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Make Change

Ashoka Changemakers and the Christian Science Monitor share a vision for change. Join us as we connect knowledge to action; create communities of problem-solvers; and help readers become changemakers. Our first topic? Make Change on Empathy.

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Ari Cowan

Ari Cowan

Ari Cowan most recently served as the Director of the International Institute for Compassionate Cities (now CAN International Institute) and has since become a CAN International Fellow. He helped establish seven certified compassionate cities and more than 70 candidate compassionate cities as well as the first compassionate university.

We are recording a Google+ Hangout with empathy practitioners and Activating Empathy winners Changing Worlds, No Bully, and Sports for Sharing (changemakers.com/empathy). Ari Cowan will be moderating the discussion.

  • Leah Breen

    I agree that you need to be aware of yourself before you can understand and relate to others. Empathy stems from a deepl [...]

    338 days ago

  • Lauren Parnell Marino

    This is such a cool description - it really resonates with me. Thanks for sharing! [...]

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  • Edwin Rutsch

    HI Ari, I'd like to invite you to do an interview with me.. Invitation to be interviewed by Edwin Rutsch One on one S [...]

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  • Terry Taylor

    For me, empathy is about turning a mirror into a window. I often find myself consumed with my own physical, emotional (a [...]

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  • Ari Cowan

    The United States imprisons more than 2.3 million people — 1/4 of all people imprisoned in the world, despite the fact [...]

    342 days ago

  • Ari Cowan

    Wonderful observations. Very articulately put. [...]

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  • Kathleen Ervin

    So important to be compassionate and empathic not only to those we love and care for but also and perhaps, especially, t [...]

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  • Ari Cowan

    Being empathetic toward children, victims of disasters, vulnerable populations, victims of crime, and those experiencing [...]

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  • Ari Cowan

    Directing empathy toward children, victims of disasters, and those experiencing loss is one thing. Directing it toward d [...]

    345 days ago

  • Ari Cowan

    Empathy is an important element in being wholly human. Its presence is critical for cultivating and sustaining compassio [...]

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  • Ari Cowan

    I am a theorist, writer, and educator living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. I’m currently a Compassion [...]

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Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon

Former kindergarten teacher Mary Gordon started Roots of Empathy to reduce childhood aggression by teaching students emotional literacy and fostering the development of empathy, as well as social and emotional competence.

Looks like we’re going to have to reschedule our chat with Mary Gordon. Hoping she’ll be able to join us later this week. For now, we are recording a Google+ Hangout with empathy practitioners and Activating Empathy winners Changing Worlds, No Bully, and Sports for Sharing (changemakers.com/empathy). Post a question today!

  • Leah Breen

    I agree that all humans are innately empathetic and that empathy can be fostered through education. However, our world i [...]

    338 days ago

  • Leah Breen

    I think that your question of how to build a global movement is very relevant to today’s world. Information, ideas, an [...]

    338 days ago

  • Edwin Rutsch

    I invite you to see my hour long interview with Mary Gordon at http://j.mp/LDeQli My question is; What ideas do you [...]

    339 days ago

  • Edwin Rutsch

    Gyälten Here is a step by step guide to producing/moderating/facilitating and taking part in a panel. http://bit.ly/ [...]

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  • Edwin Rutsch

    If you would like to help produce a panel discussion on empathy and interfaith let me know.. send me an email to EdwinRu [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    Good policy, keep things universally applicable. [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    I believe empathy is applicable so far as seeing they are ignorant to the problems they create for others, and ultimatel [...]

    344 days ago

  • Gyälten Sangpo

    "We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success", defied monetarily rather than learning to th [...]

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  • Ari Cowan

    Directing empathy toward children, victims of disasters, and those experiencing loss is one thing. Directing it toward d [...]

    345 days ago

  • Ari Cowan

    Your observations are insightful and important. So many of us have faced loss and we can’t help but struggle to reconc [...]

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  • Mathew Emery

    I am a parent of two children, 10 and 11. Bringing deeper empathy into my actions/words with my children, wife, and fat [...]

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  • Henry Carl Simmons

    Here is an example of how some adults are learning empathy: the Micah Initiative (Richmond VA) pairs a congregant with a [...]

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  • GayAnne Sweazey

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to the point for me. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ I like to keep my [...]

    346 days ago

  • Gyälten Sangpo

    The profit margin, the drives to achieve efficiencies to maximize them directly impacts on balance negative care in nurs [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    I'm not trying to wave our flag here, but merely present one model that's in place under the patronage of HH Dalai Lama, [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    That is fantastic Edwin! [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    The ‘Core Curriculum’ provides a philosophical framework for all Universal Wisdom Education resources, programmes an [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    We call these things - "emotional literacy, social and emotional competence" mindfulness. Cultivating mindfulness. '"F [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    "Emotional literacy." I LOVE it!!! [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    Education is at the crux of the Buddhist practice. One of my lineage teachers set forth a vision and initiative that now [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    Thank you Edwin. [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    Education is at the crux of the Buddhist practice. One of my lineage teachers set forth a vision and initiative that no [...]

    346 days ago

  • Edwin Rutsch

    Gyälte, as a Buddhist monk, this Interfaith EmpathyConference may be of interest to you, http://j.mp/LD9rLP [...]

    346 days ago

  • Edwin Rutsch

    Center for Building a Culture of Empathy [...]

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  • Gyälten Sangpo

    As a Tibetan Buddhist monk, I rejoice at this new partnership initiative between the Christian Science Monitor and Ashok [...]

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  • Roger Lerner

    Teaching young children to stand up for each other when facing bullying or intimidation is vital. It allows us to teach [...]

    346 days ago

  • Edwin Rutsch

    We invite you to join the Empathy Conference: How to Nurture, Foster and Teach Empathy in the Education System? http:/ [...]

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  • Sarah Mintz

    Just one more insight from our #SocEntChat ... Check-out dovetaillearning.org for 12 practical tools that will help you [...]

    346 days ago

  • Jessica Feingold

    Here, here! One of the greatest things we are learning is that it’s critical to empower each role model in a child’s [...]

    346 days ago

  • Sarah Mintz

    Loved your comment from the #SocEntChat: let's inspire active learning & engagement. @Dance4PeaceNow: "let the students [...]

    346 days ago

  • Sarah Mintz

    Insights from @LynnJohnson of Go Girls: here's a link to the specific work of our #GoGirls project from this last year - [...]

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  • Sarah Mintz

    @First_Power: #SocEntChat Empathy = Listening, co-developing models with communities, teaching in community, oral tools, [...]

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  • Sarah Mintz

    Great Twitter conversation happening right now on Empathy. Insights from teachers, parents, practitioners and youth are [...]

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  • Sara Potler

    I am the Founder & CEO of Dance 4 Peace (www.dance4peace.org), a global peace education nonprofit that prevents viol [...]

    346 days ago

  • Lauren Parnell Marino

    Starting now (3PM Eastern time) until 5, we'll be talking about empathy in our education system on Twitter. Follow the h [...]

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  • Ann Moore

    How do you define empathy? I'm in a nursing home. Iquestion the quality of life for myself and others living in nursing [...]

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  • Abby Sanders Mintz

    You know, sitting here thinking about Empathy, it occurs to me that the wide spread teaching of and practice of Empathy, [...]

    348 days ago

  • Abby Sanders Mintz

    I am a mother of six amazing grown children. I also have a lot of experience working with children who have developmenta [...]

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