By Inez Tan
Leslie Jamison’s essays in The Empathy Exams ask – and begin to answer – an array of important questions about pain, healing, and empathy.
To list just a few: When does empathy actually reinforce the pain it wants to console?
Can pain be actual and constructed at the same time?
And how do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?
The lecture emphasized the role that verbal and nonverbal presence plays in establishing compassion in times of crisis.“We are living in a society where increasingly we are not present,” Tracy said. “Compassion begins with the choice …
The UNESCO child and family research centre at NUI Galway recommends that we teach children empathy in schoolsGreed is dead. Empathy is in. The opening lines of Frans De Waal’s renowned book, ‘The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society,’…
According to neurosurgeon Jim Doty, mindfulness and compassion must go hand in hand. KN: How do we find a balance between feeling burned out by compassion and being detached from others’ pain? JD: People who are markedly empathic and pe…
The Roots of Empathy program celebrated 10 years in the Hamilton area with a recognition event.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
