As leaders, we need to make emotional connections with our target audience if we hope to influence their thoughts and actions. One very important way to connect positively with people is with what I call powerful empathy….Here are eight key empa…

Julia Lennon is a passionate performer. Her love of music and theater has offered exciting opportunities for Julia throughout her life, and has, in many ways, defined who she is today. Julia leads both the women’s a Capella group and the improvisation…

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call “terrorism,” I’m confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more.

Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways — they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs — they got progressively more agitated.

Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form.” 

― Marshall B. Rosenberg,

 Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World

“Empathy is not an inborn trait,” Borba writes. “Empathy is a quality that can be taught — in fact, it’s a quality that must be taught, by parents, by educators and by those in a child’s community. And what’s more, it’s a talent that kids can cul…