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EMPATHY
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An Athlete…
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Smart and make A’s or B’s on everything…
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Someone who has failed in school …
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The Oldest Sibling…
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The Middle Child…
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Empathy Definition
The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing feelings, thoughts, opinions, and/or experience of another person.
What Empathy Looks Like…• Experiencing feelings and emotions that
match those of another person• Sharing in the same experiences or going
through similar situations• Feeling a concern for other people that
creates a desire to want to help them• Supportive and caring, regardless of your
opinions or beliefs
Empathy in Relationships
• Encourages open and honest communication without the fear of being judged or ridiculed
• Allows people to truly and deeply understand one another and their feelings/emotions
• Encourages a person to be who they really are• Helps prevent emotional problems • Helps to develop a sense of trust and honesty
in the relationship
4 Steps to Empathy1. Listen Intently.2. Identify the other person’s feeling(s).3. Accept their feeling(s).4. Verbalize their feeling(s).
Empathetic Statements• Acknowledge/restate the other person’s feelings
and why they are feeling that way.• Offer supportive help or guidance. (this is not
the same as giving advice or “fixing the problem”)
• Reassure the person that they can do something or overcome an obstacle that they are facing.
Empathetic Situations and Your Response
• Get in groups of 2 or 3• Read over the situations and come up with
empathetic responses for each of them. Make sure you include the 3 main parts of empathetic statements for each response.
• All group members need to be involved in the statement making process.
• This will be taken for a quiz grade.
