Managing Director of the Compassionate Listening Project and founder of the Free Listening Project of Puget Sound. Compassionate Listening Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform conflict and create powerful cultures of peace.
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I hate the concept of empathy, and if you’re a self-respecting aspie, you should, too. Neurotypical’s tell us we “lack” this condescending trait, and that because we do, we’re not normal.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
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And so we try to listen in a certain way… It’s a certain quality of listening which we call empathy and this is based on Carl Rogers definition of empathy back in the ‘50’s.He’s the man who brought the concept of em…
The empathy trap: therapists and counselors almost by definition are empathic, to facilitate clients’ recovery – but this quality can mean those carers are targets for sociopaths, aided by what Dr Jane & Tim McGregor call “apaths”…