When people think of empathy, they tend to see it as a soft skill, full of yielding and niceness.
That’s a part of empathy, but there’s a deeper and more full-bodied form of empathy that helps you engage with people when they (and you!) are not feeling nice at all. In The Art of Empathy,
I share a number of relationship skills for dealing with conflict and for repairing bonds, and this is one of my favorites: Conscious Complaining.
Yet there is a different interpretation of young people’s levels of empathy, one that takes into account their far greater tolerance today for lifestyles and values not their own. Larry D. Rosen, a psychology professor at California State Univers…
“Compassion is the radicalism of our time. “See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
Mindfulness meditation research has concluded that those who participate in a mindfulness program experience an increase in empathy for self and others. Is this really such a big deal? How does being empathetic, defined as the feeli…
The problem is that by approaching this as a question of sympathy it’s all about how the speaker thinks the world should work, and the speaker’s frustration that the world’s not working that way….. Empathy helps us see the challe…
