Empathy Lessons

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• Top 7 Empathy Lessons for Leadership: webcast (Thur 11/29 noon CST)

  By Lou Agosta on October 30, 2018

  

  Empathy is never needed more than when it seems that there is not enough time for it. Register Now: 7TopEmpathyLessonsWebCast: https://chicago.uchicagoalumni.org/article.html?aid=1866 Location: online Cost: complimentary Summary: The same executives who claim to be empathic in the human resources meeting with… Read More ›

• Empathy Lessons #17 and #18

  By Lou Agosta on October 6, 2018

  

  This is an excerpt from Empathy Lessons (2018): (17) Empathy is the ultimate anti-bullying anti-dote: Bullying is abroad in the land. Bullying is not just for high school anymore, but is getting called out (contained and transformed) in the work place,… Read More ›

• Empathy Lessons #14 and #15

  By Lou Agosta on September 16, 2018

  

  When people do not get the empathy to which they feel entitled, they get enraged. De-escalate rage by providing empathy and empathic relatedness.

• Reading Literary Fiction Expands Empathy – Making Empathy Present for the Reader

  By Lou Agosta on June 30, 2018

  

  Time was when it was a bold statement of the obvious that reading a good book expands one’s empathy. It’s summer in the city of Chicago. People are going to the beach, the park, leaving town for the wilderness or… Read More ›

• Review: Extreme Empathy [I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy by Cris Beam]

  By Lou Agosta on June 12, 2018

  

  In the book I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy (Houghton Mifflin, 251 pp. (26 US$)), Cris Beam makes empathy present. She brings forth empathy her engagement with difficult cases that challenge our empathy, including her own conflicts. In the… Read More ›

• Review: Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding by William R. Miller

  By Lou Agosta on June 2, 2018

  

  In case you are unaware of William Miller’s background, he is the innovator behind Motivational Interviewing. Listening well – the practice, not just the title of the book – is at the heart of this approach. In turn, the practice… Read More ›

• Top four (4) empathy breakdowns – and how to overcome them

  By Lou Agosta on April 29, 2018

  

  Empathy breaks down into emotional contagion. Empathy breaks down in conformity and the closing off of possibilities for flourishing. Empathy breaks down in projection. Empathy breaks down in devaluing and cynical language, in which our humanity literally gets lost in translation. These are not the only ways that empathy fails, but they are the Big Four. How to overcome them?

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