Edwin Rutsch, Founder and Director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy (www.CultureOfEmpathy.com), does an on camera interview with Lou Agosta, discussing issues and variables on the critical path to building a culture of empathy. No one said… Read More ›
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A Rumor of Empathy in the Struggle Against Domestic Violence (Update: 2014-03-21)
Here is a sixteen minute educational video produced and edited by yours truly featuring Serena Low, Executive Director of Apna Ghar (“Our Home”) which operates a shelter and crisis hot line for women in Chicago. She nets out a forty… Read More ›
Heidegger’s Special Hermeneutic of Empathy in Being and Time…the Movie
This educational video includes a presentation by Lou Agosta on Heidegger’s call for a special hermeneutic of empathy in Heidegger’s book Being and Time. The different aspects of such a Heideggerian inquiry into and definition of empathy are spelled out… Read More ›
A Rumor of Empathy in Higher Education, the Movie
This educational video contains an interview with Ron Kimberling about the changes occurring in higher education with the success of tax paying private schools that are expanding practical, career-oriented education, learning, and training. Ron speaks movingly of his own autobiographical… Read More ›
A Rumor of Empathy…in Psychology (the movie)
This educational video explores empathy in the listening and speaking of the community of psychologists, psychotherapists, and those committed to emotional and human well-being. That about covers it. Where is empathy present and where is it missing? Should one expect… Read More ›
A Rumor of Empathy…from Tuskegee to “Mud and Squalor”…the Movie
“Mud and Squalor” is the nickname of the US Army Air Corps base out of which in 1943 David James and his mentor, Carroll Langston, flew P-51 single engine, pursuit aircraft during World War II. Mr. James talks about his… Read More ›
A Rumor of Empathy at Apna Ghar in the Fight Against Gender Violence …. the Movie
This is an on camera interview with Serena Low, Executive Director, Apna Ghar (“Our Home”), captured on December 13, 2012. Apna Ghar (“Our Home”) operates a Hot Line and Shelter for women who are dealing with domestic abuse, intimate partner… Read More ›
Lessons Learned: Intimate Partner Violence Training
This is what I learned in a 40-hour training on how to combat domestic violence (DW) delivered by the community organization Apna Ghar. “Apna Ghar” is Hindu / Urdu meaning “Our Home”. (See http://www.ApnaGhar.org.) I should issue all the necessary… Read More ›
Making Sense out of the Senseless . . . in Newtown
I am sick at heart. Coming at the same time of the Christmas story, events raise the deeply unsettling specter of King Herod’s slaughter of the innocents, which sent Mary and Joseph in flight to Egypt. We are all in… Read More ›
The Other Within: the Stigma of Mental Illness Raises the Bar on Empathy
In thinking about the stigma of mental illness I saw in a flash that the stigma is due to discovering the Other within coming at me in the form of another person from without. On a bad day it can… Read More ›
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