Volunteering as Empathic Experience

Theresa OH Executive director

Vitamin for Citizen Inspiration. Volunteering for Values

More people are participating in volunteering.

21.4% | 8.3mil

It can never be enough to emphasize about the importance of volunteering.

“Volunteering is worthwhile. I love it!”

“I felt great about myself as I had become a special person to somebody else.“

“Volunteering has changed my life.”

How about their real life? Why satisfaction doesn’t bring changes in the real life?

Volunteering in Korea

• More focused on human services

– Korea has strong emotion for the vulnerables

– Tendency to separate from civic participation on issues

• Increased short-time, one-time volunteers

– Employee volunteers and student volunteers

– Too busy to be regular volunteers

• Self-framed evaluation

– Lack of understanding & empathy about social unfairness

Volunteering is not only to feel like being a good person.

Volunteering for True Changes of people

Individual motivation

Person

Good will

Social motivation

Citizen

Justice

Empathy

Empathy is feeling oneself

to be connected to others.

Empathic Experience

Empathy

Change of thought

Change of emotion

Change of action

Social awareness

Compassion

a cognitive empathic ability to see the world from a view of others

an emotional ability to resonate with others’ feeling.

Daniel GOLEMAN

Human spontaneity is originally based on altruism and advocacy.

Altruism and advocacy is important cause to bring voluntary participation of people.

KIM Kyong Dong

• Radical source for social change – Affective empathy: sharing

emotions

– Cognitive empathy: taking perspective others

• Empathy is “learned”.

• Mass empathy can change society

Roman KRZNARIC 13

Volunteering is good to practice social empathy

• Field to see and understand.

• People to learn from each other.

• Opportunity to have a reflection through volunteering.

How can we structuralize empathic moments

in volunteering?

Coordination of Volunteer Activity

Orientation

Opening

Activity

Action

Closing

Reflection

• Remind information about the activity

• Cautions and attitudes • Greetings and introduction • Ice breaking Support volunteers to join volunteering well

• Job allocation • Encouragement • Check amount of work • Wrap-up • Cleaning See if volunteers is doing well, and lead them to do so.

• Sharing the result • Compliment & Celebration

• Connecting to the issue –

Empathy on Issues

Share how well volunteers have participated.

“I will look for child care centers in my town.”

“What is this number? Please, guess it!”

45%! This is the relative poverty of senior households over 65 years old and the highest among OECD countries. Yet only 16.8% of whole welfare budget is used for the elderly. Why this issue is taken today is to think about the elderly problem. Pension and insurance system is getting better than before, but it is too much lack at the reality facing aging society. Why are the elderly so poor in developed country like Korea? Why are still there the poor elderly who are not supported enough? Will you think again about this problem when you are back home? And please also think if there is anything you can do for them and move in action.

Other Ideas for Empathy on Issues

19 Discussion

20 Discussion

23 Pledge card

24 Photo standing

Survey

Balance introspection with outrospection

in volunteering.

Volunteering as Empathic Experience

• Social Empathy to be inspired by participatory learning

• Social skills through team based activities and collaboration with local stakeholders

• Leadership through finding problems and solving them with people

Volunteering is not just to help others.

Volunteering is to live together in the community

as a voluntary citizen with empathic ability.

Thank you!

Theresa OH therys@hanmail.net, ohmytheresa@yahoo.com

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