Watch this episode to hear a Psychology Today blogger discuss how we can become better friends and listeners using three kinds of empathy.

Dr. Arthur J. Clark is a widely-published researcher in the mental health field and Professor Emeritus at St. Lawrence University. In this episode, he explains the difference between empathy and sympathy and the importance of empathy for cultivating human relationships.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Dr. Arthur J. Clark

01:20 What is "subjective empathy”?

07:08 How studying empathy has transformed Arthur’s life

10:16 Becoming a better listener using empathy

13:30 Empathic boundary-setting

18:40 Using empathy to understand silences

21:46 Empathy vs. sympathy

25:30 Arthur’s approach to consoling others

27:25 Training ourselves to be more empathic

30:38 Empathy lessons from President Biden

32:18 Arthur J. Clark’s Purposeful Empathy Story

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✩ Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dawn-memories

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Watch this episode to hear a "Teacher of the Year"explain how art education promotes empathy and a sense of belonging in children.

Jonathan Juravich is an elementary school teacher in Ohio who is passionate about developing self-awareness and empathy in his students through art and creativity. In this episode, he describes the use of a “mood meter” and discusses how small everyday acts of kindness lead to transformative change in students’ lives and how we all have a role to play in fostering this kind of change.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Jonathan Juravich

01:45 Why Jonathan loves teaching

05:58 The importance of having support systems as an educator

07:48 Why self-awareness is needed to have empathy

12:03 What is a "mood meter”?

14:26 How Jonathan helps students develop self-awareness

15:54 How adults can model empathy for kids

19:19 The impact of social media on youth

23:40 How small moments can have big impacts on others

29:13 The connection between art education and empathy

32:13 Jonathan describes his show "Drawing with Mr. J"

36:46 Jonathan Juravich’s Purposeful Empathy Story

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✩ TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpEzpSwy0k

✩ The Art of SEL Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-sel/id1566628859

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Watch this episode to hear how "The Village" promotes love, belonging, and empathy through stories.

Brenda Keesal is the Founder and Creative Director of The Village, a media platform that hosts gatherings for human connection through storytelling. In this episode, Brenda discusses her journey from filmmaking to social innovation, as well as the goal of "Hearts of Ukraine,” The Village's first social impact campaign. She believes opening our hearts to one another is a path to peace and social change.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Brenda Keesal

03:04 What is the power of filmmaking?

05:55 Brenda’s describes her "emotional action films"

09:20 Brenda’s ‘Eureka!’ moment which led to founding ‘Story Time’

12:33 The importance of emotional safety when storytelling

17:12 Brenda’s road to intentional healing and togetherness

20:22 What is "The Village” and what does it hope to accomplish?

21:10 Brenda describes "Hearts of Ukraine"

24:35 A powerful example from The Village’s social impact campaign

29:05 How The Village is a celebration of humanity

31:41 How to join The Village

39:57 Brenda Keesal’s Purposeful Empathy Story

CONNECT WITH BRENDA KEESAL

✩ https://linktr.ee/weare.thevillage

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Watch this episode to learn how to meet the fast-changing  needs of customers with empathy.

Nadia “Luna" Therrien is an Empathy Culture Creator dedicated to helping organizations to deliver more empathic experiences to their customers. In this episode, she describes how empathy fosters human connections and unpacks her L.U.S.S.O method of empathy - using hotels as the primary case study.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Nadia Therrien

01:46 Nadia’s backstory to empathy work

06:20 Harnessing empathy to create better customer connections

10:09 Nadia's definition of empathy

13:55 What is the L.U.S.S.O method of empathy?

15:01 L.U.S.S.O: the 5 skills for empathy

18:50 The power of positivity

21:33 How to center empathy in the customer experience

24:57 How to instil a culture of empathy in the workplace

30:53 Nadia Therrien’s Purposeful Empathy Story

CONNECT WITH NADIA THERRIEN

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Watch this episode to hear a leadership coach explain why a speak-up culture is needed in high-performance workplaces.

Stephen “Shed” Shedletzky is author of Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step up (forthcoming).In this episode, he discusses what he learned working with Simon Sinek for many years and unpacks what he means by  "speak-up culture,  a term he coined to describe what happens when organizations offer employees psychological safety and agency to fearlessly speak their truth.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Shed Shedletzky

02:01 Why aren’t we more empathic as a society?

06:41 How leaders can create a more empathic world

10:37 What it means for trust to be a ‘belief’

12:40 How are leaders created?

14:05 Why leaders have a responsibility to show empathy

17:08 What is speak-up culture?

19:30 The difference between speak-up culture and cancel culture

22:56 Understanding the difference between Intent and impact in cancel culture

25:47 Shed’s experience working with SImon Sinek

29:08 Shed’s advice for emerging leaders

31:36 Are we choosing the right leaders?

34:06 Shed Shedletzky’s Purposeful Empathy Story

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Watch this episode to learn how "social empathy" can be used to catalyze positive social change.

Dr. Elizabeth Segal is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University and the author of Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others. In this episode, she discusses how social empathy can inform good public policy, how power can diminish a leader’s capacity to empathize, and her surprising thoughts about performative empathy.

00:00  Introduction

00:23  About Elizabeth Segal

01:29   Elizabeth’s journey

05:15  What is "social empathy?"

07:30  Examples of social policies that embrace empathy

09:54 A turn towards empathetic public policy

13:26 Social empathy and climate change

15:20 The five components of empathy

20:34  How to become more empathic

24:04 Why is it important to set boundaries when practicing self-empathy?

26:18  Why power is a barrier to empathy

32:35  Truth, reconciliation, and empathy

34:51  Why performative empathy is useful

38:16  Elizabeth Segal’s Purposeful Empathy Story

CONNECT WITH DR. ELIZABETH SEGAL

✩ Psychology Today Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy

✩ Social Empathy Book: http://tiny.cc/SocialEmpathy

✩ Assessing Empathy Book: http://tiny.cc/AssessingEmpathy

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Watch this episode to hear an emergency room physician make the case that we should expand our understanding of healing.

Dr. Anoop Kumar is an ER physician, author, and speaker, who advocates for a global ecosystem of healing. In this episode, he explains how the mind-body relationship impacts our capacity to heal and why is calling for a health revolution.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Dr.Anoop Kumar

01:49 Why Anoop started Health Revolution

05:00 Anoop describes Advaita (aka non-duality)

08:21 How did Advaita change Anoop’s practice of medicine?

10:54 Why the Western model of anatomy is incomplete

15:30 Anoop's four engines of healing

16:45 Anoop shares inspiring healing stories

25:46 The role of psychedelics

32:24 How to promote global healing

35:07 The importance of accessing our innate powers for wellbeing

37:50 Anoop describes his two books Michelangelo's Medicine and Is This a Dream?

40:30 Why love is the greatest healing power

43:36 Dr. Anoop Kumar’s Purposeful Empathy story

CONNECT WITH DR. ANOOP KUMAR

✩ Healing is Possible Podcast https://youtube.com/c/HealingIsPossiblechannel

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Watch this episode to hear Dr. Judith Orloff describe how affirmations can change our lives and improve our capacity to empathize.

Dr. Judith Orloff is a psychiatrist and the New York Times best-selling author of The Empath’s Survival Guide. She specialises in treating highly sensitive, empathic people in her private practice. In this episode, she delves into her latest book Affirmations for Empaths, and discusses the neuroscientific benefit of using affirmations.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Dr. Judith Orloff

02:00 About Judith's new book Affirmations for Empaths

05:12 Can affirmations help prevent burnout in empaths?

7:13 The neuroscience of affirmations

11:33 Judith explains empathy as a spectrum

15:02 Judith’s advice for empaths

22:10 Judith's backstory to empathy work

29:20 What is the connection between intuition and empathy?

33:18 The importance of self-empathy

34:08 How to become better at listening to your intuition

38:15 How affirmations can improve an empath’s life

42:14 Dr. Judith Orloff’s Purposeful Empathy Story

CONNECT WITH DR. JUDITH ORLOFF

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✩Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DrJudithOrloff/

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Watch this episode to hear a Stanford Professor Emeritus explain why empathy is necessary to save humanity.

Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies at Stanford, where he taught for over half a century. He is an expert in evolution, ecology, and human biology and the author of The Population Bomb, considered one of the most influential books of the 20th Century. In this episode, he addresses the most existential problem facing humanity - climate change - and the significant role empathy plays in combating it.

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Paul R. Ehrlich

02:43 Paul reflects on a passage from his 2010 book Humanity on a Tightrope

04:00 What is the “human predicament”?

05:48 Why women’s human rights matter for climate justice

07:32 Why Paul is not optimistic about solving the population problem

10:52 What is the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB)  Initiative at Stanford?

13:38 Empathy’s role in tackling existential problems

18:12 The downward spiral of the last 15 years

21:11 The root cause of our perilous situation

26:44 Pearls of wisdom for young people

29:12 Paul R. Ehrlich’s Purposeful Empathy Story

CONNECT WITH PROFESSOR PAUL EHRLICH

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✩ The Population Bomb https://tinyurl.com/4f53tkpt

✩ Humanity on a Tightrope https://tinyurl.com/yc5t7upp

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Watch this episode to learn how empathy is a practice  that is available to everyone, not just the tender-hearted.

Karen Faith is the founder and CEO of Others Unlimited, an empathy training organisation for research, collaboration, and citizenship. In this episode, she explains how her research as an ethnographer has led her to develop a practice she calls “unconditional welcome.”

00:00 Introduction

00:23 About Karen Faith

01:31 How empathy is a practice available to everyone

03:10 Using ethnography to expand your perspective

05:03 How being an ethnographer changes personal relationships

08:02 What is "unconditional welcome”?

11:04 Benefits of ethnography work

12:52  Using empathy to help “you understand me”

14:03 About Karen’s training curriculum

20:32 How can ethnography help companies better understand their customers?

23:45 What is the most misunderstood aspect of empathy?

25:17 The most astonishing thing Karen’s research has taught her

28:42 Karen Faith’s Purposeful Empathy Story

CONNECT WITH KAREN FAITH

✩Website https://www.othersunlimited.com/

✩ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/othersunlimited

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✩ TED Talk  https://www.tedxkc.org/karen-faith

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