Recognizing Empathy in Your Inner Experience

What is empathy, really?  How do we experience empathy? Nonviolent Communication Trainer Jori Manske talks about experiencing empathy and how to make it more accessible to us during a recent telecourse. Click the arrow to play: /wp-content/uploads/2009/11/JoriM-what-is-empathy-20090820.mp3 About Jori Manske Jori is a CNVC Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and often works together [...]

Empathy Quote From an Old Movie Favorite

If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you`ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. —Atticus Finch To Kill A Mockingbird was was [...]

Animal empathy and its political implications

Primatologist Frans de Waal, author of “The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, has some surprising news about human empathy: among the beasts of the animal kingdom, we are not alone in this emotion. De Waal says research shows that both lab rats and elephants, among other creatures, have an instinctual tendency [...]

The Eyes Have It: Visual Cues Aid Empathy

In my practice of empathy, I rely on several sources of information to guess at what another person might be experiencing in the moment. These include spoken words, volume, pitch and subtle variations of  voice tone, posture, facial expression, my previous experience and knowledge of that person, and an unquantifiable quality of presence that allows me to fully receive this [...]

Humanizing Health Care with Nonviolent Communication

Book Review: Humanizing Health Care with Nonviolent Communication The truth about health care: how hospital politics often prevents patients from getting the care they need. Melanie Sears shares her insights as a nurse and a certified instructor of Nonviolent Communications as she gives a glimpse of what it’s like to work in a psychiatric hospital. There she [...]