Chicago, IL – September 2015
Community Faith Leaders Compassion, Fatigue and Resiliency
Farha Abbasi, Reham Gassas, Hassan Lachheb, Mohamed Magid Ali
The purpose of this session will be for mental health providers and community faith leaders to help identify and understand what specific current mental health distress and challenges that are faced by Muslim community faith leaders, and to determine what resilience factors that are commonly used by faith leaders when distressed.
Allowing into our heart another’s suffering and giving our full presence can be a gift to the other and our self. Here’s how to show true empathy for others. Miki Kashtan, writing for the Tikkun Daily interfaith blog, points…
ABSTRACTEmpathy’s centrality to morality is heavily debated. Many religious and philosophical traditions have favored empathy, sympathy, or compassion as key to moral thought, conduct, or motivation.David Hume famously thought that the pains and …
These are just a few examples of the many metaphors and frames used to powerful effect in this document.They have one thing in common, which they also share with the progressive value system: they are rooted in a worldview based on empathy.This is Empa…
Erosion of EmpathyDevelopmental psycho-pathologist Simon Baron-Cohen put forward the idea of empathy erosion, which one can use to more deeply examine various psychological types such as psychopathy and autism. We all lie somewhere from high …
