DEVELOPING CONCERNS

FOR OTHERS
INTRODUCTION
Michael Jackson popularized the song "Heal the World" and some lines run like
this:

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough for the living

Make it a better place

For you and for me....

The world needs people who are willing to help their fellowmen and heal the
world especially in this time of the pandemic. Imagine a world without Mother
Teresa, St. Francis of Assisi, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Efren
Peñafiorida, Jr., Randy Halasan, and so many others. Imagine a world without the
front liners, during pandemic. Imagine a world without individuals who risked
their own lives to save others during wartime. Imagine a world without those
who’ve run into burning buildings or executed other heroic feats of rescue during
times of trauma.
 EMPATHY AND COMPASSION
 Empathy and Compassion are very “in” concept as the world becomes more
and more technologically advanced. People may have the tendency to engage
in solitary activities and be highly individualistic. These are not things of the
past, instead they are relevant in modern everyday life.
EMPATHY
 EMPATHY
 EMPATHY is at the heart of what it means to be HUMAN.
 The concept of empathy is used to refer to a wide range of psychological capacities that
are thought of as being central for constituting humans as social creatures allowing us to
know what other people are thinking and feeling, to engage with them emotionally, to
share their thoughts and feelings and to care for their well-being.
 Empathy is, therefore a broad concept that refers to the cognitive and emotional reactions
of an individual to the observed experiences of another.
 It is the ability to recognize, understand, and share the thoughts and feelings of another
person, animal or fictional character.
 In the Philippine setting, it can be roughly translated to pakikiramdam.
 THREE KINDS OF EMPATHY
 There are three kinds of empathy according to the Daniel Goleman’s article entitled “Three
Kinds of Empathy”

1. Cognitive Empathy – this is simply knowing how the persons feels and
what they might be thinking. Sometimes called perspective-taking, this kind of empathy can help
in, say, a negotiation or in motivating people.
- Cognitive Empathy, also known as empathic accuracy, involves having more complete
and accurate knowledge about the contents of another person’s mind, including how the person
feels.
 THREE KINDS OF EMPATHY

2. Emotional Empathy – This happens when the person feels physically

along with the other person, as though their emotions were contagious.
- Emotional empathy makes someone well-attuned to another person’s inner emotional
world, a plus in any of a wide range of callings, from sales to nursing, for any parent or lover.

Emotional empathy includes three components:

A.) The first is feeling the same emotion as another person;
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B.) The second is personal distress which refers to one’s own feelings of distress in
response to perceiving another’s plight;

C.) The third emotional component is feeling compassion for another person.

3. Compassionate Empathy – With this kind of empathy we not only

understand a person’s predicament and feel with them, but are spontaneously moved to help, if
needed.
PARENTS RAISING CHILDREN WITH EMPATHY

 The following are five guideposts based on research and the wisdom of
practitioners from the Making Caring, Common Project of Harvard University
Graduate School of Education

1. Empathize with your child and model empathy for others

2. Make caring for others a priority and set high ethical expectations
3. Provide opportunities for children to practice empathy
4. Expand your child’s circle of concern
5. Help children develop self-control and manage feelings effectively
TEACHERS RAISING CHILDREN WITH EMPATHY

 The Making Caring Common project of Harvard University Graduate School

of Education likewise came up with research-based strategies to help educators
promote a culture of empathy within their schools.
Five Essential Steps to use in Schools
1. Model Empathy
2. Teach what empathy is and why it matters
3. Practice
4. Set clear expectations
5. Makes school culture and climate a priority
 HOW DO WE DEVELOP SYMPATHY?

 There are two theories which neuroscientists explore to ex-

plain empathy.

1.) Stimulation Theory – this theory process that empathy is possible because when we see
another person experiencing an emotion, we ‘stimulate’ or represent that same emotion in
ourselves so we can know firsthand what it feels like.

2.)Theory of mind – this theory is the ability to “understand what another person is thinking
and feeling based on rules for how one should think or feel.”
COMPASSION
 COMPASSION
 “ If you want to know what compassion is, look into the eyes of a mother and
father as they cradle their sick and fevered child.” It was previously mentioned
that when children develop empathy this can lead to compassion. When you
sympathize, you understand what the other person is feeling without exactly
feeling it but when you empathize you feel what the other person is feeling.

 COMPASSION is a relational process that involves noticing

another person’s pain, experiencing and emotional reaction to his or
her pain, and acting in some way to help ease or alleviate the pain.