EMPATHY

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EMPATHY

• Building Character
• The Academy of Irving ISD

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FOCUS ON EMPATHY

• Understanding
• Compassion
• Charity
• Sensitivity
• Concern

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You cant understand another person until you
walk a few miles in their moccasins.

• Native American proverb

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EMPATHY

• One step beyond service.
• Care for people.
• Serve others without knowing much about their
  thoughts and feelings.
• Sense, identify with, and understand the feelings
  of others.
• Shared communion.

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EMPATHY

• Relate to the needs of others.
• Dont change what others feel, but accept and
  share them.
• Compassion for others.
• Show charity kindness, benevolence, and
  goodwill.
• NOT the same as pity.

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With compassion, we see benevolently our own
human condition and the condition of our fellow
beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold
judgment.

• Christina Baldwin