Mary Gordon is the Founder/President of Roots of Empathy, Blogging at the HuffPost:
However, empathy is not just a matter of nature, but also of nurture. Homo empathicus may be born with the capacity for empathy, but we must experience it to know how to do it. Empathy develops out of our earliest loving relationships.
And here is where we have a tremendous opportunity as a society. If we want to change societal levels of empathy, the best place to start is with children. We can impact civilization in profound and monumental ways by supporting the development of empathy in all children. Just imagine: an entire generation of children, with their capacity for empathy fully nurtured, growing up to become the parents, citizens, and world leaders of tomorrow. The well-known African proverb is that it takes a village to raise a child. What I’m proposing is that it might take an empathic child to raise a village (and many children to raise our global village).
This morning on police website officer.com, police Chaplain Dave Fair suggests police officers try practicing empathy in their interactions with the public. Here’s an excerpt:
The Empathy Labyrinth creator, 
