Hearing the other person out is the first step; then listening to what they are saying is the second. That second step is the doorway to empathy. Feel free to step inside.
Whether you realize it or not, hope and empathy are tied and almost inextricably tied together. You can start spreading hope today. You just have to take a time out for hope and empathy.
Bob Schneider
The Dalai Lama’s version of compassion is more muscular than Sunday-school stereotypes of a benign but soft and flabby kindness. He sees such full disclosure as one application of compassion in the public sphere, as is forceful action to right injustic…
One person’s empathy is another’s countertransference. I will not confess my weaknesses, since they will be obvious to the reader in any case.The short – very short – definition of “countertransference” is one’…
Empathic distress can also take the form of physical symptoms and a desire to flee. In one case, a man, Francis, couldn’t get through the first day of a weekend men’s retreat before he regretted being there. Another participant had shared…
To solve real problems for people, Design Thinking methodologies require that you start by creating empathy. However, what is empathy and how does it translate into developing products that people love? With over 15 years of new product development exp…
