empathy as a factor for change
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Presentation by Lidewij Niezink at the 'Empathy and Compassion in Society Conference', London, November 2012. How can we make sure that the research on empathy and compassion contributes to this changing world? By turning it into practice: Empathy Circles combine research from different scientific disciplines into one instrument which helps us to walk the talk. Want to know more? Contact us at: www.cultureofempathy.com www.lidewijniezink.com Creative Commons Licence Empathy as a Factor for Change by Lidewij Niezink is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.TRANSCRIPT
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Research in empathy and compassion as a factor for
change:
Lidewij Niezink, PhD
Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
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How our world is Changing
Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
Google Books (corpus English) 1900-2008
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How our world is Changing
Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you've entered, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.
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How our world is Changing
Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
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Problem: what is empathy?
Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
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Input from diverse fields of scientific enquiry:
•Psychology•Neuroscience•Biology•Philosophy•Arts / Humanities•Anthropology•etc
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The Empathy Umbrella: Explosion of output!
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Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
The Empathy Umbrella: We all contribute
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Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
The Empathy Umbrella: How can we come together?
Combining Research and Walking the talk:
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Empathy Circles
• Open to anyone with a willingness to practice empathy.• Focussed on deepening different empathic skill
components.• Offer a platform: from a need to be heard to a space to
listen.• International: online, through Google Hangouts: on
youtube
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Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
Empathy Circles:
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Empathy Circles: Intention
• Stepping out of reactivity into intentionality.• Behavioral intentions predict intentional behavior
(Ajzen, 1991) depending on ultimate interest.• I am willing to empathize: from ultimate (society/
culture) to specific (in this circle).
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Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
Ritualize Intention
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Empathy Circles: Self-Empathy
• Mindfulness / Open awareness• Meta-cognition: the ability to know that we know, to
observe that we think (Flavell, 1979).• Self-Compassion: extremely important for emotion
regulation (Neff, 2003).• Non-Judgemental
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Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
Empathy Circles: Mirrored Empathy
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Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
Empathy Circles: Mirrored Empathy
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Empathy Circles: A Factor for Change
Empathy Circles: Mirrored Empathy
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Empathy Circles: Reflective Empathy• Rogers: Client Centered Therapy• When reflected: Better Emotion Regulation
• Less negative affect after describing conflict• More alignment (language and ideas)
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Empathy Circles: Imaginative Empathy• Cognitive empathy / theory of mind (ToM) or
mentalizing: the ability to represent and understand the mental states of others.
• Empathic accuracy: 25-35% (Ickes, 2003)• Block: projection• Perspective taking: self vs other
• Story telling / Role play / Fantasizing
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Empathy Circles: Empathic Arising
• Mysterious consequence... Action/creativity• Arising in the moment, signalled by arousal.• A feeling of belonging due to the circle process• Tapping into motivational system• Building resillience?
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Empathy Circles:
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Empathy Circles: Building a Culture
• Restorative Empathy Circles• Family Empathy Circles• Mediation Empathy Circles• Scholarly Empathy Circles• Charter for Compassion Book Club Empathy
Circles
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Empathy Circles: Invitation• Participate in a circle.• Help us in researching the effects of the circles• Join us in applying your findings!• Want to know more? It is all online ;-)
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Blowing our intention into the world