosity. by Paul Canning
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Edwin Rutsch
June 13, 2012 12:00 AM
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Empatthy and Compassion Conference hits the 100 interviews & panel discussions, 100 hours milestone.
Edwin Rutsch and the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy hits 100 interviews and panel discussion about how to build a culture of empathy!!! There are over 100 hours of empathy and compassion experts from around the world talking about how we can build a movement to transform the world culture. This is only the being. See the list at:
http://CultureOfEmpathy.com
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Edwin Rutsch
June 12, 2012 6:19 PM
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Susan Partnow is an organizational development and training consultant and teaches Compassionate Listening and many other empathy and compassion building processes Contributor to the book: Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening How to Build a Culture of Empathy & Compassion?
1. Set the Intention (value it; talk about it; name and invite it).
2. Slow down to the speed of wisdom to make space for it.
3. From the Inside Out: Cultivate self awareness and regulation - know your triggers; do the practice with compassion & BE Compassion.
4. Build community from these principles - to embrace conflict, differences, challenges as opportunities to deepen intimacy, understanding, connection - and find creative solutions like Restorative Circles.
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June 12, 2012 6:19 PM
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Erika Rosenberg offers scientifically- and practically-based training and consultation in a wide range of areas associated with the study and/or understanding of human emotion, facial expressions of emotion, and the improvement of emotional functioning through meditation. Erika has been practicing meditation for over 20 years. She is a senior teacher for Project Compassion at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University where she teaches the 9-week Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT). The training combines science, mindfulness and Compassionate Communications traditions.
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June 12, 2012 6:18 PM
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Keiko Krahnke is Associate Professor of Management; Business Communications at University of Northern Colorado in the Montfort College of Business. Areas of research interests include spirituality and business, systems thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, and corporate citizenship. Currently interested in learning about human consciousness and teaching empathy and compassion. She says, Empathy is wholeness and knowing that we are all part of one field and are interconnected. The opposite of Empathy is being trapped in narcissism.
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June 12, 2012 6:16 PM
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Art Markman, PhD is a cognitive scientist at the University of Texas. He writes blog entries for Psychology Today, Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, and YouBeauty.com. Author, Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done
"Why Empathy Makes You More Helpful. There is a lot of research suggesting that empathy increases people’s desire to help others. Empathy is the ability to share other people’s emotion. The better able you are to feel what someone else is feeling, the more likely you are to want to help them when they are in a difficult situation. This ability also extends to animals. We are able to project feelings onto animals like dogs, and that increases our need to help them. But, what is it about empathy that promotes the need to help?"
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