Four Essentials to Move Students from Apathy to Empathy 

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