Effective communication skills modeled by Rick Goodfriend presenting in this empathy workshop clip in Ojai California
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Effective Communication Skills – Empathy Video
October 6th, 2011Empathy is the October Theme at the NVC Academy
October 5th, 2011The 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.
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The Empathic Civilization: Animated!
June 4th, 2010Bestselling author, political adviser and social ethicist Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Beautifully animated by the RSA.
Harding & Yorke – Linking Empathy with Profit
May 13th, 2010This infomercial for Harding & Yorke is fascinating, it seems that empathy is being successfully integrated into businesses in the UK. Somehow, the video left me with the notion that H&Y is attempting to encapsulate empathy into a sell-able commodity. I wonder if I have that impression because I don’t have much experience with British business culture. Mechanized is the word that comes to mind. All in all, I’m thrilled to see empathy come to business as an effective tool, though I hope nobody ever finds a way to dehumanize it. How did this video land for you?
Empathy in Business & Brands: Wired to Care, with Dev Patnaik
May 6th, 2010Recent history has seen the rise of innovation as a key mandate for driving top-line growth in business across multiple sectors. But as organizations have devoted increasing resources and attention to innovation, a critical issue has been ignored in the process. How can you create new value if your company doesn’t have a gut sense for what people outside its walls actually value? The challenge facing business today isn’t a lack of innovation, it’s lack of empathy. Listen to Dev for a look inside leading companies like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Harley Davidson, Nike, and Delta Airlines to see how empathy can drive change and growth. He dives deep into the human brain to find the biological sources of empathy and their critical role in decision-making, learning, and judgment. And he spends time on both sides of the political aisle, to show how empathy can give politicians the acuity to cut through a morass of contradictory information. Learn more about Sustainable Business & Design at: sustainablelifemedia.com
Jeremy Rifkin on Evolution, Empathy and Human Survival (VIDEO)
February 14th, 2010From @Google Talks, Author Jeremy Rifkin addresses Google staff members…
I began watching this video and then realized it’s 50 minutes long, wondering if I would be able to last through his presentation. Although people familiar with Ken Wilber’s work might find his talk less illuminating, I was nonetheless impressed with Mr. Rifkin’s command of the material and noncombative perspectives about issues that others find extremely controversial. I watched the entire talk, and I’m glad that I did. I’ll be looking for more material to post from Mr. Rifkin.
The Empathic Civilization is the first book to explore how empathetic consciousness restructures the ways we organize our personal lives, approach knowledge, pursue science and technology, conduct commerce and governance, and orchestrate civil society. The development of this empathetic consciousness is essential to creating a future where we think and behave like the whole world matter.
Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work.
The dark side of empathy, with Frans de Waal
January 31st, 2010In my experience, empathy has a neutral quality to it. Neutral, in that I am temporarily setting aside my own perspective to understand the perspective of another. As Frans de Waal points out in this video clip, though neutral by nature, empathy can be used in self-serving and even destructive ways. Watch this short clip from a conversation de Waal had this week with Carl Zimmer of Discover magazine:
