“People can be in the exact same setting and have different reactions,” Ekman said. “That’s why it’s so important to look at internal factors, and that’s not historically been done for this kind of work.”Cultivating empathy — the ability to understand…

The designer and illustrator’s cards offer touching yet witty messages for those going through a rough time.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Creating more or better empathy is now framed as an affective ‘solution’ to a wide range of social ills and as a central component of building cross-cultural and transnational social justice.  Yet empathy – understood in shorthand as t…

LewisWe started with a brainstorming session about our research. We took our notes and refined and organized them. Next we moved on to write out our design challenge and we voted on one “How Might We” question per each group of notes/issue …