International Parent Educator, Deena Stacer, PhD teaches parents who are in conflict over child sharing and custody about the 8 steps of empathy that are required to help children experience nurturing and comfort when parents are at war with each other.
The Science of a Meaningful Life: Self-Compassion and Emotional Resilience
March 23, 2012, 9 am-4:30 pm International House, UC Berkeley Campus
This day-long seminar and live webcast will offer strategies for cultivating self-compassion and reducing stress, led by Dr. Kristin Neff.
Self-compassion is a skill that can be learned by anyone. It involves generating feelings of kindness and care toward ourselves as imperfect human beings, and learning to be present with greater ease during life’s inevitable struggles. It is an antidote to harsh self-criticism, making us feel connected to others when we suffer, rather than feeling isolated and alienated. Unlike self-esteem, the good feelings of self-compassion do not depend on being special and better than other people; instead, they come from caring about ourselves and embracing our commonalities.
This event will be webcast live! Attend in-person or online.
This ten-week course will articulate studies and theories in developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience on the domain social emotions and moral reasoning:
How infants evaluate social interactions Moral emotions Empathy and prosocial behavior Executive functions, self regulation Moral development Brain circuits associated with moral reasoning
The Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education is launching a new teacher certification program. I am co-running this program, and will be co-teaching the core classes as well as retreats. Below is all the info! Note that the early application deadline is 2/15, and the regular admissions deadline is 3/15.
BASICS
CCARE’s Compassion Training Teacher Certification program is a part-time, 12-month training for professionals who want to deepen their ability to share the science, philosophy, and pedagogy of compassion. Graduates, who fulfill all program requirements, including a period of supervised teaching, will be certified to teach CCARE’s Compassion Training Course. The Compassion Training Course is 9-week program developed by a team of psychologists, scientists, and contemplative scholars at Stanford University.
As educators, how do we overcome compassion-fatigue? Is it our daily experience that empathy and compassion leads to increased well-being? What prevents us from experiencing empathy, and acting out of compassion? Do we still believe that empathy and compassion bring about positive social change? How we answer these questions has a key impact on our day-to-day teaching, the learning of our students, and the harmony of our school communities. We need a chance as educators to clarify for ourselves how we resolve the challenges of empathy and compassion. Until we do so, we will find it difficult to teach these skills to others.
An elementary school program that helps youngsters experience what it’s like to have a disability got some help recently from Naval Base Ventura County.,,
Anything we can do to teach children to be more aware of what less-able kids go through is important,” said Dave Castellano, the school psychologist at Parkview Elementary.
Just like charity, empathy also begins at home. The ability to convey empathy can be seen in children as young as two years of age. When toddlers wipe the tears off a crying playmate, this is very much an act of empathy. In other instances children who witness playmates getting hurt may run to their mother seeking comfort as if they experienced the hurt themselves. You may also see little ones cry along with or pat or hug the other hurting child. Most of what we learn about empathy towards others is what we have received from adults as we were growing up or from our own experiences of negative circumstances and negative feelings.
Many family experts would argue that this situation is a prime opportunity for option D—to teach both children empathy, a skill that is critical to sound moral and emotional development. Empathy is the ability to understand the feelings of others and, at least to some degree, feel what they feel and respond in helpful ways.
“Empathy is one of the foundational moral emotions,” says Laura Padilla Walker, assistant professor in the School of Family Life. “It is linked to moral action. It’s a feeling that compels people to act compassionately while reasoning alone might not.”
Children who don’t develop empathy can become callous adults, oblivious to the hurt and pain they leave in their wake.
Anger management classes help students develop a number of steps to finding the proper techniques and strategies to counter their anger problems. Many people want to know what those skills and strategies are without having to take the classes. They want a small example of what they might learn and how it would affect their life.
To satisfy that hunger for information, here is a small idea of what you can expect to learn. One of the most important aspects is that anger management classes teach empathy, among many others skills necessary for effective anger management..
The stories our children read help them learn how to feel, and through the eventual resolution of the plot, they learn how to better understand and deal with their own emotions....
Interestingly, a 2010 University of Michigan study found a sharp decline in the empathy levels of college students over the last thirty years. This comes during a period in which fiction reading has been on a similar decline. Which begs the question of how closely the two are related.
The ability to understand not only one’s own emotions, but the emotions of others is a critical life skill. And it appears that for anyone with a child in their life, the easiest way to help them develop empathy is to give them a great book.
I’m happy to have Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W., a Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychotherapist specializing in eating issues, and author of The Self-Compassion Diet: A Step-by-Step Program to Lose Weight with Loving-Kindness back as my guest. Today she shares how to give yourself more compassion, which a lovely gift of self-love.
Here’s what she has to say:
The practice of self-compassion – treating yourself like a good friend or loved one – may be centuries-old news, but suddenly it’s new again. For the last year, not only has self-compassion been making headline news, including the #1 most emailed NY Times article last winter, it’s the topic of an increasing number of popular books.
Education experts from Learning Care Group and Sprout have teamed to find ways to engage children in opportunities to develop an understanding of empathy -- through teachable moments, by acknowledging children's good deeds and in other ways. Each school has pledged to contribute a certain number of kind acts -- collectively, as well as individually. These can include something as simple as giving a hug, getting a towel to help clean up a spill or sharing a box of crayons with a friend. Kind acts are being tracked and highlighted with Kindness Meters at each school, where children can see how each individual action adds up to a kinder school overall.
Sprout launched its Kindness Counts campaign in August 2011 and hopes to ultimately record one million acts of kindness from families across the country.
We know that poverty, poor health, lack of education, and abuse of alcohol and drugs often contribute to the environment in which children are abused. Studies also document that an abused child is at risk of becoming an abusive adult.
Recent research defines a biological basis for cruel as well as kind behavior.
"The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty" by Simon Baron-Cohen provides a useful summary of these discoveries. The British author is a distinguished researcher in psychopathology. He defines empathy as the ability to recognize the need of another and to respond to that need. Cruelty, the author contends, springs from the absence of empathy.
Teaching empathy requires you to keep a few particular things in mind when working with children. Teach empathy to children with special needs with help from the author of an award-winning parenting book series in this free video clip.
Harvard Medical School's Department of Continuing Education offers complete CME course listings and online registration. The objective of this course is to explore how principles and practices of meditation, especially acceptance and compassion, can be integrated into patient care and support the therapist's own wellbeing.
As a result of attending this course, you will be able to: define compassion as a psychological skill; identify conditions to support or hinder compassion in psychotherapy; describe the neurobiological processes of awareness and acceptance; trace the historical roots of compassion mind training; cultivate a compassionate response to suffering; and implement self-compassion as an antidote to compassion fatigue.
The experience of empathy is a powerful interpersonal phenomenon and a necessary means of everyday social communication. It facilitates parental care of offspring. It enables us to live in groups and socialize. It paves the way for the development of moral reasoning and motivates prosocial behavior. Empathy is an essential cornerstone of the patient-doctor relationship. It is associated with better outcomes and fewer malpractice claims. For a very long time, empathy has been a focus of speculation in philosophy. But in the past decade, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study, which includes developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, social psychology, and affective social neuroscience
Today, UAS is launching its Bachelors of Science Degree Program in Empathic Studies.
This Bachelors Degree Program is based on straightforward, honest explanations of psychical empathy through new research initiatives in parapsychology, psychology, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and related subjects. Whether the prospective student is an intelligent layperson or professional curious about psychical empathy, or looking to discover how to utilize psychical empathy, our degree program will provide a detailed framework, without complicated equations, onto which more advanced concepts can be applied
“When players compete against each other in a game, they try to make a mental model of the other person’s intentions, what they’re going to do and how they’re going to play, so they can play strategically against them,” explains lead author Kyle Mathewson.
This “mental model” of other people’s thoughts and feelings, also known as theory of mind, is crucial for the development of empathy, perspective-taking, and social reciprocity—all the skills that allow us to get along productively with others.
Stanford Compassion Training (SCT) is an eight-week course (plus one week orientation session) designed to develop the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness for oneself and for others. SCT integrates traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research on compassion. The program was developed at Stanford University by a team of contemplative scholars, clinical psychologists, and researchers.
SCT is designed to support anyone who wants to cultivate compassion for themselves and for others. This includes parents, caregivers, educators, healthcare professionals, therapists, executives, public servants, and people in a wide range of professions and life contexts. No previous meditation experience is required, although willingness to practice daily meditation is a key component of the training.
Nothing gets me — I mean kids — more excited than hands-on programs that allow them to take part in storytelling, art projects, and creative movement. When you combine that kind of creativity with animal advocacy and humane education, you have a whole new budding generation of compassionate children. Public Eye: Artists for Animals, the Philadelphia-based group that last made Our Hen House news when they were organizing vegan holiday cooking classes for kids, is once again wowing us with their strong commitment to using the arts to promote a cruelty-free lifestyle.
Anger management classes help students develop a number of steps to finding the proper techniques and strategies to counter their anger problems. Many people want to know what those skills and strategies are without having to take the classes. They want a small example of what they might learn and how it would affect their life.
To satisfy that hunger for information, here is a small idea of what you can expect to learn. One of the most important aspects is that anger management classes teach empathy, among many others skills necessary for effective anger management.'
How to Recognize Triggers
This is one of the vital tools that anger management classes can teach. Knowing what triggers anger is vital. Once that it is known, the student can learn how to get around those triggers and how to deal with them if the worst happens.
Empathic listening (also called active listening or reflective listening) is a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding and trust. It is an essential skill for third parties and disputants alike, as it enables the listener to receive and accurately interpret the speaker's message, and then provide an appropriate response. The response is an integral part of the listening process and can be critical to the success of a negotiation or mediation. Among its benefits, empathic listening..
1. builds trust and respect, 2. enables the disputants to release their emotions, 3. reduces tensions, 4. encourages the surfacing of information, and 5. creates a safe environment that is conducive to 6. collaborative problem solving.
Building an anti-bully, on the other hand, means fostering empathy and compassion among young children, to also increase the likelihood they stand up to bullies or stand up for those who are being bullied.
Empathetic kids are able to take the perspective of someone else, even a stranger. Children who lack empathy can turn into hardened, apathetic adults. A 1999 study by Daniel Nagin and Richard Tremblay published for the Society for Research in Child Development found that "aggression in the school environment can inhibit learning and create interpersonal problems for children. Moreover, a high level of childhood aggression is problematic in the long term, as it is a significant predictor of adult criminal behavior and other anti-social behaviors." We see them as kids and adults all around us. They don't care about others, only themselves. When they encounter someone in need, they look away.
CCARE’s Compassion Training Teacher Certification program is a part-time, 12-month training for professionals who want to deepen their ability to share the science, philosophy, and pedagogy of compassion. Graduates, who fulfill all program requirements, including a period of supervised teaching, will be certified to teach CCARE’s Compassion Training Course. The Compassion Training Course is 9-week program developed by a team of psychologists, scientists, and contemplative scholars at Stanford University.
It is not a surprise that we have heard much stirring in the last several years about the importance of empathy and its role in everything from attachment, to neural development, to world positivity. There is an empathy shortage in the world, and we are seeing the far-reaching effects.
Bullying. Violence. Insensitivity. Selfishness. In practice, we often see the damage done with children who are traumatized because of early life experiences characterized by a lack of empathy. Abuse, neglect, emotional bankruptcy, painful attachments and a violation of trust all contribute to a child’s ability or disruption in naturally cultivating this inherent trait.
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