Empathy as a Factor for Change

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Research in empathy andcompassion as a factor for change: Lidewij Niezink, PhD

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change How our world is ChangingGoogle Books (corpus English) 1900-2008

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change How our world is ChangingGoogle Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches havebeen done for the terms youve entered, relative to the total number of searches done on Googleover time.

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeHow our world is Changing

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeProblem: what is empathy?

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeInput from diverse fields of scientific enquiry:•Psychology•Neuroscience•Biology•Philosophy•Arts / Humanities•Anthropology•etc

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeThe Empathy Umbrella: Explosion of output!

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeThe Empathy Umbrella: We all contribute

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change The Empathy Umbrella: How can we come together?Combining Research and Walking the talk:

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles• Open to anyone with a willingness to practice empathy.• Focussed on deepening different empathic skill components.• Offer a platform: from a need to be heard to a space to listen.• International: online, through Google Hangouts: on youtube

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeEmpathy Circles:

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles: Intention• Stepping out of reactivity into intentionality.• Behavioral intentions predict intentional behavior (Ajzen, 1991) depending on ultimate interest.• I am willing to empathize: from ultimate (society/ culture) to specific (in this circle).

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeRitualize Intention

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles: Self-Empathy• Mindfulness / Open awareness• Meta-cognition: the ability to know that we know, to observe that we think (Flavell, 1979).• Self-Compassion: extremely important for emotion regulation (Neff, 2003).• Non-Judgemental

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeEmpathy Circles: Mirrored Empathy

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles: Reflective Empathy• Rogers: Client Centered Therapy• When reflected: Better Emotion Regulation • Less negative affect after describing conflict • More alignment (language and ideas)

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles: Imaginative Empathy• Cognitive empathy / theory of mind (ToM) or mentalizing: the ability to represent and understand the mental states of others.• Empathic accuracy: 25-35% (Ickes, 2003)• Block: projection• Perspective taking: self vs other• Story telling / Role play / Fantasizing

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles: Empathic Arising• Mysterious consequence... Action/creativity• Arising in the moment, signalled by arousal.• A feeling of belonging due to the circle process• Tapping into motivational system• Building resillience?

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeEmpathy Circles:

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles: Building a Culture• Restorative Empathy Circles• Family Empathy Circles• Mediation Empathy Circles• Scholarly Empathy Circles• Charter for Compassion Book Club Empathy Circles

Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change Empathy Circles: Invitation• Participate in a circle.• Help us in researching the effects of the circles• Join us in applying your findings!• Want to know more? It is all online ;-)

Empathy Circles: A Factor for ChangeBlowing our intention into the world

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