Empathy Lessons

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• Interview by Edwin Rutsch with Lou Agosta on Building a Culture of Empathy, the Video

  By Lou Agosta on May 27, 2013

  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 ›

• A Rumor of Empathy in the Struggle Against Domestic Violence (Update: 2014-03-21)

  By Lou Agosta on May 15, 2013

  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

  By Lou Agosta on May 8, 2013

  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

  By Lou Agosta on May 6, 2013

  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)

  By Lou Agosta on April 28, 2013 • ( 1 )

  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

  By Lou Agosta on April 21, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  “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

  By Lou Agosta on February 25, 2013 • ( 2 )

  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

  By Lou Agosta on February 12, 2013

  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

  By Lou Agosta on December 21, 2012

  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

  By Lou Agosta on June 7, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  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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