Empathic Skills Resources

• Empathy and Your Brain: an accessible overview of how mirror neurons work, as the foundations of our capacity to empathize.
  

• The Importance of Empathy: includes a brief explanation of mirror neurons and some tips on how to cultivate empathic connections.
  This video is fast-moving; be focussed and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what helps us grow our capacity for empathy.
  


• Radical Acceptance

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• The Power of Empathy: Dr. Helen Riess talks at TEDxMiddlebury about her research into the neuroscience of emotions and empathy.
  

• Compassionate Boundaries: an article by Carley Hauck on www.mindful.org"Anger is a feeling I had not given enough space for in my life. ...it ended up leaking out in ways that were hurtful to myself and others because I wasn’t allowing my anger to be here, when it justifiably showed up." This article outlines a useful approach to neutralise the harmful potential of anger and find an alternative expression that shows kindness for all those involved. Read it in full here.

• The iceberg-anger analogy:
  
  Through an empathetic approach towards people expressing anger, we can adopt the point of view that in fact their disruptive behaviour is symptomatic of some deeper pain, beneath the level of their awareness and too difficult to face. It can be extremely difficult to show empathy for people we encounter in a state of anger. And yet, when we find our way to that place in our hearts, it can be profoundly transformational, both for us and the other.
• Photo by SIMON LEE on Unsplash