Empathy

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• Empathy and the Dramatic Arc
  “Stories bring brains together.” – Paul J. Zak This past week we have featured a couple of posts on empathy (see “Empathy + Equity –> Justice” and “Empathy Connect, Sympathy Disconnects”).  In light of these and...
• Experiment with Empathy
  We are wired for connection.  You give us the internet and we turn it into the largest web of connections that has ever existed.  Each of us has mirror neurons, “neurons that mirror the behavior of ...
• Networks-as-Change: Expanding Empathy
  “In principle, empathy can override every rule about how to treat others.” -Frans de Waal   Yesterday’s post considered the importance and power of the empathic turn in networks-as-change, to ground people in deep connection with living...
• Empathy + Equity → Justice
  Last Friday, Curtis posted a clip by Brene Brown. She argues that “empathy fuels connection, sympathy drives disconnection.” I want to take her thinking one step further. Empathy fuels connection. Lack of empathy fuels injustice....