The NVC Academy, the world’s first online school for Nonviolent Communication, is offering empathy related courses and resources in its NVC Multimedia library during the month of October.
Tomorrow, join relationship expert Kelly Bryson for a FREE teleourse entitled The Future of Love. Reimagine your perception of love so you can feel love more deeply, let love in and actually be love. Take this introductory session to determine if the full 6-week course is a good fit for you.
Conventional wisdom has long held that humans are by nature materialistic and self-interested. But scholar and writer Jeremy Rifkin argues in his new book that science is forcing us to rethink this notion, and that the growth of human empathy could help solve the problems that confront the world. MPR News interviews Jeremy Rifkin, author of “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis.” He is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends.
From Virginia Prescott of New Hampshire Public Radio:
Nine high school students were indicted Monday on felony charges in the suicide case of a 15-year-old Massachusetts freshman. Phoebe Prince and her family had moved to the country from Ireland last year. The young teen hanged herself in January after relentless bullying from peers.
More than 40 states have anti-bullying laws requiring schools to adopt preventive policies against bullying, but the indictment of students is unprecedented. It got us thinking about an earlier conversation we had about the growing movement to teach empathy in the classroom. The Boston Globe reported that about 10 percent of schools have added social and emotional lessons to their curricula.
So what does an empathy curriculum look like? We asked Dr. Marc Brackett these questions last spring. He’s co-developer of the RULER Approach of emotional literacy and the deputy director of the Health, Emotion, and Behavior Labratory at Yale. Also with us was frequent Word of Mouth Contributor and mother-of-two Sarah Baker.
If you’re not being heard, you have a choice, you can ask for what you’d like!
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Asking for Empathy
This is an audio excerpt from a recent telecourse series, “What is Empathy?”, sponsored by the NVC Academy and the International Day of Empathic Action.
“The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: ‘… it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.’”
—Excerpt from Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
In this telecourse recording, John Kinyon offers an overview and practice with 4 elements of empathy – presence, understanding/meaning, need language, and deepening into needs.
The focus of this recording is learning the presence of empathy and allowing the words of empathic reflection to flow naturally and simply from presence. This can happen when there is an “emptiness of the faculties” and listening with one’s “whole being.” You will also learn about giving people understanding in natural language before moving into translating and connecting to need language.
What is empathy, really? How do we experience empathy?
Nonviolent Communication Trainer Jori Manske talks about experiencing empathy and how to make it more accessible to us during a recent telecourse.
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About Jori ManskeJori is a CNVC Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and often works together with her husband Jim, committed for more than 30 years to cooperating together in the great adventure of life, openly and honestly sharing their deepest thoughts and feelings, and honoring and accepting each other with ever-increasing ability. Jori resides with Jim in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
In this audio segment, Kathleen Macferran shares her experience learning empathy, stressing that it’s our nonverbal presence that is at the heart of empathy, not our words.
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This audio excerpt from the free telecourse series, “What is Empathy?” is sponsored by the NVC Academy and the International Day of Empathic Action. Kathleen is offering a four week follow-up course titled “Embracing Empathy: In-depth practice for getting empathy into your bones.”
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About Kathleen Macferran
Kathleen Macferran is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and offers Nonviolent Communication (NVC) training to schools, community groups, churches, hospitals, families, correctional officers, and prison inmates. She is one of the trainers for the Freedom Project, an affiliate organization of CNVC that strengthens community safety through supporting the transformation of prisoners into peacemakers. In addition to working with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, Kathleen has been the Music Director of the Rainier Chamber Winds for the past 16 years. Kathleen views the music ensemble as a wonderful metaphor for social organization since the well being of one individual clearly depends on the well being of all.
Kathleen offers trainings in concrete skills of nonviolence leading to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones and the community.
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