Empathy through engagementAt the heart of the Class’s Hour approach is a focus on engagement. Fortunately, you don’t need to dedicate precious class time to make engagement a priority.  Here are some steps you can take to integrate pri…

Empathy is an important psychological concept influencing social interaction. However, knowledge about its etiological components is still scarce.  Estimates for the heritability of empathy range between 0 and 70 % depending on the sample, me…

Dig into the power of digital storytelling through photos, videos, augmented and virtual reality. Create opportunities for students to construct and express their stories.  Build an empathetic community of learners by creating, sharing, and reflec…

We all want to rear children who demonstrate empathy, right? It may be a matter of overcoming the reality gap, and practicing what we preach. What can we, as parents, do to close this rhetoric/reality gap? The researchers give several good suggest…

Dr. Michele Borba shares 42 ways to raise a kind child from her book, UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World 1.Talk feelings. Kids need an emotion vocabulary to discuss feelings and guidance to become emotionally literate….

A workshop activity that forges alignment on user needs, goals, and pain-points, Persona Empathy Mapping bridges the gap between personas and design concepts. Empathy: it’s a buzzword in the UX design world. Everybody’s doing it! But w…

Successful leadership is defined by a single ingredient: it’s mastering successful conversations. By looking at the relationship between interaction skills and job performance, it’s easy to see why empathy is so important. “Overw…

DDI CEO Tacy Byham and SVP Rich Wellins weigh in on why empathy tops the list of skills that will drive leadership performance.To learn more about the link between empathy and leadership performance visit: http://www.ddiworld.com/hirezleadershipSee it …

Our relationship with technology is always fraught. Each new social media platform gives us more ways to connect with people we know–and people we don’t–from all over the world. But each new development also provokes fear of increasing isolatio…

Empathy is the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes and understand how they feel- to be them, even for a second.It’s the link between self and others, how we connect, heal, and relate.Considering its importance in every aspect …