Empathy and compassion are essential to personal well-being. They are also skills we can develop that help us to resolve conflict nonviolently.
On today’s show we talk with Mica Stumpf and Peijman Kouretchian of Emergency Peace Teams about their research on Empathy—what it is and what it is not. Learn about their work on an “empathy app” for smart-phones, and get some good ideas for nonviolence workshops by listening to them model the practice of empathy.
Teresita argues that genuine empathy for patients—a level of empathy that allows understanding what they’re going through well enough to be able to meet their needs and adequately support them—can only be learned one way: from the pat…
“You can close your eyes, close your ears, close your minds, close your doors, close your frontiers. Or you can open your heart” -Stanley Cohen First Song: ‘…See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
Philosophers, futurists, authors, writers and even an American president are calling for a rethink of how modern society works or, more to the point, why it doesn’t seem to work.This video provides an overview of what has gone wrong and what needs to b…
by Olivia TIn the end, Abigail realized that “if you picture yourself as someone else and think about what they might be going through and what might be causing them to act the way they do, you see things a lot differently and give them a second …
