Defining Wholistic Empathy
A Way of Being for a Better World
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Project Description 

This is a project website for developing Edwin's Wholistic Empathy Definition Model. We are just starting on this project and use this website to organize the project. 

Introduction

Over the past 15 years I have come to recognize that mutual empathy is a fundamental human quality and value. It has the power to address many of the personal, social, cultural, and political challenges facing our world today and create greater wellbeing for all. It's many, benefits include; an effective way of knowing, fostering more emotionally grounded and healthy individuals, having better relationships, improves communication, increased cooperation and team work, enhances leadership skills, essential ingredient for effective conflict resolution, is needed for improved problem-solving, creativity and innovation, etc.

By Empathy, I basically mean a whole-body listening—deeply sensing into, understanding, and connecting with each other's experiences. This leads to a recognition of our shared humanity. (At a deeper level it is how we sense into life.)

I believe we must build the movement to elevate empathy in society. This is to foster mutual empathy as a core cultural value. By cultivating empathy on a societal level, we lay the foundation for deeper understanding, cooperation, and collective well-being. The first step in solving the world’s problems is to truly listen to and understand one another.

Empathy Definition Confusion
A major obstacle to developing an Empathy Movement is the widespread confusion about what empathy actually means. People are constantly talking past one another because they mean different things when they use the word empathy. This lack of clarity hinders our ability to advance the cause. To address this, we must establish clear and precise definitions.

Through this project, we aim to develop the Wholistic Empathy Definition Model, which will bring greater clarity to the concept of empathy and support the growth of the Empathy Movement.


What Makes The Wholistic Empathy Model Unique?

This model has several aspects that make it unique from other current definition models. This model...


Project Methodology

This definition project is unique in that we use a highly empathic approach to work on exploring and articulating the definitions. We use the Empathy Circle practice to discuss the definitions issues.  We are also mapping the definition to the experience of the Empathy Circle.  This allows people to experience the definition aspects by taking part in an Empathy Circle.