Four Ingredients that Move Students from Apathy to Empathy:
1. Margin..
A number of neuro-scientific experiments have been conducted, where brains were scanned to study how empathy emerges. Neuroscientists, like Dr. Thomas Lewis of UCSF, remind us that empathy is taken from two roots:
Em – to be within
Pathos – to feel or suffer with
2. Exposure…3. Hardship…4. Models…
Question:
How can you model more clearly the virtue of empathy each day?
How can you find time to tell stories of those who’ve embodied empathy?
Tim Elmore
