Presented to a group of approx 20 leaders in the field of mentoring at the Friends for Youth Mentoring Conference, Thursday April 18, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA
Presented to a group of approx 20 leaders in the field of mentoring at the Friends for Youth Mentoring Conference, Thursday April 18, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA
Empathy: The Science of Feeling. Do You Have Enough Empathy to Reach Your Ful...UXPA International
Ever wondered what makes some practitioners truly great? Is there something in how they are wired that sets them apart and amplifies their contributions on products, projects, and within organizations?
Our presenters will explore how recent advances in brain science and empathic competency may offer practice owners and businesses measurable ways to hire and cultivate individuals who can make a true difference in the success of their products and teams. The two will share findings from their 2015 survey of more than 500 practitioners throughout Europe, Canada and the United States on the importance of empathy in designing informational environments.
Join our presenters and hear how a conversation about hiring for fit, the role of certifications, and predicting team success resulted in a journey to understand what really makes us tick.
(Participant count will be updated after research fields to reflect actual participant numbers and respondent geographies).
These are the slides from a workshop I am running, it definitely doesn't quite translate to self paced online, but you get an idea of some of the stuff. Please provide comments if you have any feedback!
Learn how to recognize and manage your emotions. Spot the emotions in others. Become more skilled at managing the emotions in others. Have better relationships with those around you. Move from being emotional to emotional intelligence. All of this is necessary to truly be prepared for the future of work.
To be a teacher is more than give instructions, you have to understand students ways of learning, infer what it happens inside their minds, it is to understand their role as a student.
Empathy in leadership : how will it serve the leaders and the team?
Much has been talked about the need for leaders to have empathy. At the same time, the conversation of how to develop empathy and on whether empathy can be learned or not has surfaced too.
Before we go into how empathy can be developed, let's take a look at how empathy helps leaders to be more effective with their team and what to be cautious on ie on how empathy can go wrong.
Yes, you read that right. It CAN go wrong, if it's not exercised with other EQ competencies and it can lead to burnout.
I believe this has been one of the major reasons why some leaders are very cautious or even reluctant about exercising empathy with their team.
Let me know what do you think.
Empathy: The Science of Feeling. Do You Have Enough Empathy to Reach Your Ful...UXPA International
Ever wondered what makes some practitioners truly great? Is there something in how they are wired that sets them apart and amplifies their contributions on products, projects, and within organizations?
Our presenters will explore how recent advances in brain science and empathic competency may offer practice owners and businesses measurable ways to hire and cultivate individuals who can make a true difference in the success of their products and teams. The two will share findings from their 2015 survey of more than 500 practitioners throughout Europe, Canada and the United States on the importance of empathy in designing informational environments.
Join our presenters and hear how a conversation about hiring for fit, the role of certifications, and predicting team success resulted in a journey to understand what really makes us tick.
(Participant count will be updated after research fields to reflect actual participant numbers and respondent geographies).
These are the slides from a workshop I am running, it definitely doesn't quite translate to self paced online, but you get an idea of some of the stuff. Please provide comments if you have any feedback!
Learn how to recognize and manage your emotions. Spot the emotions in others. Become more skilled at managing the emotions in others. Have better relationships with those around you. Move from being emotional to emotional intelligence. All of this is necessary to truly be prepared for the future of work.
To be a teacher is more than give instructions, you have to understand students ways of learning, infer what it happens inside their minds, it is to understand their role as a student.
Empathy in leadership : how will it serve the leaders and the team?
Much has been talked about the need for leaders to have empathy. At the same time, the conversation of how to develop empathy and on whether empathy can be learned or not has surfaced too.
Before we go into how empathy can be developed, let's take a look at how empathy helps leaders to be more effective with their team and what to be cautious on ie on how empathy can go wrong.
Yes, you read that right. It CAN go wrong, if it's not exercised with other EQ competencies and it can lead to burnout.
I believe this has been one of the major reasons why some leaders are very cautious or even reluctant about exercising empathy with their team.
Let me know what do you think.
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This is brief presentation about individual about there feelings and empathy, their behavior and response to the situation and prepare your action accordingly.
The presentation focuses on psychopaths- who are they, their traits, brain abnormalities, genetic basis, electrophysiological deficits, socialization function by brain
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Strategic Note-taking for Social Sciences Research QRSTUV.docxrjoseph5
Strategic Note-taking for Social Sciences Research: QRSTUV
Title and
Author
Question Research
Methods
Summary of Findings Takeaway
Message
Unfamiliar
Vocabulary
Kenneth Gergen,
“Together We
Construct Our
Worlds”
P5-12
Since what we
consider real is
socially
constructed,
what makes
people agree it
is real.
For example:
Before we
know tree is
tree. What
makes people
believe it is
tree?
Observation Gergen argues the most important means
of reality maintenance is conversation. It
is through conversation that we create
social common sense, which is also what
makes our world today. For example, if we
do not agree on trees as trees, then, there
will be no trees.
Social Origins of Good and Real:
• The ways in which we understand the
world is not required by “what there is.”
• The ways in which we describe and
explain the world are the outcomes of
relationship.
• Constructions gain their significance
from social utility.
• Values are created and sustained within
forms of life (including science).
If everything we
consider real is
socially
constructed, then
nothing is real
unless people
agree that it is.
Social
Convention : are
those arbitrary rules
and norms
governing the
countless behaviors
all of us engage in
every day without
necessarily thinking
about them, from
shaking hands when
greeting someone to
driving on the right
side of the road.
Social Utility :
is a service, or
characteristic, that
benefits the
majority of
population of any
given society.
Gerld Handel,
Spencer Cahill,
Frederick Elkin,
“Human Neural
Plasticity and
Socialization”
P13-19
Is it possible to
have a child
who were
born with
disability to
succeed as a
normal child?
Observation,
Content Analysis
• This article introduce the debate of
nature versus nurture focusing on human
development and individuals’
consequent abilities and characteristics.
• The author of shows a couple studies
that is limited to the importance of
neural plasticity during primary or
children socialization.
• The author is proven that neural
plasticity of human brain are the
foundation of child development. It is
what shapes the child’s personality and
abilities.
• However, socialization/experience
shapes biological functioning. In another
word, experience is what shapes the
neural circuitry of the human brain and
sustain it.
Humans have
not a single but
dual nature.
Human Neural
Plasticity : The
brain's ability to
reorganize itself by
forming new neural
connections
throughout life.
Synapse : a junction
between two nerve
cells, consisting of a
minute gap across
which impulses pass
by diffusion of a
neurotransmitter.
Infantile Autistic:
characterized by lack
of interest in others,
impaired
communication skills,
and bizarre behavior,
as ritualistic acts and
excessive attachment
to objects.
Kent Sandstorm,
“Symbols and the
Creation of
Reality”
P20-27
What is some
downside when.
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position
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"𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬."
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Forward-thinking leaders and business managers understand the impact that discipline has on organisational success. A disciplined workforce operates with clarity, focus, and a shared understanding of expectations, ultimately driving better results, optimising productivity, and facilitating seamless collaboration.
Although discipline is not a one-size-fits-all approach, it can help create a work environment that encourages personal growth and accountability rather than solely relying on punitive measures.
In this deck, you will learn the significance of workplace discipline for organisational success. You’ll also learn
• Four (4) workplace discipline methods you should consider
• The best and most practical approach to implementing workplace discipline.
• Three (3) key tips to maintain a disciplined workplace.
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It is a sample of an interview for a business english class for pre-intermediate and intermediate english students with emphasis on the speking ability.
Implicitly or explicitly all competing businesses employ a strategy to select a mix
of marketing resources. Formulating such competitive strategies fundamentally
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Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
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Kseniya Leshchenko: Shared development support service model as the way to ma...Lviv Startup Club
Kseniya Leshchenko: Shared development support service model as the way to make small projects with small budgets profitable for the company (UA)
Kyiv PMDay 2024 Summer
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Personal Brand Statement:
As an Army veteran dedicated to lifelong learning, I bring a disciplined, strategic mindset to my pursuits. I am constantly expanding my knowledge to innovate and lead effectively. My journey is driven by a commitment to excellence, and to make a meaningful impact in the world.
2. CALL FOR NEW AGE OF OUTROSPECTION
• Outrospection meaning discovering who you are and how to live by stepping
outside yourself and exploring the lives and perspectives of other people.
• Create better balance between looking inwards and looking outwards
3. CONCEPT OF EMPATHY
• Empathy involves stepping into someone´s shoes gaining an understanding of their feelings
(affective aspect) and perspectives (cognitive aspect), and using that understanding to guide
our actions.
• Two approaches to empathy are:
1. Perspective-taking (also called ´cognitive empathy´)
Cognitive empathy develops naturally in early childhood – just at the time when the distinction
between self and other begins to emerge – tells us that human beings are inherently social creatures
wired for empathy. It is about the ability to imagine perspectives other than your own. It involves
making an imaginative leap and recognising that other people have different tastes, experiences and
worldviews than your own.
2. Shared emotional response (known as ´affective empathy´)
Affective empathy is about sharing or mirroring another person´s emotions. Leading to a shared
emotional response.
4. 6 HABITS TO INCREASE YOUR EMPATHY LEVEL
1. Switch on your empathic brain
2. Make the imaginative leap
3. Seek experiental adventures
4. Practise the craft of conversation
5. Travel in your armchair
6. Inspire a revolution
5. 1. SWITCH ON YOUR EMPATHIC BRAIN
• ´Mirror neurons´ are neurons that fire up both when we experince something (such
as pain) and also when we see somebody else going through the same experience.
People with lots of mirror cells tend to be more empathic, especially in terms of
sharing emotions.
• ´Mirror neurons´ allow is to grasp the minds of others not through conceptual
reasoning but through direct simulation. Our brains mirror the state of other people.
• Neuroscience has dicovered empathy in ´mirror neurons´
• Most people are able to expand their capacity for empathy throughout their lives -
especially their cognitive or perspective-taking empathy - by practising mindful
attention towards other people´s feelings and experiences.
6. 2. MAKE THE IMAGINATIVE LEAP: BARRIERS
• We face four fundamental social and political barriers that block the full expression
of our empathic imaginations: prejudice, authority, distance and denial.
• Highly empathic people consciously strive to make the imaginative leap into other
people´s mental worlds despite all the barriers mentioned.
• We must first explore the four barriers to empathy in more detail in order to defy
them:
• Prejudice. The vast majority have assumptions and prejudices of others. We are prone to
stereotyping, making snap judgements based on first impressions, and casually project
our biases and preconceptions onto people while knowing very little about the reality of
their lives. What all stereotyping has in common is an effort to dehumanise, to erase
individuality, to prevent us from looking someone in the eye and learning their name.
The consequence of this is that it creates culture of indifference that empathy finds
difficult to penetrate.
7. 2. MAKE THE IMAGINATIVE LEAP: BARRIERS
• Authority. Humans have the tendency to obey authorities. ´I was just following the orders´
• Highly sensitive to culture and context
• We learn obedience from teachers and parents, and slowly absorb the culture of obedience as we
grow up
• Highly empathic people have the desire and capacity to defy authority when empathic actions calls
for it.
• Distance. When we do not know people, when their lives are far away and unfamiliar, our
capacity to care about them is more difficult to ignite. The spatial distance.
• Also social distance where we have bias towards empathising with people who socially resemble us
in some way, such as educational background, ethnicity or religion.
• Temporal distance. We worry about the welfare of our children or grandchildren. Bonds start
becoming weaker with respect to our great-grandchildren and even further.
8. 2. MAKE THE IMAGINATIVE LEAP: BARRIERS
• Denial
• People, organisations, governments or whole societies are presented with information that is
too disturbing, threatening or anomalousto be fully absorbed or openly acknowledged. The
information is therefore somehow repressed, disavowed, pushed aside or reinterpreted.
• Human beings are particularly skilled at protecting themselves by inventing convenient
reasons why they do not need to take action to relieve the suffering of others.
• All four barriers are primarily inventions of culture, society and politics, rather than
traits deeply embedded in human nature. This means that we can, as individuals and
societies, find ways to challenge them.
9. 2. MAKE THE IMAGINATIVE LEAP: TOWARDS EMPATHY
• There are three steps to make the imaginative leap of empathy: we must a) humanise the
´other´, b)then discover what we share – and what we don´t – with people, and finally we
need to c) empathise with our enemies.
a) Humanise the ´other´: acknowledge the humanity of people - their individuality and
uniqueness – and treat them as beings of equal worth. E.g. Shindler´s list: ”I knew the
people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them
like human beings.”
b) Discover what you share in common. We all possess deep wells of pain and sorrow that we
can draw on to help bridge social divides and create empathic bonds. We cannot assume
that others will share our moral codes, our tastes or our interpretations of the world. That
is why highly empathic persons also actively attempt to understand what they do not have
in common. We need to turn to the Platinum rule: ”Do unto others as they would have you
do unto them” – asking to resist the temptation of projecting our own experiences and
views onto others.
c) Empathise with your enemies. You can gain understanding of someone´s worldview
without having to agree with their beliefs or principles.
10. 3. SEEK EXPERIENTAL ADVENTURES
• Experiental learning may be the most demanding approach to empathising yet has the potential
to yield the greatest rewards. There are several way to try it for yourself:
• Immersion, physical like spending months in a wheelchair, become an undercover empathist. Try e.g. job
swap or shadowing for couple of days.
• Exploration, become like anthropologist who search out and closely observe lives and cultures that are
different from your own. For travelling to succeed in expanding our empathy, Che Guevara recommeds
to have project to direct you (his was to volunteer for a few weeks at the leper colony in Peru).
• Cooperation, working together with others leading to feel of belonging and empathy, think of it as
being in the same boat rather than the same shoes as other people. Thrust people together in an
intense shared experience or to pursue a common enterprise, and empathy is likely to flower.
• From the book by Griffin: Black like me: ”If only we could put ourselves in the shoes of others to
see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the
tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.”
• Pianists don´t perfect their technique by reading musical scores, nor carpenters by studying texts
on how to use a plane. They practise, practise, practise.
11. 4. PRACTISE THE CRAFT OF CONVERSATION
• Conversation is one of the essential ways in which we come to understand the inner emotional
life and ideas of others.
• Highly empathic people bring six unusual qualities to their conversations: curiosity about
strangers, radical listening, taking off their masks, concern for the others, a creative spirit, and
sheer courage
• Different communication guides, tips and ticks can make conversation mechanical and stilted,
introducing a serlf-consciousness and artificiality that actually get in the way of empathy
• The six habits in more details:
1. Curiosity about strangers. Curiosity can help us discover who are people around you, like neighbours,
co-workers, and how they see the world. We need to find ways of rediscovering the childhood
curiosity about strangers that most of us once naturally possessed. Conversations with strangers can
be an adventure in personal learning and enlightenment, a way to challenge your own ideas and
experiences to create a two-way dialogue, a ´conversation´ rather than an interview. Also essential to
realise is that most people actually want to talk about the things that matter to them. Offer them the
space, and they will open themselves to you.
12. 2. Radical listening is about our ability to pe present to what´s really going on within – to the unique
feelings and needs a person is experiencing in that very moment. A) presence involves emptying your
faculties and listening to the other person with your whole being, letting go of preconceived ideas and
judgements about them. B) consciously focus on identifying the other person´s feelings, and c) make a
concerted effort to understand their needs. One should also show understanding of the conversation by
paraphrasing what they have just said, reflecting their message back to them in the form of questions that
use neutral language.
3. Take off your mask. Empathy is built upon mutual exchange: if we are open with others, they are much
more likely to be open with us. Conversation is a two-way dialogue to create mutual understanding.
Removing your mask is about embracing vulnerability. In our culture vulnerability – exposing your
uncertainties, taking emotional risks – is considered failing, weakness. Brené Brown argues: ” We´re
brought up believing and being taught and seeing it modelled in our parents, that vulnerability is
weakness, and that going out into the world without armours is basically asking for the hurt that you get.
But to me, vulnerability is not weakness – it´s the greatest measure of our courage.” continuing: ”When
vulnerability is not tolerated in the workplace, we can forget about innovation, creativity and engagement.
Those are all functions of vulnerability.”
4. PRACTISE THE CRAFT OF CONVERSATION
13. 4. Concern for the others. Strive to focus on the other person´s interests and wellbeing, not just your own.
Empathy marketing is about stepping into people´s shoes, understanding their mindset, unconscious
desires and emotions, and then using the insights to sell them your product.
5. Creative spirit. Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When
approaching a conversation with creative spirit, delving into the worldview of another person, and sharing
your own with the other person, they might emerge slightly altered by the experience, and have empathic
insights that offer fresh thoughts and perspectives. Experiment conversations with adventurous openings
in order to brake conventions so your conversations become energising, memorable and vehicles of
empathic discovery.
6. Sheer courage. All the five previous habits require sheer courage. Courage also enables us to have those
really difficult conversations that we would much rather avoid, but which may offer the greatest scope for
cementing empathic attachements. Only with an attitude of freedom and spontaneity will empathic
conversation fully flower. Self-empathy is in some funfamental way about being good to yourself and
liking who you are. If you feel secure in yourself you will have a deep well of inner emotional strength and
self-knowledge to draw upon to care about others.
4. PRACTISE THE CRAFT OF CONVERSATION
14. 5. TRAVEL IN YOUR ARMCHAIR
• ´Armchair empathy´ is a form of travel you can do in your own living room.
• Literature, photography, film and other art forms have the ability to take us on imaginative journeys into lives that are profoundly
unlike our won, and also inspire empathic acts on the behalf of others once we have put down the novel or left the cinema.
Photographs excel, more than any other form of either art or journalism, in offering an immediate, vicerally emotional connection
to the world.
• Empathy is at the heart of storytelling itself. What sort of writing is most likely to expand your sensitivity to other people´s lives?
• Online connections allow two-way interactions enabling connections with different people around the world and learning about
other people´s lives.
• Empathy thrives best in relationships that have depth, and when we can immerse ourselves in other people´s unique view of the
world rather than a prefabricated online profile. Social networks may bring us into contact with global communities we feel part of
but in and of themselves these networks are not usually designed to facilitate making the imaginative leap into other mids. People
tend to behave in a deceptive and self-aggrandising way and pretend to be thinner, more popular, and more successful than we
really are. Possibility of anonymity and invisibility creates an ´online disinhibition effect´ where people feel licenced to engage in
antisocial behaviour like cruel and rude comments. Most fundamental problem is that e-personality can drift towards narcissism
which then comes to infect our offline personality too.
• The Arab spring and Occupy Movement revealed that digital technology can help to channel and spread powerful emotions such
as empathy and anger. Social media was a superb tool for the short-term objective of mobilising people to take part in public
protests, and to communicate what was happening around the world, but it was less good at providing other essential ingredients
of long-term social movement success.
• In some cases expanding our empathic abilities may be difficult, or even impossible, to explore some people´s lives through
approaches such as direct experience or conversation. In such cases Internet and armchair empathy can offer the possibilities to
create empathy.
15. 6. INSPIRE A REVOLUTION
• Empathists of the World unite!
• We are social animals, joy and meaning in life grow from being immersed in something larger than ourselves.
Acting together to create change.
• Could we be developing a global empathic consiousness that embraces not only all human beings, but also
animals and plant life, and even Gaia herself?
• Empathy is much more than a feel-good emotion that is limited to the realm of individual experience: it can
also be a collective force with the power to change society.
• There are now three promising realms: the teaching of empathy skills to schoolchildren, resolving and
mediating conflict situations and generating empathy for future generations to help tackle climate change.
Empathy can be learned and nurtured throughout our lives.
• There are growing number of peace-building and mediation projects that explicitly use empathy to help
resolve conflict situations, and that are scaling it up into a powerful collective force.
• Many climate change activists, environmental organisations and policy makers are starting to realise that
expanding empathy accross space and through time can ratchet up our moral concerns to new levels and
spur us to take concrete actions. They understand that we must become experts at imagining ourselves into
the lives and thoughts of the current and future victims of global warming.
16. THE FUTURE OF EMPATHY
• The future of empathy lies not just in the choices we make as individuals to transform our
own lives. To fulfil the revolutional potential as a force for social change, we must generate a
deep cultural shift so that looking at the world through other people´s eyes becomes as
common as looking both ways when we cross the road.
• Here are three ideas that can help ignite our collective imaginations and launch us into a
new empathic era: empathy conversations, empathy library and empathy museum of
experimental adventure space where you can explore how to view life from the perspective
of other people.
• Please share books, films, apps and articles that you have found to spark empathic thinking
and action at www.empathylibrary.com
• Do also read the whole book to be more inspired about Empathy, there are lots of examples
and stories not covered by this extraction. Full details of the book: Roman Krznaric: Empathy,
why it matters, and how to get it. 2015. The Random House Group company, UK.