Who’s to say that when it comes to how people’s complicated lives unfurl, Justin Trudeau’s empathy reservoir is any less full than Tom Mulcair’s?
Too bad there isn’t an objective measure of empathy, like the BMI (body mass index), where you can type in a few key experiences, statements and actions and voila, it tells you that when it comes to empathy, you’re either Mother Teresa or Darth Vader. Or like most of us, somewhere in between.
Judith Timson
Empathy is a powerful communication skill that is often misunderstood and underused. Effective empathetic comunication enhances the therapeutic effectiveness of the provider-client relationship.Appropriate use of empathy as a communication tool …
In this post, Ken Moriyama, an MPP student at the University of Oxford, reports from the Skoll World Forum. …So what does this all mean and which skill do we need to develop to make it happen? According to Ashoka, empathy is the foundational ski…
Learning how to be compassionate and how to relate to the unique feelings of other people (getting your attention off yourself) are critical developmental tasks of childhood. Since empathy is a skill that children are not born with it must be taught, l…
“An exercise on the challenges of aging helps students feel more compassion for patients, but researchers say repetition is needed for lasting results. The link of outcomes and empathyPrevious research has shown a positive relationship between p…
