Here are further ideas and resources for global scale Design Thinking projects:”Empathy on the Edge”: An essay on exploring how empathy Design Thinking works.”Extreme By Design”: An interactive experience designed for 4th through 12th grade students, t…

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.”  Dayananda Saraswati

 
Our stories are powerful tools that can be used to confront social problems. When a personal story is being shared we unconsciously create an emotional connection with the storyteller and empathize with their experience.

While we cannot empathize with everyone’s situation and experiences, we gravitate towards certain elements and information from the story itself; like dates, events, images, names and places which resonate in our own lives.

This allows us to better understand the emotional makeup of the person that is sharing their story with us and therefore, helps us develop empathy towards people that were once strangers.

Indeed, I would suggest that empathy, although mentioned only once, underlies the entire document and is a key to its implementation. It is not farfetched to imagine that the pope’s many gestures of compassion—the affection he shows to peop…

TEDxLivermore team has chosen empathy as the theme for its 2016 meeting.Tedx will be held from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on June 25th at Las Positas College in Livermore. Global thought leaders, entrepreneurs, authors, artists, innovators and scienti…

This year we are taking our theme from inspiring discussions we have had regarding the kinds of pressures, stresses, and divisive forces that face us in our world today. These forces diminish productivity and excellence. We believe that the antidotes c…

According to the consultancy Development Dimensions International, roughly 20% of employers in the U.S. now offer empathy training for managers, a sizable increase from 10 years ago, reports the Wall Street Journal.  Listening and responding skill…

Come along to a day of activities at the Empathy Museum this Saturday 25th JuneDear Friend,Please join us at the Empathy Museum on Saturday June 25th 2016 for a day of events at NOW Gallery, Greenwich as part of …

In “UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World,” her 23rd book, Dr. Borba combines scientific research with tales from real-world families and offers concrete tips on how to cultivate kindness.We talked recently about &…

In this series we connect the dots on work in Degree Show Two. Here, we look at engaging empathy through design… Design, it could be said, is an intrinsically empathic process. To connect with the lives of others, to think from another…

Bedside manner need work? Improving physician empathy can strengthen your patient relationships and impact both patient satisfaction and patient outcomes. Physician empathy is so important in fact, that a wealth of recent studies have tied physici…