This document discusses how volunteering can be an empathetic experience. It notes that while more people are volunteering, volunteering in Korea tends to be short-term and focused on human services rather than broader civic issues. True social change comes from cultivating both cognitive and affective empathy through volunteering, which allows people to understand other perspectives and share emotions. The document suggests various ways to structure volunteering opportunities in order to foster empathetic experiences, such as facilitating reflection and discussion about social issues volunteers encounter.

1. Volunteering as Empathic Experience
Theresa OH
Executive director
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2. More people are participating in volunteering.
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21.4% | 8.3mil

3. It can never be enough to emphasize about the importance of volunteering.
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4. “Volunteering is worthwhile. I love it!”
“I felt great about myself as I had become a special person to somebody else.“
“Volunteering has changed my life.”
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How about their real life? Why satisfaction doesn’t bring changes in the real life?
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6. Volunteering in Korea
•More focused on human services
–Korea has strong emotion for the vulnerables
–Tendency to separate from civic participation on issues
•Increased short-time, one-time volunteers
–Employee volunteers and student volunteers
–Too busy to be regular volunteers
•Self-framed evaluation
–Lack of understanding & empathy about social unfairness
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7. Volunteering is not only to feel like being a good person.
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8. Volunteering for True Changes of people
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Individual motivation
Person
Good will
Social motivation
Citizen
Justice
Empathy
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9. Empathy
is feeling oneself to be connected to others.
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10. Empathic Experience
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Empathy
Change of thought
Change of emotion
Change of action
Social awareness
Compassion
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11. a cognitive empathic ability to see the world from a view of others
an emotional ability to resonate with others’ feeling.
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12. Human spontaneity is originally based on altruism and advocacy.
Altruism and advocacy is important cause to bring voluntary participation of people.
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13. •Radical source for social change
–Affective empathy: sharing emotions
–Cognitive empathy: taking perspective others
•Empathy is “learned”.
•Mass empathy can change society
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14. Volunteering is good to practice social empathy
•Field to see and understand.
•People to learn from each other.
•Opportunity to have a reflection through volunteering.
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15. How can we structuralize empathic moments
in volunteering?
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16. Coordination of Volunteer Activity
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Orientation
Opening
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Activity
Action
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Closing
Reflection
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•Remind information about the activity
•Cautions and attitudes
•Greetings and introduction
•Ice breaking
Support volunteers to join volunteering well
•Job allocation
•Encouragement
•Check amount of work
•Wrap-up
•Cleaning
See if volunteers is doing well, and lead them to do so.
•Sharing the result
•Compliment & Celebration
•Connecting to the issue – Empathy on Issues
Share how well volunteers have participated.
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17. “I will look for child care centers in my town.”
“What is this number? Please, guess it!”
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18. 45%! This is the relative poverty of senior households over 65 years old and the highest among OECD countries. Yet only 16.8% of whole welfare budget is used for the elderly.
Why this issue is taken today is to think about the elderly problem. Pension and insurance system is getting better than before, but it is too much lack at the reality facing aging society.
Why are the elderly so poor in developed country like Korea?
Why are still there the poor elderly who are not supported enough?
Will you think again about this problem when you are back home? And please also think if there is anything you can do for them and move in action.
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19. Other Ideas for Empathy on Issues
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23. Other Ideas for Empathy on Issues
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Pledge card

24. Other Ideas for Empathy on Issues
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Balance introspection with outrospection
in volunteering.
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27. Volunteering as Empathic Experience
•Social Empathy to be inspired by participatory learning
•Social skills through team based activities and collaboration with local stakeholders
•Leadership through finding problems and solving them with people
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28. Volunteering is not just to help others.
Volunteering is to live together in the community
as a voluntary citizen with empathic ability.
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Thank you!
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Theresa OH
therys@hanmail.net, ohmytheresa@yahoo.com