What is empathy? What does it really mean? What does it look like?
Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most “negative” emotions, and opens startling new pathways into the depths of the soul. She is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (2010).
Karla has taught at such venues as the University of San Francisco, and the Omega Institute.
Last time Karla McLaren was here we talked about understanding the importance of your emotions and listening to what your emotions are here to tell you. In this interview, Karla talks about empathy
“Can you feel something if you don’t have a word for it?”
~ Karla McLaren, on How She Really Does It
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In this interview we discuss:
- link between words + emotions
- what is empathy
- good + bad emotions
- empathy versus martyrdom
- advice giving
- emotion practice
- what empathy looks like
- how can one develop skills for empathy
- Two takeaways – to practice empathy
“Empathy happens in the smallest, tiniest moments.”
~ Karla McLaren, on How She Really Does It
Mentioned in this Podcast
- Six Essential Aspects of Empathy, part 1
- Six Essential Aspects of Empathy, part 2
- The Art of Empathy
- The Language of Emotions
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