Empathy plays a crucial role in innovation, changemaking, and solving entrenched systemic problems. We need the skill of applied empathy - the ability to understand what other people are feeling and to guide one's actions in response - to succeed in teams, to solve problems, to lead effectively, to drive change.
In recent years, Ashoka (a non profit that invests in social entrepreneurs) has been working with social entrepreneurs around the world to develop programs teaching empathy to children in their home, schools, and communities.
Ashoka has collated a collection of articles and videos about empathy that we can all learn from on their website (look under resources). Empathy 101 shows leading innovators and educators explain, in two minutes or less, how we can cultivate empathy in our own lives.
(Thanks, Grace!)
In recent years, Ashoka (a non profit that invests in social entrepreneurs) has been working with social entrepreneurs around the world to develop programs teaching empathy to children in their home, schools, and communities.
Ashoka has collated a collection of articles and videos about empathy that we can all learn from on their website (look under resources). Empathy 101 shows leading innovators and educators explain, in two minutes or less, how we can cultivate empathy in our own lives.
(Thanks, Grace!)
