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Oxytocin has been the subject of so many recent, intriguing findings that I just had to make it into a necklace! It is released in intimate moments to aid bonding, like being with a romantic partner, hugging our kids, or petting a furry pet-friend. It makes us feel like cuddling. It is also linked to empathy, helping us trust and understand the feelings of others. 
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What does empathy have to do with dance creation and creative process? Well, everything. Everything that is if you work with living, breathing individuals and not animated figures on a computer.
Empathetic response in dance – the feeling in, of, and for movement – is arguably what most differentiates dancing from other skilled physical activities, like sports. Furthermore, the varieties of empathetic response in dance are arguably what distinguish dance from other performing arts.
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What makes a good documentary? Why do we need empathy in good storytelling? What is empathy?
Moderator: LG Taylor
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In this video, Jonathan describes his belief that films are often educational and political — and because they encourage the viewer to empathize with the film's subject, they are often inherently progressive.
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I believe there is a correlation between good improvisers and empathetic people. I have little evidence, but I have a theory. Here goes.
Empathy, the ability to recognize and share feelings that someone else is experiencing, is in and of itself, connecting. It’s the ability to connect to another human being on an emotional level. To feel compassion. It’s what makes you cry at the movies, or while reading your favorite chapter of your favorite book. It’s the reason we have soft shoulders to cry on, why we like playing video games, and why we enjoy watching two happy people in love kiss. Improvisation also happens to be, all about connecting. Connecting to your fellow players, to the audience, and to your character(s). img http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting
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Oh, the comfort
The inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, Having neither to weigh thoughts, Nor measure words - but pouring them All right out -just as they are Chaff and grain together Certain that a faithful hand will Take and sift them Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness Blow the rest away. - Dinah Craik
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When we talk with audiences of all ages about what it means to be humane, one of the most frequent words people mention is "compassion." Compassion for ourselves, for other people, for animals, and for the planet we all inhabit. Recently I discovered a creative and inspiring project -- great for schools and other educational organizations to customize and replicate -- combining art and an exploration of compassion.
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Metaphor with Time and people that feel they are alone, when really they have each other and can go through things together, even the bad times.
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A film for Arts|Learning, Inc. by Derek LeDoux. Sponsored in part by the Kennedy Center. An in-depth look with Thalia Goldstein.
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Beyond Empathy (BE) is a non-profit community arts organisation set up in 2004 in the belief that arts and arts practice can improve lives and influence social change.
BE's work is driven by a commitment to the use of community cultural development practices combined with the creation of innovative art works made with community. A tension is created through integrating these two approaches and it defines BE as an organization.
Edwin Rutsch's comment,
June 25, 2011 1:35 PM
thanks Gillian, I added a post to your site here. Perhaps you could do some art activities more explicitly around the theme of empathy and we could post them here. Edwin
Edwin Rutsch's comment,
June 25, 2011 1:37 PM
also Gillian, would you be interested joining and in putting together some empathy art activities for our empathy curriculum project? Free Online Empathy Curriculum Project http://bit.ly/kwZ1Go
's comment June 27, 2011 1:19 PM
Hello Edwin,
<br/> <br/>I would be happy to image pictures and write on empathy as part of a larger process. Let me explain an idea for consideration: I can offer a videocam skype session (m.gillian.vellet) which becomes an experiential resource for interested individuals/groups to explore “empathy” in artworks over 4 sessions as a creative community cultural learning process. This self-in-relationship approach will provide me with tangible human/spiritual material, stories, contexts and shared dialogue to use in my writing on your network's real experience of empathic “discourse with others”. <br/> <br/>I will wait to hear what you think of this idea. <br/> <br/> <br/>Namaste, Gillian.
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Since returning from overseas, I have been obsessively scanning through endless resources searching for anything to do with empathy.
DH: You recently returned from international travel and started a collaborative project, S.E.R.I., with concepts like the Empathy Virus. Can you explain where this idea came from? CS: The Empathy Virus was another idea I caught while on the Splendid Arts Lab. We were likening art to a positive virus; a virus that, if realized at the right time in the correct place, could have spread out of humanity like an exponential wave promoting perspective and understanding.
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It is essential that animators as well as stage actors understand the fundamental distinction between “empathy” and “sympathy”. The goal for an actor or animator is to create a sense of empathy for his character. Part of the problem is that, for many early years in the entertainment industry, the word “empathy” did not even exist. Even a genius like Charlie Chaplin talked about “sympathy” when what he meant was “empathy” — there was simply not a word for it until the 1920′s.
If you set out to create sympathy for your character, you are on a risky path. As you will read in the following notes, it is okay for an audience to feel sympathy for a character — but not exclusively and not for long. If you do not generate empathy, you will lose your audience. Guaranteed, take it to the bank.
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Most manhole covers aren't much to look at. But Appleton's public works department just installed a dozen new ones meant to inspire people.
“What we did is we made artistic, one-of-a-kind, custom manhole covers,” said Lawrence University Art Professor Rob Nielson. Influenced by the city's Compassion Project, Nielson came up with the idea for his art class. “I gave the prompt to my sculpture students: depict some aspect of compassion,” said Nielson. One cover depicts an elephant befriending a mouse. Another, a hand holding out a kidney.
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The application of the empathy principle gets more interesting in the essays about the improv games Glouberman teaches. Pieces like “How to Teach Charades” and “The Gibberish Game” describe exercises that are practice sessions in stepping outside of your own mind. In the Conducting Game, for example, you walk around a room with a bunch of people, making noises...
If empathy is the ability to vicariously understand another person’s mindset, its opposite is narcissism: the inability to do so. And narcissism abounds. In a recent article in The Atlantic, Lori Gottlieb charges that upper-middle-class American twenty-somethings are more apt to be insecure (and thus seek out therapy) than ever before.
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Panel: “The Art and Science of Empathy” - The name of this salon discussion sounded almost like something one might find in a college lecture series, both intriguing and boring.
Panelists and documentary filmmakers Philip Montgomery and Chandler Griffin, joined neuroscientist Dr. Jonas Kaplan and moderated by the Festival’s own Urs Baur. Yes, it was intriguing and boring. As part of the exploration of neuroscience in filmmaking and film viewing, a definition of empathy in scientific terms, was addressed but it proved inadequate and illusive in a creative, emotional context.
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“Compassion, is the whole of Christianity,”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky in a sketch for The Idiot, one of his four great novels. That was when he was starting the novel. When he was finishing it, he wrote: “Compassion is the most important and possibly the only law for the whole of human life.” To convey that central idea of the novel, he created one of the enduring characters in all literature, the “idiot” of the story, Prince Myshkin, whom Dostoyevsky modeled after Christ.
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In sculptor Claus Heinecke's words: "Two interlocking cylinders echoing each other in size and shape seems an apt metaphor for the idea of empathy, a quality to be fostered by society for the sake of peace and harmony".
"Empathy", that most human of characteristics, is quality to be fostered by society for the sake of peace and harmony. It is about walking in another's shoes, it is the root behind "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"; an important sentiment in any age but especially importance in a time when the survival of humanity is not at all assured.
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In May, Art Teacher, Michael Di Nucci, organized his Art 8A class into four groups to design several words, Empathy, Caring, Kindness, and Community. Each group chose one word and every student in a group designed a letter. Students followed a series of parameters to design and paint various panels.
As a result, they developed collaborative murals depicting Empathy, Caring, Kindness, and Community. The work is now a permanent display in the main lobby at Grand Avenue to visually remind students about RICE and being empathic in school and throughout their lives.
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It is important to note that the Art therapist does not interpret but rather, supports and encourages the client's creative process of exploration. This is a shared, verbal dialogue which links creativity, empathy, and affectivity together. As a result, there is a strengthening of the real experience of being connected, listened to, and understood.
Sharing meaningful exchanges without criticism or judgment builds respect, trust, and emotional safety. When creativity links with empathy (compassionate capacity to feel other's experience) and affectivity (capacity to give and receive love), you strengthen a sense of belonging in the world, which is the real experience of connectivity.
Edwin Rutsch's comment,
June 28, 2011 4:24 PM
Gillian, please do let me know if you have more art related to empathy. would also like to add any empathy and art activities, if you have them, to our Free Online Empathy Curriculum Project http://cultureofempathy.com/Projects/Curriculum/Index.htm
's comment June 28, 2011 6:04 PM
Edwin,
<br/>Did you see my thanks to you for selecting image and text from my website archive? Also I have added my name to your list of online empathy curriculum project with an idea for your consideration. <br/> <br/>The idea is: I can offer a videocam skype session (m.gillian.vellet) which becomes an experiential resource for interested individuals/groups to explore "empathy" in artworks over 4 sessions as a creative community cultural learning process. This self-in-relationship approach will provide me with tangible material, stories, contexts, and shared dialogue to use in my writing on the experience of empathic "discourse with others". <br/> <br/>The shared story and context of my female client's history relative to the empathy image you selected becomes an example of how I could work with you and your curriculum project in a meaningful way. An image resonates when it has a context and story that in art therapy usually unfolds over time; not in just one session; it is the nature of the creative process as you well know. <br/> <br/>I will wait to hear what you think of this idea. <br/> <br/>I have more empathy images in other files which I will need to put on the computer and send you. Would it be possible to have your email address so I can communicate questions and details more directly? My email is: gillian.vellet@gmail.com <br/> <br/>I am in the process of moving so will be able to address this after July 4. <br/> <br/>Namaste, Gillian. <br/>
Edwin Rutsch's comment,
July 4, 2011 11:39 PM
let's talk more in the linkedin empathy curriculum group.
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People who 'own' their creativity are possibility thinkers. They have the courage it takes to act on ideas and think differently. Radical creativity is about joining hands and hearts with creators worldwide and fashioning a sustainable world where both creativity and empathy are seen as keys to a peaceful and flourishing planet. Are you ready to get involved?
Empathy-building creativity in action can be witnessed June 17-19, 2011, from 4th Street to 7th Street of the National Mall in Washington DC (across from the U.S. Capital), the site of the 4th World Children’s Festival... This event is designed to, “…nurture children’s creativity and develop their empathy in a global setting…T
's comment June 14, 2011 1:31 AM
love this! we truly could have a better world. let the children create beauty and understanding, and lead us!
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Pedestrians in downtown Appleton need look no further than the sidewalk to find examples of compassion these days. A dozen, newly cast, custom-made manhole covers that feature designs depicting some aspect of compassion are adding a bit of humanity to the otherwise lifeless sidewalks running up and down College Ave...
The manhole cover assignment was inspired by the community-wide Compassion Project, in which 10,000 Appleton school children used 6-by-6-inches ceramic tiles to create drawings and paintings of what compassion means to them.
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