Empathy Lessons

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• 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?

• Top 30 Empathy Lessons for Life, the book

  By Lou Agosta on March 26, 2018

  

  This book contains some thirty (30) empathy lessons for life. A key empathy lesson that explicitly addresses empathy training: remove the resistance to empathy—obstacles such as cynicism, shame, guilt, aggression, narcissism, devaluing language, and so on—and empathy spontaneously shows up, comes… Read More ›

• Top Ten (10) Empathy Lessons Trending in the New Year 2018

  By Lou Agosta on January 7, 2018

  

  Here are Empathy Lessons for the New Year ahead. You know what would really interest me? To hear from you (dear reader) what is your empathy lesson? Whether inspired by this list or your own experience over the winter holiday… Read More ›

• Empathy Lesson: Empathy, Capitalist Tool

  By Lou Agosta on October 29, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Empathy, Capitalist Tool: In this video (two parts) – Lou Agosta is interviewed by Brandon Hamilton about business and empathy on the Russ Meeks Speaks show (Channel 21, Chicago (RCN)) on October 20, 2017 / November 04, 2017. This is… Read More ›

• Historical Empathy and the 2nd Amendment: About Guns

  By Lou Agosta on October 3, 2017

  

  Putting ourselves in the situation of people who lived years ago in a different historical place and time is a challenge to our empathy. It requires historical empathy. How do we get “our heads around” a world that was fundamentally… Read More ›

• Empathy Lesson One: Empathy is Not Compassion

  By Lou Agosta on August 30, 2017

  

  Most people think that empathy is compassion; and, heavens knows, the world needs more compassion. But empathy and compassion are distinct.

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