David Levine
David’s work as an empathy specialist is highlighted in his books Teaching Empathy, Building Classroom Communities, and the School of Belonging, and has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC news, and Forbes Magazine.
David is internationally renowned for using music as a catalyst for empathic dialogue and his teacher training sessions provide the tools for creating an emotionally safe learning community free from bullying and other forms of aggression.
Through her talk, Indi Young explains how we must ask and listen more as a means to get past our assumptions.Absorbing eclectic ideas, understanding varied work patterns and incorporating different ways of thinking will help broader ideas sprout.She ca…
The simple act of listening may be one of the most effective and least expensive medicines around. Sometimes the best “medicine” is simply becoming an empathetic, compassionate listener.” Rev. Alisdair Smith, co-founder of the Greater Vanc…
Empathy, again, is the power way to understand and imagine another person’s feelings. Sympathy can be draining, but empathy cannot. Sympathy leads us to feel that we have to do something. Empathy empowers us by providing a special sense of togetherness…
Biological explanations of mental illness reduce clinicians’ empathy for their patients, according to a new Yale study.U.S. physicians were given a series of fictitious patients with various mental illnesses that were explained using either biolo…
