Book Outline

Who am I and why do I care so much about this topic?

Ending with the big inspirational uplift

Introduction: The Importance of Empathy

1. 1. What are you going to get from the book?

      1. 1. Stay to the end to See how you can help build the empathy movement

   2. What problem is it going to solve?

      1. 1. There is a better way to understand empathy. It is more accurate with experience and can be used functionally to improve your life

   3. What questions is it going to answer?

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   4. What methodology is it going to reveal?

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   5. What am I going to do in this book?

      1. 1. give a new model for understanding empathy

         2. ground the definition in the personal experience of the empathy circle.

         3. Show how holistic empathy is the foundation for a better world

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The most common definition.

• • Affective, cognitive and compassionate 

  • this is very academic terms

  • based on the feeling v reason dichotomy.

Call To Action

Personal Exercises

• try out the empathy circle. 

• Join a book study group

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More

• sign up for Empathy Circle

• sign up for Newsletter

• sign up for Workshop

• sign up for Empathy Tent 

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This book is unique because

• • • gives a plan for building an empathy base society.

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Objection Handling - what are peoples objections

• We shouldn't define our terms

• This is not empathic

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Tell some stories.

Introduction: The Importance of Empathy

1. 1. 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?

The current thinking, path and models are not correct for the definition of Empathy

• the current definition models create more confusion and are not practical.

• the general consensus has problems.

• Based on a Feeling versus Reason dicodimy

Why is it important to have a clear definition?

1. 1. 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.

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

1. 1. 1. 1. Empathy

         2. Self-empathy

         3. Imaginative Edwin

         4. Wholistic Empathy Model

         5.  Empathy as a Way of Being

Barriers to Empathy: How they are demonstrated in the Empathy Circle

Other Definitions and How they map onto

1. 1. 1. 1. Standard Definition

            1. Cognitive Empathy

            2. Emotional/Affective  Empathy

            3. Empathic Concern/Compassionate Empathy
               
               

   2. 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
         
         

   3. Building the Empathy Movement

      1. Personal

      2. Families

      3. School 

      4. Work

      5. Politics

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Notes

• Why is it better?