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EMPATHY

As a citizen of the 21st century,
you should be able to

To be able to see the world through the eyes of others.
Emotionally connect with people, feel what others feel or share the feeling of others.
Understand what others feel or think and be aware of other people's needs and suffering.
Being compassionate, without assuming the suffering of others as if it were your own.
Respond affectively to the person experiencing some kind of situation.
Help those who suffer or feel motivated to do so and understand other people's pain.
Be generous, hospitable, sensitive, objective and tolerant.

Competence
Area

Skills

Ability to take the perspective of others
Ability to understand other’s experience and emotions
Ability to know what other feels
Ability to think about other’s mind content (theory of mind)
Ability to differentiate between oneself and the other’s emotional states (self-regulation of emotions)
Ability to recognize that all people experience hardship
Self-awareness
Mindfulness

Ability to feel what other feels (emotional simulation)
Being able to share another’s positive or negative emotions
Being able to respond affectively to another person
Ability to connect with those who are suffering
Ability to respond compassionately to someone’s distress
Ability to care and be concerned toward others who are in pain
Willingness to support those in need
Being able to avoid getting lost in others’ pain
Willingness to listen to and paying attention to others when they are suffering

Ability to evaluate your environment to identify aspects that foster or inhibit your creativity
Ability to modify your environment to prompt creativity
Ability to determine the strengths and weakness of the workgroup

Ability to connect and organize ideas, thoughts and feelings into unusual bonds and solutions
Ability to produce or design something original, unique, of high quality, novel, useful and appropriate

Sources: Based on a review of existing frameworks
(Decety & Jackson, 2004; Singer & Klimecki, 2014).

SKILLS IN ACTION

Brené Brown on Empathy

Empatía y alfabetización emocional, dos recetas para la infancia. Mary Gordon

Empathy

Qué es la empatía y cómo desarrollarla en los niños

Simon Sinek
Understanding Empathy

The power of empathy: Helen Riess

What is Empathy?

Cómo enseñar empatía a los niños. Boris Cyrulnik

Roman Krznaric - Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

RESOURCES

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