Recognize when you “otherize” someone – when you [erroneously] see them as some completely not connected to you. Then cast the world through their eyes. What are they experiencing? Log the entire experience on the dedicated website. What you think, what you feel, what you learn. Students often have a difficult time with this. Empathizing with someone doesn’t mean you agree with them, or think that they are right. It just means you see things (at least for a moment) how you think they are seeing them.
At the beginning of last year there was a new student that came to my high school. She was from New Mexico, and to my friends and I who had grown up in the SF Bay Area all of our … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention – Austin Gnecco” →
Coming from a smaller tourist-city, my buddies and I always had to go out of town to do anything fun. Something we did more often was go to the movies. I have always loved going to the movie theatre, because … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention – Joseph Donohue” →
I often find it very easy to otherize people as I can be quite reserved. Those that I am close with are those that mean the world to me, and it’s very easy to connect with them, however this makes … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention – Brandon Sassano” →
Last year, one of my friends and I were getting fed up with our other friends. We were getting annoyed with her and we started gossiping about her to each other. We over-amplified everything she said to us. She would … Continue reading “Amalia Dummett Self Intervention” →
Last weekend I was invited to perform with my band for a Halloween party. We had played a show the weekend prior and it went very well so I was excited to perform again. Unfortunately one of the members in … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention – Michael Cipolletti” →
Over the past summer I had the opportunity to work at my local “Cold Stone”, an Ice Cream Creamery. Given that our location required us workers to do tricks with our ice cream when mixing it, or sing while serving, … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention – Evan Brees” →
I have been lifeguarding at the same community pool since I was a freshman in high school. This means that I have a lot of experience and know almost entirely how the system is supposed to work and all the … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention- Jake Huff” →
Where I am from, their was always this elderly women who was in a wheelchair who would sit outside this restaurant every night and ask for money. I was always curious how she got there and why no one was … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention- John Langton” →
In high school I would always go out with friends and would rarely tell my mom. She would get mad and that would annoy me. I didn’t understand why she needed to know where I was 24/7. I thought she … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention – Nathan Ho” →
The time that I “otherized” somebody else was a few years ago when my younger brother confronted me insisting that it was his turn for the xbox. In the midst of a fun game with my friends, I found this … Continue reading “Empathy Intervention- Will Halvorsen” →