This one-day workshop is designed for healthcare practitioners, clinical educators, educational supervisors and training leads.

An increasing amount of evidence shows that empathy improves patient outcomes (including patient satisfaction) and practitioner well-being. With a keynote on the latest evidence around empathic healthcare, group work, and patient stories, this workshop will cover the theory and practice of empathy in healthcare and facilitate the development of evidence-based ‘empathy habits’ to enhance empathy in clinical practice and organisations.

This workshop will be facilitated by Dr Andy Ward, Director of Education and Training for the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare.

Join Paragon's Director of Leadership Development, Heidi Bedier, as she discusses how leading with empathy and kindness can create a more productive, inclusive and innovative culture. 

 Participants will:
Learn what empathy is and the role it plays at work 
The impact empathy can have on others
What can get in the way of our ability to lead with empathy 
How to strengthen empathetic behaviors 

Course Timeline & Details

• Online Orientation
• Small Group Meetings
• Building Compassion from the Inside Out
• Compassion in Society
• Deepening Compassion Practice
• Science for Teaching CCT
• Practice Teaching Online Intensive
• Conceptual Clarity in the Classroom
• Cohort Closing Session
• Group Facilitation in a CCT Class
• CCT Teaching Practicum

Creating and sustaining productive, trusting relationships is key to success in life and work. This workshop will boost your capacity to cultivate positive relationships through mindful empathy. Mindfulness is the skill of becoming more fully present in each moment. Empathy is the skill of understanding the emotions, circumstances, thoughts, intentions, and needs of people around you.

The practice of mindful empathy fosters effective collaboration, authentic communication, and interpersonally astute decision-making. It is crucial for any relationship or leadership role where trust and communication strongly determine productivity and satisfaction. This workshop will help you develop mindful empathy through experiential practices. It begins with mindfulness exercises to become grounded, calm, and aware of your own thoughts, emotions, and sensations.

A self-empathy activity will help students develop clarity around their own needs and goals. Following these, we will dive into practices for building empathy and compassion for others. Finally, we will look at negotiation and co-creation to meet each other’s needs while remaining centered and authentic to ourselves. Students will leave with a set of practices that can be incorporated in daily life. These new skills will empower you to manage yourself and engage with others more fully. Making others feel understood can inspire them to respond with enthusiasm, promoting a virtuous cycle of reciprocity.

"Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explorereal-world problems and challenges. With this type of active and engaged learning, students are inspired to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying" (Edutopia). PBL teaches students essential skills such as communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. 

This project site and PBL project will help students take a deep look at empathy.

• What does it mean?
• How do we empathize?

The answers to those questions will be used to develop strategies and ideas about how to use empathy to solve problems in a classroom and school. The students will end the project with a PSA highlighting their findings and possible ideas on how to use empathy to solve conflicts.  They will be encouraged to share their PSA with their school community. 

Section 1: Introducing empathy and the cards.

• Lecture 1 Introduction 
• Lecture 2  Making the most of 'udemy'. 
• Lecture 3  What are these empathy cards? 
• Lecture 4 What is empathy? 
• Lecture 5 Empathy Exercise 

Section 2: The NVC Dance Floor and its philosophical underpinnings

• Lecture 6 What is the NVC Dance Floor? 
• Lecture 7 The time and place for JACKEL 
• Lecture 8 Learning how to NOTICE - basic mindfulness. 
• Lecture 9 Differentiating FEELINGS from thoughts, judgments, assumption and assessments. 
• Lecture 10 Differentiating NEEDS from strategies and demands. 
• Lecture 11 Making clear, present, doable REQUESTS of self and others.

Section 3: Using the Cards

• Lecture 12 Using the Cards for Self Empathy Check In - Lecture 
• Lectue 13 What are you feeling and/or needing right now?! 
• Lecture 14 Using the cards to gain empathy for another. 
• Lecture 15 Using the cards for sneaky self empathy... 
• Lecture 16 A quick example of using the Tiger's NVC Kids Cards with my daughter.
• Lecture 17 How to debrief yucky stuff with your children or anyone else you care about! 
• Lecture 18 Using the Cards to 'check in' - Interview Demonstration 
• Lecture 19 Using the cards in a therapeutic or pastoral context. 
• Lecture 20 Demonstration of using the cards in a therapeutic context.

Section 4: Finishing Up

• Lecture 21 Fully expressing gratitude. 
• Lecture 22 Thanks and Farewell 
• Lecture 23 Bonus! Coupons for my other courses!
• Lecture 24 Links to other resources, courses, practice groups and websites.

Join our three-day course at the University of Leicester to master empathy teaching in healthcare. Boost patient care, overcome barriers, and lead with compassion.

Who is the course for?

This course is for educators, trainers, clinicians, and others involved in healthcare teaching or supervision. It is particularly relevant for those designing or delivering curricula in medical, nursing, or allied health education.

By the end of this course, participants will:

• Comprehend different approaches to teaching empathy
• Deliver confident and effective instruction on elements of empathy teaching
• Grasp the variety of methods and assessment approaches needed for empathy education
• Provide instruction on empathy topics
• Recognise the essential elements of a successful empathy teaching

When: 22-24 April 2024
Where: College Court Conference Centre, Knighton Road, Leicester, LE2 3UF

Who is the course for: Leaders in healthcare education with an interest in developing, improving and delivering empathy-focussed training in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.

This innovative and pioneering training course provides clinicians, educators and academics with the skills needed to effectively teach empathy to healthcare students and practitioners. In addition, attendees will learn to support others to recognise the barriers and challenges to embedding empathy across the systems they work in, and to develop effective strategies for overcoming them.

Aims of the course

• Explore different educational models for teaching empathy.
• Identify and discuss issues of pedagogy, curriculum design, development and evaluation. 
• Enable the embedding of empathic healthcare education within your institution.
• Extend and advance participants’ existing critical appraisal and teaching skills.
• Develop understanding of the components of an effective curriculum for empathic

• practice.

Empathy Education Workshop Series in Theory, Practice, and Policy

Tuesday, May 4 | 
Workshop 1 – Empathy Education Theory: Intersectional Approaches
This workshop explores how intersectional approaches can be applied in the context of youth empathy education, including issues of equity and social justice in relation to race, gender, sexuality, disability, and decolonization.

We will also focus on the interplay between dialogue and discourse as tools for empathy and compassion. Finally, building on the work of Patricia Hill Collins, we will discuss the factors of “Intersectionality as a Metaphor Heuristic and a Paradigm” as it connects to empathy education.

Tuesday, May 11 |
Workshop 2 – Empathy Education Practice: Arts-Based Education
In this second workshop, we will discuss the role of the arts, music, literature, and sound technology as part of an empathy education curriculum.

Also in the discussion will be a focus on the role of non-formal education as a community development model. Finally, using a model of Bridging Worlds as part of an empathy education curriculum, we will look at how empathy education can be reciprocally support in the classroom and community.

"In the last few years, I’ve been exploring the use of Empathy Circles with some of my organizational clients, with facilitator learning groups, and in communication workshops. I’ve been finding that it is a great introduction and warm-up for Dynamic Facilitation, one of my core practices, as it offers everyone in the room the opportunity to engage in offering listening reflections to one another.

At the same time, I’m totally excited to see that Edwin Rutsch, the creator of Empathy Circles, has been bringing his work into the arena healing political divides. My experience is that this simple-yet-powerful form is actually quite revolutionary, in the best sense of the word, and so I want to delve a bit into what I see as the underlying dynamics. But first, a brief description, followed by a distinction and clarification…"

How the Practice of Empathy Enriches Your Relationship with Your Partner

Curriculum

Section 1: Introduction to the Purpose, Aim, and Structure of this Course

• Lecture 1 Introduction to the Purpose, Aim, and Structure of this Course

Section 2: What is Empathy?

• Lecture 2 What is Empathy?
• Lecture 3 What is a Feeling?
• Lecture 4 The Three Habits of Empathy

Section 3: Empathy as Feeling-into

• Lecture 5 Empathy as Feeling-into
• Lecture 6 Projective Empathy: Romanticism, Aestheticism, and Psychology
• Lecture 7 Empathy for Objects?

Section 4: Empathy as Feeling-with

• Lecture 8 Empathy as Feeling-with
• Lecture 9 Empathy as Feeling-into and Feeling-with
• Lecture 10 Instantaneous vs. Process Empathy

Section 5: Empathy as Feeling-for

• Lecture 11 Empathy as Feeling-for
• Lecture 12 Empathy, Sympathy, and Compassion
• Lecture 13 The Three Habits Revisited
• Lecture 14 Empathy Practice for Thirty Days

Section 6: Part Two: Empathy and the Seven Dynamics of Flourishing Relationships

• Lecture 16 Mindfulness
• Lecture 17 Observation
• Lecture 18 Conversation
• Lecture 19 Listening
• Lecture 20 Sharing
• Lecture 21 Creativity and Empathy
• Lecture 22 Exercises for Your Relationship with Your Partner

Education Transformations, located in San Diego, California, is a dynamic, leading edge nonprofit company with the vision of transforming our children’s learning environments by providing teachers and students with skills

Here are the various workshops and customized programs we offer. We can meet your teaching needs in many ways.

• K-12 Relational Competency Student Curriculum
- Social/Emotional Intelligence and Character Development for the Common Core Student

•Cultivating a Person Centered Approach (PCA) in the Classroom   (formerly “A Taste of Transformation!”)
- a Person Centered Communications Model for Student Involvement

• Mastering Relationships & Restorative Practices in the Classroom
- a Comprehensive ‘Person Centered Approach’ to Learning and Classroom Management
• The Powerful Classroom
- Advanced Workshop

• Summer Week-long Intensive Workshops:
- The Diverse Classroom
– Power Plays

• Customized School Programs
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring

Read more about each below, and click on the links to register or get complete details about each offering…

The Association For

1. Empathy Trainers who have similar and common interests, activities and concerns about teaching empathy.
2. Mutual promotion of the welfare of all it’s members.
3. Protect and advance mutual interests.
4. Set and maintain standards.
5. Promote social, advertising and political action to get communities, organizations, businesses and government to support empathy training programs.
6. etc

Benefits for Members

• Access to training curriculum from other members.
• Share training materials and resources.
• A directory of empathy trainers that prospective clients can access. For Clients - If you're looking for a trainer you have a place to go 
• Offer business support and leads to members. 
• Discussion forums listservs.
• etc

Google Group for Email Discussions 
An ongoing discussion list. 

Facebook Event
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Facebook Group 
Group to for  discussions on Facebook

Shared Google Doc
For shared working space.