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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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The Empathy Umbrella: We all contribute
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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:
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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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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