Empathy Lessons

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• Return to Wittgenstein’s Vienna – not your ordinary travelogue

  By Lou Agosta on March 3, 2019

  

  Return to Wittgenstein’s Vienna – not your ordinary travelogue [Thursday evening 6 – 8:30 pm April 04 – May 23 2019 450 Citfyront Center 60611] Click here to register:  Register [http://tinyurl.com/y3wjdp9s  This course is about a man, a book, a city,… Read More ›

• Review: Empathy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  By Lou Agosta on February 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a page-tuner, highly engaging, but also deeply disturbing. Surveillance capitalism and its two major practitioners, Google [Alphabet] and Facebook, are unprecedented developments. Personally, I have been struggling to get my head around trends… Read More ›

• Empaths don’t get enough empathy: Review of The Empath’s Survival Guide by Judith Orloff

  By Lou Agosta on February 3, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Empaths don’t get enough empathy. An empath is a person who is naturally endowed with an overabundance of empathy. As I understand the term, a “natural empath” (my term, not Orloff’s) is an individual who is naturally endowed from birth… Read More ›

• Review: Fictive Narrative Philosophy by Michael Boylan

  By Lou Agosta on February 2, 2019

  

  Michael Boylan is a widely published philosopher and the author of substantial literary fiction in a series of six novels (and numerous short stories) extending from Rainbow Curve to Naked Reverse. As the philosopher who has innovated in formulating the… Read More ›

• Review: The Empathy Effect by Helen Riess

  By Lou Agosta on January 27, 2019

  

  The force of empathy is strong with Helen Riess, MD, and her team. In The Empathy Effect: 7 Neuroscience-based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences(with Liz Neporent, Forward by Alan Alda (Sounds True… Read More ›

• Top Ten (10) Empathy Lessons Trending in the New Year of 2019

  By Lou Agosta on January 6, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  10. Empathy versus bullying: in mud wrestling with a pig, everyone gets dirty – and the pig likes it. How to deal with bullying without becoming a bully? Set firm limits – set firm boundaries – thus far and no… Read More ›

• Top 7 Empathy Lessons in Leadership: The Video Replay

  By Lou Agosta on December 16, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  In the webcast the participants will engage how to:
  •    Distinguish empathy from compassion, forgiveness, pity, and “niceness”;
  •    Establish and maintain boundaries with bullies, slackers, difficult individuals, and friends while still honoring one’s commitment to empathy, to client service, to flourishing financially, to inclusiveness and community;
  •    Identify failures (breakdowns) in empathy and what to do about it; and
  •    Expand or contract empathy on demand by overcoming obstacles to empathy.

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