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empathy1210.pptx
Empathy
“The death of one person is a tragedy; the death of a million people is a statistic”
Question: Is it possible to apply to extend the bounds of our empathy, to include people we don’t even know and never will?
Paradox
“entering the private, perceptual world of another and moving about it as if it were one’s own, but without ever losing that “as if” feeling”
Question: Is this easier to do when we perceive a person’s world as similar to our own?
Empathy defined
Projection
What empathy is not
Sympathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
What empathy is not
Agreement
What empathy is not
Q: Have you ever felt empathy for someone you strongly disagree with?
Eliciting Information
Q: What are some ways you could elicit information verbally? What about nonverbally?
Behaviors that promote empathy
Affirming the content
Behaviors that promote empathy
Q: Is it possible to affirm the content without agreeing?
Affirming the person
Behaviors that promote empathy
Do we have a harder time empathizing with people who we perceive as “different” from us? (Who look differently, think differently, live differently?)
What are some possible consequences of failing to empathize with people different from us?
What do you think it would take for us, as human beings, to extend our empathy to groups of people we have never met and never will?
Discussion questions
