2022-06-13

Shannon Meeting

• Elections

• Want to focus on Definition, Course and Nonprofit.

• Definition Course

  • Get more people involved.

Notes on Defining Empathy Draft Article

Review 

Good to start getting it down on paper. Gives us something to work with.

There are multiple definitions of empathy.

I see it as a new definition model.  

• Current definitions are variations of Affective/ Cognitive/ Concern Empathy

  • Problems with this model?

• Empathy/Self Empathy/ Imaginative Empathy/ Relational Empathy 

  • Foundation is Carl Rogers.

• Defining Empathy in the context of the Empathy Circle.

Edwin - co-developer of the Empathy Circle.

Against Empathy - wouldn’t focus on this

• Rather lay out our definition first then compare it to other models.

•  Davis (1980) called personal distress empathy. Wouldn’t it be an emotional contagion.. Taking on the feeling state of the other person?  

  • As an example, 

    • if the client of a therapist is angry, the therapist would get angry

    • if the client of a therapist is angry, the therapist would get angry

    • If a person shares with another friend and is angry, the friend would get angry

    • If a person shares with another friend and is sad, the friend would be sad

Ones own history

Defining Empathy in the Context of the group level -  Empathy Circle.

We used Dyadic Empathic Listening but not the full Empathy Circle for the discussion.

Empathy can be defined from different perspectives.

• Individual

• Dyad 

  • Therapeutic - 

  • Relationship - 

• Group.

Ongoing Ebb and flow of feelings.