New research from the University of Toronto-Scarborough shows that white people’s mirror-neuron-system fires much less, if at all, when they watch people of colour performing motor tasks, and I’m not at all surprised. For years, I just assumed that this was true, and that someone just had to do a study to prove it.
Create. Inform. Engage. | Journalism training, media news & how to’s1. Empathize “Journalists naturally need to be empathetic,” Leticia Britos Cavagnaro told Poynter via Skype. Britos Cavagnaro, adjunct faculty at Stanfo…
The Village of EmpathyThe objective of the Village of Empathy is to create civic engagement and social change agents.Our vision is a community that understands the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in order to create current and future leaders…
We have an empathy crisis in this country. Our fierce sense of independence and entitlement allows us to effectively shut off suffering for anyone but “our own.” We ALL know tragedy, hurt, struggle; we have all, at one point or another, col…
Understanding how people experience the world is key to developing new services. The Empathy map, based on a template developed by Osterwalder and Pigneur, in Business Model Generation, 2010, enables people commissioning and designing services to …
