[RESOURCE] Empathy vs. Sympathy with Brene Brown
A great video to share with staff as we start a new school year filled with change, challenges, and the potential for transformation. Staff and students are stressed. Connection and empathy are going to be our super powers this school year.
[0:15] Empathy fuels connection.
[0:17] Sympathy drives disconnection
[0:30] 4 qualities of empathy
[1:00-2:30] Examples that show how empathy and sympathy are different.
Soul Pancake researched the effects of sympathy vs. empathy and on average people who received sympathy were less happy than people (happiness dropped by -6.71%) who received empathy (happiness increased by +6.92%). What is the different between sympathy and empathy? Empathy fuels connection while sympathy drives disconnection.
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