Vinciane Rycroft & Edwin Rutsch: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Education

Vinciane Rycroft is Director and Co-Founder at Mind with Heart, an educators’ network for a secular education in empathy and compassion. The main focus is on creating the conditions for young people to come to a firm commitment to empathy and compassion based on their own reasoning, experience and initiative.

Hosting the Conference: Empathy and Compassion in Society.

 

The Conference will address three topics:
1. Compassion and empathy: scientific definitions, misunderstandings and function.

2. Compassion, the benefits at the personal level.

3. Compassion in action and social cohesion