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Empathy is also a base for moral judgment and action. Many people's altruistic actions when helping a distressed person are strongly tied to their empathic feelings.
Various schools around the country are beginning to recognize the importance of teaching empathy and social and emotional learning to students. 
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The 'empathy' learning design encourages students to recognise perspectives other than their own ('walking in someone else's shoes). This may take the form of simulated debates or moots, decision-making for role play activities. It necessarily selects controversial and challenging themes which are a stimulus to debate concerning morality, ethics and social responsibility.
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Empathology - The alternative scientific study of the psychical influence of emotion transference and flow
Enroll to earn your Bachelor of Science Degree in Empathic Studies. Learn the intricate science behind the psychical influence of emotion transferance. Cultivate your new career as an expert in this parapsychology field.
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The classroom is more than just a place for students to learn reading and math skills. This is one of the main settings where children learn to communicate and interact with people. The citizenship lessons children learn in school help to shape the way they behave as adults.
One of the most important lessons in interacting with people is learning to show empathy, or relating to the feelings and experiences of other people and responding with kindness.
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The need for empathy arises in every life, all through most days. Just as often, barriers occur that keep us from being as empathetic as we could be. ... Good listeners attempt to surmount the many barriers to empathy that litter the road to true understanding.
- Lack of Time, Energy - Differences - Bad Feelings - Objectification
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Showing empathy toward a person can sometimes feel difficult and uncomfortable, as you may be worried about saying something inappropriate or behaving in a way that could upset the person.
Fortunately, conveying empathy can be done in a respectful way that is likely to be greatly appreciated. There's no perfect way to show empathy, but there are certainly a number of things you can do to help improve the communication.
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Empathy is “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner (Webster)”.
Empathy is distinct from sympathy (a feeling of compassion or concern for another, the wish to see them better off or happier. ), pity (feeling that another is in trouble and in need of help as they cannot fix their problems themselves), and emotional contagion (imitatively “catching” the emotions that others are showing without necessarily recognizing this is happening).
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Are children born empathetic?
Unlike appearance or intelligence, which depends largely on genetics, empathy is a skill that children learn. We are born with the capacity for empathetic behavior, but whether or not we mature into caring, understanding adults is principally determined by what we are taught. How do we teach empathy?
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TEDxGoldenGateED takes place on June 11, 2011 from 1pm to 9pm at the soaring and historic Craneway Pavilion in Richmond California. Join us to hear from a incredibly diverse field of speakers about what science tells us about compassion and empathy, and see how compassion improves learning.
Join us to explore humanity's stickiest idea: Compassion. In true TED fashion, we promise a full day of inspiration, insight, interaction, and delight as we learn about the new science of compassion, and see how compassion helps transform schools and communities.
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The following article will tell you about some ways in which you can carry out some active listening exercises to improve this skill. Active Listening Exercises.
* Really listen to a person instead of fazing out into your own dreamworld! * Mentally try and repeat what they are saying back to yourself so that you are active and get it right. * Do not interrupt someone when they are speaking to you. Not only is it insulting but you'll leave out on important information if you do that. * After they've spoken and there are doubts lingering, get clarifications by asking questions......
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This facilitator and participant guide is designed to help you explore the power of compassion in your own and others’ lives by providing tools for facilitating conversations about compassion in your community, organization, business, or school.
This guide contains a series of vignettes that explore; • What compassion is • The compassionate instinct • Self-compassion • Cultivating compassion • Compassion in action We’ve also included suggested questions to spark discussion around the essays, videos with accompanying discussion questions, suggested home practices, and resources for further exploration. [PDF format]
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Empathic listening is sometimes called active or reflective listening. It is a technique of listening and communicating to another person in a manner that enhances mutual understanding. It is a skill that is useful for disputants as it clears the air of misunderstandings and provides an environment where the people can discuss without conflicts. (image bit.ly/fBlDSg)
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A recent research published in the Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging suggests that individuals who meditate benefit from the changes experienced by the brain.
Specifically, the study says that people who meditate for a duration of around 30 minutes in a single day for eight weeks had measurable modifications in the gray-matter density in the brain. These gray areas are linked with sense of self, empathy and stress as well as memory.
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Doctors taught empathy techniques by theater professors show improved bedside manner, according to a pilot study by a Virginia Commonwealth University research team. The findings may help in the development of medical curriculum for clinical empathy training.
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Dr Greg Sipes talks about the importance of putting yourself in your teen's place and how empathy can forge better bonds and better decisions.
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Empathy is a complex emotional concept in which you identify and understand the feelings of others, and even share them in a way.
Being empathetic doesn't just apply to people who are sad or upset; it means you have the capacity to vicariously experience any emotions, thoughts and experiences of others.
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Empathy is the ability to understand what another person is feeling or experiencing. A person who is empathetic is able to understand how she would feel in another individual's situation.
Children who learn to be empathetic tend to do better in school and in their social lives. Developing this skill can help children take leadership positions as teenagers and lead to career success as adults. - Modeling - Correcting - Hypothetical Scenarios - Label Feelings
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"I understand how you are feeling." Normally, this is probably the most over-used and mistreated statement to show our sympathy for some individuals.
However, you ought to steer clear of saying this so casually because our emotions are extremely personal things; let's face it - you do not exactly understand how an individual feels at that time particularly if you haven't experienced that situation.
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From the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico:
This exceptional program explores through teaching, interactive sessions, and meditation the neurological basis of social intelligence.
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Martin Hoffman, a world-renown researcher from the University of Michigan, discovered that the most common discipline technique parents of highly considerate children use is reasoning with them about their uncaring behavior. The parents’ “reasoning lessons” helped sensitize their children to the feelings of others, and realize how their actions have consequences...
Seven Ways to Squelch Insensitivity and Boost Empathy. 1. Praise sensitive, kind actions 2. Show the effect of sensitivity 3. Draw attention to nonverbal feeling cues ....
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Feeling frustrated with kids is very common, however, showing empathy for kids when they make mistakes has a more powerful teaching effect.
Empathy is at the heart of Love and Logic. Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline studied parents to find out why some parents got good results when disciplining, while others, who used the same methods of disciplining, got the opposite. They found that it had everything to do with showing empathy, or sadness, for the kid’s mistakes before applying the consequence.
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No time-outs, no yelling, no spanking, no taking away toys. When contributor Jillian Lauren's son acts up, she treats him with 'empathy and respect.' How does it work? ...
So what do I do when my kid misbehaves? Take a Valium and give him a pat on the head? Not at all. I try to shift my focus from his behavior to the needs behind it. My son is only three, so there's still a fair amount of guesswork involved in this process. Sometimes I'm better at it than others.B ut I attempt to meet those needs with love and empathy. .. I believe that treating my son with respect and empathy will in turn teach him to be empathetic and respectful, which are traits that I value far above mere obedience.
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April is Autism Awareness month, and a perfect time to teach your children about compassion in the classroom... Compassion in the Classroom
*See the world through their eyes. Help your child imagine how challenging a day at school must be for a child with autism. Appreciating how well their autistic peer does in school given his social characteristics will help your child appreciate the student. *Be proactive. Ask the teacher! The teacher has a close relationship with the children and parents in her class. Certainly, he or she is aware of the things that help make each student tick. *Teach tolerance. Treat people with autism the way you would want to be treated, even if they do not know how to respond appropriately.
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Active listening is a communication technique that requires the listener to understand, interpret, and evaluate what (s)he hears. The ability to listen actively can improve personal relationships through reducing conflicts, strengthening cooperation, and fostering understanding.
When interacting, people often are not listening attentively. They may be distracted, thinking about other things, or thinking about what they are going to say next (the latter case is particularly true in conflict situations or disagreements). Active listening is a structured way of listening and responding to others,
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Effective listening skills can help a person who is suffering
from deep emotional wounds, or involved in a serious interpersonal conflict, to vent. Empathic listening skills require a different subset of proficiencies than conversing, and it is certainly an acquired skill. Many individuals, at first, find the process somewhat uncomfortable.
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