All About Empathy

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Empathy Training - Do you need to harness your ability to empathize with others?  It's never to late to harness this skill.  

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Empathy training is ..... Learning how to LISTEN, CONNECT, CARE and RESPOND. Empathy sometimes feels like one of those hard-to-define words - like culture. You're not quite sure what it actually means and what should you be doing. 

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Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors. While American culture might be socializing people into becoming more individualistic rather than empathic, research has uncovered the existence of "mirror neurons," which react to emotions expressed by others and then reproduce them.