Teaching Empathy

Empathy is one of the most valuable skills in the workplace. It has also been in continual decline for more than 20 years. We've developed Empathy Camp™ and Lifeology™ to help strengthen your team’s empathy muscles to generate better collaboration and decision making in the workplace. Learn how to develop empathy and apply it on the job.

Empathy is behind success in the workplace. From team collaboration to decision making, innovation to communication, when deployed effectively, empathy drives some of the biggest business success stories. One famous example is Dove’s Real Beauty campaign. It leveraged an empathetic understanding of how women perceive real beauty and turned it into billions of dollars in additional revenue.

About Empathy Academy
Online education doesn't have to be a solitary activity full of quizzes and timed assignments; it can be a welcoming place where people can learn together and connect in an empathic online community.

Empathy Academy is an online learning community devoted to clear and practical education about emotions, empathy, communication, and community.

We offer online courses for people with busy lives. There are no tests or extensive homework, and you can learn on your own time in a welcoming and empathic group of fellow learners.

Each course contains online curriculum that you can read on your own schedule (there are very few deadlines), and a community forum where you can connect with your fellow learners and instructors (again, on your own time). Many courses also include weekly Zoom webinars so that you and your learning community can get together in real time, face to face.

Start the year off right. On purpose, deeply connected, and with mindfulness and self-love.

We're here to help fill up your own cup, unlock joy and purpose, and strengthen your emotional resilience.

Join Michael Tennant, empathy expert, and creator of Actually Curious the card game, and Megan Lee Joy, positivity and mindfulness coach for an experience that sets the foundation for lovingly pursuing your intrinsic desires in 2022, and beyond.

Workshop highlights

• Intro and Icebreaker
• Emotions and Somatic Experience Exercise
• Manifestation Meditation
• Values Exercise
• Intention Setting

Judith Orloff MD, a New York Times bestselling author of "The Empath’s Survival Guide" and the upcoming “Radical Empathy," discusses how to ignite the power of empathy and intuition at work, teaching viewers how sensitive people can thrive in an insensitive world.

There is a powerful connection between your emotions, intuition, and empathy. The magic comes when you learn how to tap into each of them to access your sensitivities without going on overload or becoming drained by challenging or stressful situations at work. Learning how to keep your center and avoid burnout in all situations is important to identify emotional triggers so you can master strategies to own the moment in your interactions.

The Middlesex County Office of Health Services in New Jersey hosted a free online seminar on overcoming compassion fatigue a few months back.

It invited first responders and frontline workers to sign up to hear about ways to cope with burnout after a year and a half of caring for others in the face of a pandemic — and to learn about how any reduction in empathy that they may be feeling is completely normal. And you don’t have to be a healthcare worker to be undergoing these effects.

OCT 5, 2021

What happens in the workshop?

• Lecture by keynote speaker (Jeremy Howick), designed to inform and motivate attendees to improve empathic care.

• Brainstorming session in pairs (or small groups, depending on room layout) on barriers to empathy and how to remove them

• Evidence-based empathic behaviours

• Self-empathy (required to give empathy to others)

• On the alleged dangers of being too empathic

• Being empathic in difficult cases (including end-of-life)

• ‘Deep’ empathy (cultivating presence and emotional curiosity).

• Changing organizations (and beyond).

Jackie Acho founded The Acho Group, a strategy and leadership consulting firm, in 2005. She has worked for technology, industrial, academic, nonprofit, and economic development clients on a variety of issues, with particular focus on growth and innovation, strategy, and leadership development for more than 25 years. Her current work includes empathy-centered cultural transformation with the Cleveland Police, which will be the focus of her presentation as part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series.

Acho and her colleagues write about how leaders can create an organizational Currency of Empathy at currencyofempathy.com; at The Acho Group, her team helps leaders and organizations recover their humanity and entrepreneurial spirit. She is the author of Currency of Empathy — The Secret to Thriving in Business & Life. Prior to founding The Acho Group, she was a partner of McKinsey & Company, and has taught in the Masters of Finance Program at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.

Among her honors

About Empathy School:
FuelEd’s Empathy School is a training on the art and science of effective listening. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s feelings or perspective and to communicate understanding to that person. Research demonstrates that when teachers and school leaders are more empathic, relationships are more productive and satisfying, resulting in a healthy school culture where students and adults thrive.

Empathy School combines interactive activities, group discussion, skills training, role-play, and reflection to help educators master the four components of empathy:

• taking others’ perspective,
• recognizing others’ feelings,
• communicating understanding of others’ feelings,
• and staying out of judgment.

 
However, I would add that though empathy is a necessary factor for success in many areas of life, it may not be sufficient by itself. It is what you do with the empathy—the action. That is, you could use your empathy to understand others, but not convey it. Or, you could use it to understand people well enough to manipulate them to your advantage, even to a sociopathic degree. Or, much better yet, we can resolve to use it for more healing action this year.

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn 3 easy techniques to cultivate empathy in the workplace. Participants will put the techniques into practice during the workshop so that they experience for themselves how it's done and the positive impact.

This is for you if you want to:

Build connections & trust
Create a safe space & a culture of belonging
Be an empathetic leader regardless of your title or role
BENEFITS

In this live training you will :

Learn 3 techniques to easily infuse empathy into the workplace
Use the breakout rooms for hands-on learning
Receive templates to use post-workshop

Agenda for this 90-minute session:

Origins and principles of co-listening
Practice in break-out rooms
Experience sharing, Q&A
Use-cases in organisations
Suggestions to go further
We look forward to connecting with you in this workshop!

Sebastien & the Tirezio Team.

UNESCO MGIEP and Life University (USA) are inviting the world’s youth to enroll for Self-directed Emotional Learning for Empathy and Kindness (SEEK) – an online course that cultivates skills such as empathy, mindfulness, and compassion so youth are well-equipped to contribute towards the development of peaceful and sustainable societies.