Defining Empathy:
The Key to a Better World
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Title: Defining Empathy: The Key to a Better World.

1. 1. Introduction: The Importance of Empathy

      1. 1. Brief overview of empathy's role in human relationships and society

         2. Why understanding empathy matters in today's world

         3. Building an Empathy Movement

         4. empathy is a core value

         5. Empathy is a starting point

         6. Who am I?

         7. How do I feel about writing this book?
            
            
            
            

   2. Why is it important to have a clear definition?

      1. 1. Majority of disagreements come from different definitions and understandings. People talk past each other.

         2. if there was this much confusion in an operating room. we would have a lot of dead patients.

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   3. Defining Empathy in the Context of an Empathy Circle - the Wholistic Empathy Model

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      1. 1. Empathy

         2. Self-empathy

         3. Imaginative Edwin

         4. Wholistic Empathy Model

         5.  Empathy as a Way of Being

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   5.  Barriers to Empathy: How they are demonsrated in the Empathy Circle
      
      

   6. Other Definitions and How they map onto

      1. 1. Standard Definition

            1. Cognitive Empathy

            2. Emotional/Affective  Empathy

            3. Empathic Concern/Compassionate Empathy
               
               

   7. Other Concepts and  How they map onto The Way of Being

      1.  Emotion Contagion

      2. Empathic Accuracy

      3. Perspective-Taking

      4. Cognitive Empathy: Understanding others' perspectives through thought

      5. Emotional Empathy: Sharing and experiencing others' emotions

      6. Compassionate Empathy: Feeling others' emotions and taking action to help

      7. Theory of  Mind
         
         

   8. Building the Empathy Movement

      1. Personal

      2. Families

      3. School 

      4. Work

      5. Politics

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