Communicating EffectivelyCreating connection

Empathy vs. Sympathy

5 minutes

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Key takeaways:

Empathy fuels connections and sympathy drives disconnection.

There are four qualities to empathy – perspective taking, staying out of judgement, recognising emotion in others and then communicating that. It is feeling with people.

Empathy is a choice.

Rarely can a response make something better, what makes something better is the connection.

Source

Psihoterapeut, D, S. (2013). Brené Brown on Empathy vs Sympathy. Diana Simon Psihoterapeut. https://youtu.be/KZBTYViDPlQ2

Diana Simon Psihoterapeut