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Claire Castella: Empathetic awareness is a form of emotional intelligence that is shown by the ability to respond sensitively toward another person. Between the ages of 2 and 3 years, children begin to understand that others have needs, feelings and desires that are separate from their own. Instinctual responses that are driven by toddlers' own needs, feelings and desires are gradually accompanied by more altruistic responses and sympathy toward others. 
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"Changemakers have four fundamental traits that cannot be understated: empathy, teamwork, leadership, and change-making. We are reaching the transition point very quickly, and parts of the world that do not master these traits will be left in terrible shape."
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A faithful supporter recently sent me an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which the writer asks the question: should empathy be taught to college students? The author, Richard Kahlenberg, asks: "In higher education, should colleges affirmatively seek to teach students empathy or is doing so inappropriate because it is unrelated to academic achievement and might be overtly political?"
First, I have to say I see nothing political about empathy. One would hope that politicians of every persuasion would see the pro-social value of empathy in our society.
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Parenting & Empathy. A newborn child expresses his needs, letting his parents know what he is feeling. Parents who are emotionally in tune with their child meet his physical and emotional needs, teachi...
Empathy-Building Activities Teach your younger child about empathy by reading books in which characters show empathy. Discuss the stories with your child. Your older child can learn about empathy through poetry -- encourage him to write down his feelings or those feelings he believes others might be feeling. He also might be interested in drama and taking roles in which others have experienced difficult situations.
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Empathy is one of the most important skills to learn in today's business world. Although it has its origins in the caring professions as a "soft" skill, empathy is now accepted as a vital people management tool, whether this is managing staff needs, customer issues, or people's personal problems.
1. What is "Empathy"?
Psychoanalyst Carl Rogers has described empathy in different ways as:
· "...entering the private perceptual world of the other and becoming thoroughly at home in it."
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One of the reasons the toddler brain can’t wrap itself around our adult concept of sharing is that it’s difficult to see things from another person’s perspective. That’s the crux of empathy — one of our most complex and sophisticated human cognitive skills and something that takes the bulk of childhood, and maybe even part of young adulthood, to master.
So instead of harping on sharing, I’ve put my energy towards helping my little guy flex those empathy muscles and develop an awareness of his own feelings and how he impacts other people.
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Deep Listening To really listen to others, say David Rome and Hope Martin, we must first learn to listen to ourselves. They teach us three techniques for tuning in to body, speech, and mind.
Unsatisfying communication is rampant in our society: in relationships between spouses, parents, and children, among neighbors and co-workers, in civic and political life, and between nations, religions, and ethnicities. Can we change such deeply ingrained cultural patterns? Is it possible to bring about a shift in the modes of communication that dominate our society? Contemplative practices, with their committed cultivation of self-awareness and compassion, may offer the best hope for transforming these dysfunctional and damaging social habits.
- Mindfulness: Awareness Meditation - The Alexander Technique - Focusing
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These practical, evidence-based tips for teaching empathy are based on discoveries in psychology and neuroscience.
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Teaching empathy to children is an important part of their social and emotional development, because they will learn to consider other people's feelings instead of just their own.
Having empathy means children can see the world from other people's perspectives and avoid growing up to be selfish and inconsiderate. The playground is a good place to start teaching children empathy, because that is where they interact with others. 1. Encourage your child to find common ground with other Read more: How to Teach Empathy on the Playground 2. Observe other people's behaviour at the playground ...
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Capital University’s non-credit Empathy Experiment immerses students in the plight of the working poor to promote understanding. The banner on the side of the Capital University music conservatory has an outline of a sneaker and asks, “They walked a mile in someone else’s shoes. How much did they learn?” Inside the hall in Columbus, Ohio, a few hundred people wait to find out. They are here this evening late in April for the concluding event of the Empathy Experiment — an experiment not in an empirical sense, but in teaching empathy.
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What Can You Do: Nurturing Empathy in Your Toddler
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Empathy is the ability to understand others to the point that you can experience their emotions and internal drives. Most of us are good at being empathetic with those we love, but increasing your empathy beyond your social group takes practice.
1. Understand your own emotions. 2. Interact with a wide range of people. 3. Seek out similarities between you and others. Practice taking on another's perspective 4. Examine the lives and work of famous empathetic people. 5. Read good fiction. 6. Foster empathy in your children
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The activities below, recommended by Cotton, can be developed using Exquisite Learning. An example of an Exquisite Learning activity is included in brackets:
* Activities that focus initially on one's own feelings as a point of departure for relating to the feelings of others. [Learners can write reflection pieces and create accompanying art reflection pieces. These pieces can then be shared with another classmate as a point for discussion.] * Role-taking/role-playing activities in which one imagines and acts out the role of another. * Exposure to emotionally arousing stimuli, such as portrayal of misfortune, deprivation or distress. * Activities that focus on the lives of famous empathic persons
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Empathy does not ask us to feel what a child feels. It does not necessarily demand that we have experienced what our child has experienced - in fact such an attitude can often serve as a hindrance. Life as a teenager fifteen or twenty years ago is not what it is now. "I know how you feel," is not helpful - nobody knows how another person feels because we are all different.
Empathy simply asks us to understand and appreciate what our child is going through. Accept their feelings as real and, in so doing, we help them to cope. We can do this by listening with understanding, and giving a name to their feelings when the occasion warrants it.
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This summer, I visited during a week devoted to “21st-Century Women” and heard a number of terrific lectures, including one by Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, who spoke about the role of women on the U.S. Supreme Court. As part of her talk, she recounted what she called “Empathy-gate,” the controversy over President Obama’s desire to appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices who are not only analytically brilliant but also can understand the real-life consequences of decisions on every day Americans.
While conservatives opposed the “empathy” standard as lacking rigor and promoting possible bias, Lithwick argued, quite persuasively, that empathy is an entirely appropriate and desirable quality for a member of the Supreme Court..
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While in that language, empathy is included as one component of the more complex task of reflective functioning, in Dr. Ornstein's language "empathy" encompasses the many components of reflective functioning. She writes:
The parent who is capable of parental attunement is one who developed an adult form of empathy-a capacity in which an adult man or woman can immerse him or herself into the inner life of a child without this threatening his or her own sense of separateness and without the parent injecting his or her needs into the interaction with the child. This is a more complex and difficult task than is generally acknowledged.
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On this summer day, I decided to try Pure Empathy. I began to witness out loud what I was seeing. I gave him five empathetic sentences, calm and clear, reflecting what I was seeing in his reaction.
Wow, I can see you are very upset about this.
I can tell by the expression on your face that you are mad that your snack bag is missing.
I really understand how disappointing that must have been to come to the car and not see your snack bag where you left it...
It was like magic. After about five or six sentences of reflection, he stopped his fit, got in his seat and buckled up.
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The capacity for empathy seems to be innate, but parents can encourage it in children by teaching them to relate positively to others and by modeling it themselves.
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Susan Raisch: Why do we need to teach young kids empathy?
Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put ourselves in another person's shoes — has suggested that it is key, if not the key, to all human social interaction and morality.
Sally Mabelle's comment,
August 8, 2011 9:54 PM
Glad to see Empathy receiving so much attention - in a 'competitive' culture, self-centeredness has been the norm - so a revolution in Empathy would mean a revolution in culture from 'Empire' consciousness to 'Earth Community' consciousness. We need to start giving collaboration and cooperation MORE attention and recognition than WINNING and 'being the best' - our current culture reveres sports heroes and business tycoons but does not reward teachers at the same level....Empathy is a key to creating a new culture where everyone is treated with love and respect - and we don't want to see any losers - not putting so much emphasis on who wins!
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EMPATHY: Identifying with and feeling other people’s concerns.
Empathy, the first essential virtue of moral intelligence, is the ability to identify with and feel for another person’s concerns. It’s the powerful emotion that halts violent and cruel behavior and urges us to treat others kindly. Because empathy emerges naturally and quite early, our children are born with a huge built-in advantage for their moral growth.
But whether our kids will develop this marvelous capacity to feel for others is far from guaranteed. Although children are born with the capacity for empathy, it must be properly nurtured or it will remain dormant.
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In this week's Moms Talk, we discuss helping kids develop their compassion and empathy for others.
We worry about how to prepare our kids for college. We support our kids' extracurricular activities and hobbies. We encourage our kids' friendships and growing independence. As parents, we also need to think about how we are teaching empathy to our kids. Empathy asks each of us to put ourselves in another person's shoes. The empathetic person tries to have kindness guide their interactions with others. Teaching our kids about empathy will help them become more compassionate and proactive when they witness injustice or cruelty.
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Presentation by Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the TEDx conference in Richmond, CA...
Definition of Compassion: A deep Awareness of others' suffering and desire to alleviate it. Concern for others is already present in the first years of life. This is the time to teach and nurture it. Great time of brain plasticity. For transcripts and more see Empathy Experts: Carolyn Zahn-Waxlerr http://bit.ly/mY8trd
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The idea that compassion can be learned—and that the process can be measured scientifically—is what thrills Davidson. And he envisions compassion training in a variety of settings, from public schools to the corporate world. “Now we mostly have monks and other religious figures preaching about these ideas,” he says.
“It’s quite another thing to have a hard-nosed neuroscientist like me suggest that such training may have beneficial consequences for how we act toward others as well as promoting health. Most people accept the idea that regular physical exercise is something they should do for the remainder of their lives. Imagine how different things might be if we accepted the notion that the regular practice of mental exercises to strengthen compassion is something to incorporate into everyday life.”
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Conveying empathy and identifying with another person's emotions are important in any relationship, personal or professional. In romantic or friendly relationships, empathy allows a closer sharing of feelings and increases camaraderie and companionship.
1. Establish the Environment 2. Empathetic Listening 3. Followup Effective empathy requires feeling emotions along with a person. This can be difficult in cases of strong emotions; supporting someone undergoing intense life issues may in turn cause you to need support yourself.
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How to Empathize Correctly. Empathizing is the art of acknowledging someone's feelings to show that you understanding without saying "I understand."
1. Listen 2. Recognize the Emotions Presented 3. Do Not Judge 4. Remove Yourself 5. Empathize 6. Continue
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