Empathy, Ongoing and Growing
Thursday, August 6, 2015

The Blog Has Moved!

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The blog has moved to a new location! You can now find the blog here: http://www.empathysymbol.com/blog/
Friday, June 26, 2015

Are People Actually Bad at Empathy?

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The New York Times published an article by a psychologist named Paul Bloom, titled "Imagining the Lives of Others." In it, he rep...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Roll a Mile in Someone Else's Shoes

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An article in the Star Tribune by a student named Kate Ross is a reminder that the best way to experience empathy for another person is to ...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

The One-Fourth, Three-Fourths Empathy Symbol

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I'm glad people like the empathy symbol. But to be perfectly honest, perhaps sometimes it should be drawn with the line dividing the two...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

There but for the grace of fate go I

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Apparently, Scrooge is alive and well these days. He's not just a relic from Dickens' time, not just a character in a play we watch ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The Age of Empathy?

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My son Zack just shared this article with me. It's fascinating and thought-provoking, and highly recommended. It's called, Six Hab...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Chris Kluwe: Punter, Pundit and Empathy Promoter

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Chris Kluwe is the former Minnesota Vikings punter who became famous when he published an enraged response on Deadspin to a Maryland state ...
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Deb Ellsworth
I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was the oldest of 4. My dad, Dewaine, was a Lutheran minister. That made me a PK. My mom, Lois, was a homemaker. My dad was active in the Civil Rights Movement and was chaplain to Indoor Sports, a group for handicapped people. I was raised on the music of Pete Seeger. I grew up near Lake Minnetonka, which is a large lake maybe 10 miles west of Minneapolis. I am of half-Norwegian, half-German heritage, like most of the people who lived in my town. I attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. While in college, I was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement. One day, the idea for the empathy symbol popped, full-blown, into my head. I felt as if I had been given this, and was spiritually charged to spread it throughout the world. My husband, Mike, does the tech support for the empathy symbol website, for which I am most grateful. I am a teacher, a writer, a reader, a mother, a wife, a sister, an aunt, and a Destination ImagiNation Challenge Master.
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