Presents familiar situations and helpful hints on how to better understand and care about the feelings of another.

"MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world....

What happens when one child chooses kindness to start the day? It starts a chain reaction! Watch kindness (empathy) ripple through the community... Spreading happiness like sunshine, connecting diverse groups like a footbridge, and lifting hope like a kite string. How can you lift others with kindness?

"Empathy is the ability to perceive and imagine the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of others. It is a powerful social tool that helps us connect with others and act with compassion and morality. This book guides readers through strategies for identifying and understanding the emotions of others. Ways of expressing empathy are explored through real-life examples and primary sources. Descriptions of familiar situations encourage readers to seize...

Ed has been commissioned to make a documentary against animal cruelty, but he's completely oblivious to the animal rights community. In order to make this film, he'll have to convince himself it's a worthy cause. His work on the documentary and his conversations with Jenny, a member of the animal-rights foundation that's commissioning the film, clash with his immediate surroundings: his family, friends and crew. To overcome these new conflicting interests,...

"A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion. Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking, even as pundits argue over whether we should bother empathizing with our political opposites at all. Meanwhile, we are inundated with the buzzily termed "empathic...

"Grant Golliher is what some would call a horse whisperer, able to get a wild horse to calmly accept a saddle and a rider without the use of force. Through training thousands of horses, many traumatized or abused, Golliher was able to learn essential lessons about communication, boundaries, fairness, trust, and respect -- lessons that apply not just to horses but to humans as well. It's why celebrities, Fortune 500 executives, professional coaches,...

The ability to empathize is a huge predictor of emotional intelligence. Develop your empathy to build strong relationships. Learn how the ability to empathize is a huge predictor of emotional intelligence, and how you can develop your empathy to build strong relationships. Learn more tools and techniques that boost your leadership and management skills by visiting the full version of the course, Developing Your Emotional Intelligence, on LinkedIn...

Develop and practice empathy at work. Learn how to embrace others' experiences and perspectives to be more human at the office. Many people assume that empathy is about being there when someone is going through a rough patch. But empathy involves more than just offering comfort. It's really about understanding and embracing others while remaining self-aware. In this course, Dr. Carolyn Goerner digs into the subject of empathy, explaining what it...