Empathy Matters | Preventing the Selfie Absorbed
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English - October 28, 2015 07:00 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsCourses Education Business Careers classroom tools administration counselor development education highereducation k12 motivation principal Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The root of kindness is empathy. It gives kindness the fuel it needs to be acted out. It’s important to help students by giving them the voice and choice they need to express empathy. Energetic author Barbara Gruener shares her tips and practical ideas to weave empathy into the lives of young people and gives important advice regarding how we can express empathy for ourselves too. Empathy works so spread it like confetti!
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About today’s guest
Barbara Gruener is an author, speaker, school counselor and character coach at Bales Intermediate in Friendswood, Texas. With 32 years of experience she has worked with every grade level, pre K-12th. Author of the “The Corner on Character” blog and the book, “What’s Under Your Cape? Superheroes of the Character Kind,” Barbara enjoys positively influencing change through her counseling, keynotes and workshops.
Recommended Resource(s):
What’s Under your Cape? Superheroes of the character kind, by Barbara Gruener
Those Shoes, by Maribeth Boelts
The Sandal Artist, by Kathleen T. Pelley
Dr. Michele Borba: http://micheleborba.com/blog/tag/empathy/
Mary Gordon elevates empathy using babies: rootsofempathy.org
Sesame Street Empathy Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1Rt1R4xbM
Kid President's SOCKtober: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1YIK5UOnOM
Knit For Service club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR8A8f90ufU
Guest Links:
Twittter: @BarbaraGruener
Elevating Empathy Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/bgruener/elevating-empathy/
Blog: corneroncharacter.com
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