The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People7 Habits: Empathic ListeningSee it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

The truth is that being empathetic is one of the most worthwhile traits a person can have. To not only be able to acknowledge one another’s wellbeing, but to actually feel what someone else is experiencing, and to truly connect at that core level, is u…

The business community has embraced the concept of emotional intelligence and its importance ever since Daniel Goleman’s best-selling book, Working with Emotional Intelligence(1998). The challenge is to demonstrate that such competencies sign…

My medical school’s curriculum includes several lectures on compassion and empathy in the clinical setting.There has been much talk recently about the decline of empathy among physicians. Some have attributed this to a fault with the medical scho…

This seating arrangement unwittingly encourages empathy because students have to try to understand another student’s issues in order to help explain how to solve them. It is also a very different set of skills to have to explain something to anot…

We’re just at the beginning of what EmpathyLab will be doing and the difference it will be making to children’s lives. Find out more about our thinking, research and reading that is informing our development.http://www.empathylab.uk/about/b…

Empathy – the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Quite a simple concept when you think of it. But how much importance do we really put on this, especially when working with young people, the one group of individuals that prob…