This empathy workshop is ideally suited for people who want to learn to better interact with customers, patients, or clients. The training course is hands on and taught in an interactive seminar format.
Course Outcomes
This empathy skills course will:
Explain the value of empathy.
Offer techniques for incorporating empathetic listening into daily communication.
Describe what empathetic body language looks like.
Provide tactics for connecting with customers, colleagues, and clients.
HOW EMPATHY CAN CLOSE THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE GAP If your primary KPI (key performance strategy) is revenue growth, then your focus should be on boosting retention rates and increasing the lifetime value of your customers. These objectives go hand-in-hand with customer experiences built on empathy. Customers want to do business with brands that care about them and demonstrate the same values that they practice. (Last year, a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers found that 60% want companies to take a position on social issues.)
Empathy Training: How to get a group to do an Empathy Circle? By: Lou Zweier
The Empathy Circle is the most effective gateway practice for learning, practicing and deepening listening and empathy skills, as well as, nurturing an empathic way of being.
Empathy Education Workshop Series in Theory, Practice, and Policy
Tuesday, May 4 | Workshop 1 – Empathy Education Theory: Intersectional Approaches This workshop explores how intersectional approaches can be applied in the context of youth empathy education, including issues of equity and social justice in relation to race, gender, sexuality, disability, and decolonization.
We will also focus on the interplay between dialogue and discourse as tools for empathy and compassion. Finally, building on the work of Patricia Hill Collins, we will discuss the factors of “Intersectionality as a Metaphor Heuristic and a Paradigm” as it connects to empathy education.
Tuesday, May 11 | Workshop 2 – Empathy Education Practice: Arts-Based Education In this second workshop, we will discuss the role of the arts, music, literature, and sound technology as part of an empathy education curriculum.
Also in the discussion will be a focus on the role of non-formal education as a community development model. Finally, using a model of Bridging Worlds as part of an empathy education curriculum, we will look at how empathy education can be reciprocally support in the classroom and community.
Fun, Facilitated Networking at 9:30-- The meeting will open with an activity to help you to get to know other members of the SEAF Community. To participate easily, please update to the latest version of Zoom.'
The program begins at 10am with Presenters Shelton Davis and Theresa Ward
How to layer empathy into Facilitative Leadership Frequently misunderstood, often misinterpreted, empathy is a skill that every facilitator needs to succeed. We may call it a ‘soft’ skill, but considering 83% of employees state they would leave their jobs to join a more empathetic organization, the impact of empathy can’t be overstated—and should never be underdelivered. Empathetic teams and cultures empower true collaboration, productivity, and engagement.
So how can facilitators master this seemingly elusive skill? And how might they instill it in their teams?
Join Shelton Davis and Theresa Ward of Empathy Lab, as they walk you through the foundational elements of a true and lasting empathy practice. In this highly engaging, interactive workshop, participants will walk away with what it takes to bring empathy into your work:
A clarified understanding of this skill A regular practice that is immediately applicable Techniques to use in facilitation that create an ‘empathy utopia’
What Is Empathy – A Definition Empathy is understanding and experiencing the feelings of another person and supposing their thoughts from their position. The one empathizing can feel the distress of another the way they perceive it. According to Carl Rogers, to have empathy is “to sense the hurt or the pleasure of another as he senses it.”
Much of our modern understanding of empathy is based on the works of Carl Rogers, the American psychologist. It was he who told us we can learn to be empathic.
Video Interviews Empathy and Grief with Tiffany Bartlett On this special (Halloween) episode of the empathy podcast I spoke to Tiffany Bartlett, a widow who lost her husband 4 months ago at the age of 33. Tiffany opens up about her experience so that we can all learn how to better support our friends and family who are grieving - to make their journey easier, not harder.
One week of online workshops promoting empathic listening and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offered for free by trainers from all over the world!
Learn empathic communication with us, look at empathy from different perspectives and become part of the NVC community which inspires and supports each other!
Our goal is to support people in developing their empathic listening skills and to spread Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as wide as possible by offering this free online event.
To do it on a bigger scale we invited trainers willing to join this project and offer online events for free. Meet them and discover different angels of empathy!
2021 02 11 Empathy Training Introduction and Orientation to the Empathy Circle Facilitator Training. This is an introduction to how to sign up and take part in the Empathy Circle Facilitator Training.
Learn to facilitate an Empathy Circle. Join this event if you would like to take part in the training.
We are forming multiple cohorts of 4 to 20 participants. There is limited space in each cohort, and all participants must check with trainers to be accepted into the training. The basics of facilitating an Empathy Circle are fairly easy, however, it is a life long learning to deepen the skills and build a more empathic way of being and culture.
Designing for Empathy™ is a framework through which empathy, and empathy-building are explored in a variety of contexts, disciplines, and sectors. Designing for Empathy Workshops™ embody innovation in action as part of an iterative process based on collective learning. Through multidisciplinary and cross-sectors collaboration and experimentation we aim to help develop those tools to intentionally design transformative spaces and experiences that foster empathy for the whole — all of humanity, and the planet.
Great designers are empaths. They harness the power of emotional response to connect to audiences and inspire action. If you want your designs to move people, you need to understand the role emotion plays in your work.
Join Stefan Mumaw for this fun and frank exploration, which probes the human condition for lessons that can be used in any design project: from branding campaigns to product packaging. Stefan explains how emotion, rational thought, and culture impact our reactions to design, and how you can use different choices and tools—layout, typography, color, and more—to trigger different emotions and achieve connection with your brand, product, or service.
Join Marissa Latshaw for an interactive, 30-minute webinar to find what it really means to get systematic about applying empathy in all areas of your business. Learn how to build empathy into your strategic plans to create better outcomes for your customers, employees, partners, clients, board members, donors... or anyone that you serve.
Last year, we coined the term “Chief Empathy Officer” to describe the new mandate for CEOs to act with empathy as the pandemic brought unprecedented global turmoil on businesses and the workforce.
Fast forward a year, and the call for empathy has only intensified. But the good news for executives: Empathy, especially cognitive empathy, the act of intellectually relating to another person – is a muscle that can be trained and honed. When practiced by leaders with their people, empathy can build stronger teams and cultures, answering the call for inclusion that’s increasingly heard in modern workplaces. Empathy is critical to building high-performing teams that deliver tangible impacts to your bottom line.
To empathize means to comprehend another person well enough that, given a particular purpose, you can act and react the way they would, make decisions based on their principles–dropping your own actions, reactions, and principles for a small period of time. Empathy is putting yourself–cleansed of your own style of thinking–in this person’s place.
Empathy requires imagination and interpretation, a lot like what an actor must do when playing a new character. And this kind of deep understanding across many people gives your organization strong patterns to take into account when deciding product strategy and flow. It also clarifies the types of audience segments you can support, based on their styles of thinking instead of demographics.
As a product manager, developer, designer, analyst or marketer, empathy in your work is for exploration and definition.
Empathy Training: What is a good size for an Empathy Circle? By: Lou Zweier
The Empathy Circle is the most effective gateway practice for learning, practicing and deepening listening and empathy skills, as well as, nurturing an empathic way of being.
Empathy trainer Katherine Teh says one of the first "levels" of empathy training is learning "self-focus listening" and listening to others as a means to recognise things that are most important to other people.
“One of the first things that we do is listening training and self-focus listening is the first level – it’s where people are literally listening to what someone says in order to pivot to something that’s important to them about themselves,” she said.
Ms Teh said everyone knows someone who prefers talking and hearing about themselves rather than listening and building connections with others in conversations.
“We all know people like that. When talking to them you never really feel like they understand you or engage with you – and of course that means you feel less connected to them.”
Michael E. Morrell is Associate Professor, University of Connecticut. His main research interests examine the connections between empathy and democracy, the effects of direct democratic participation on citizens, and the role of political efficacy in democracy, public opinion, and political behavior.
Michael is also continuing to explore his theory of the role of empathy in democracy as it relates to topics ranging from President Barack Obama to agonistic democracy. Michael is author of Empathy and Democracy: Feeling, Thinking, and Deliberation.
Center for Council envisions a world in which every voice is heard, no one is invisible and all have the opportunity to connect to community.
The mission of Center for Council is to train practitioners of council and to create and support council-based programs that foster collective wisdom, greater resilience and a deeper sense of community.
When empathetic communication is encouraged at work, individuals feel more comfortable speaking openly, they feel like they matter, and they feel safe. That's why empathy at work is crucial to company-wide success. In this course, communication expert Sharon Steed explains the principles of empathetic communication and shares specific strategies to help improve your approach to difficult conversations. Get ready to learn how to converse empathetically to improve your one-on-one conversations and team interactions.
This book explores the construct of empathy and its connection with education. Charting literature on the origins and evolution of the concept of empathy, the author examines the multifaceted nature of empathy and the external and internal influences behind this concept.
The relationship between empathy and education is examined through the impact they have on each other for the development of social and emotional understanding, positive social behaviours and effective teaching and learning. In doing so, the author emphasises that empathy apparent in the early years of life is invaluable for enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in future, and should be elicited from pupils and teachers alike
. This book will be of interest to practitioners, educational psychologists, and researchers in empathy and its effect on education.
2021-02 -12 Introduction and Orientation to the Empathy Circle Facilitator Training. This is an introduction to how to sign up and take part in the Empathy Circle Facilitator Training.
There is limited space in each cohort, and all participants must check with trainers to be accepted into the training. The basics of facilitating an Empathy Circle are fairly easy, however, it is a life long learning to deepen the skills and build a more empathic way of being and culture.
Her newest book, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir (Penguin Press, forthcoming 2021), ties together her personal story with her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Her previous book, the New York Times bestseller, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (Penguin Press, October 2015), investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity.
Learn about how practicing empathy—building a connection—makes customers feel cared about and creates rapport. Instructor Myra Golden shares three keys to empathy in customer service and reveals how to use empathy to put customers at ease and reduce callbacks. Learn about how to use empathy to your advantage with difficult customers. Plus, if genuine empathy is challenging, Myra shares a formula for conveying empathy even when it doesn't come naturally.
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