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Empathy: A Conscious Effort

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

EMPATHY:

A CONSCIOUS EFFORT
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OUTLINE

  • Why empathy?
  • What is empathy?
  • Practical Application
  • Benefits/Limitations
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WHY EMPATHY?

WRITERS WHO DISPLAY:

  • Anxiety
  • Self-doubt
  • Negative cognition
  • Procrastination
  • (Murphy 14)
(Murphy 14)
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OUR ROLE:

  • supportive/affective
  • instructional
  • (Murphy 13)
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EMPATHY IS...

  • Simulating writers psychological state
  • Maintaining clear self-other differentiation
  • Seeing through the writer's eyes
  • Expressing our understanding of all of the above to the writer
  • (Coplan 58); (Carl Rogers qtd. in Frankel 207)

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

PREPARE AND COMMUNICATE

PREPARE

UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REAGRD AND PERSPECTIVE
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PERSPECTIVE

  • Self-Oriented:
  • .....imagining if you were going through the experience
  • Other-Oriented:
  • .....imagining if you were the writer going through the experience
  • (Coplan 57-58)
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UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD IS...

  • Understand that people have intrinsic value
  • .....regardless of their words or actions
  • Have genuine concern/care for the writer
  • Have a desire to help
  • (Murphy 14)
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COMMUNICATE

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SOFTEN

SMILE - OPEN POSTURE - FOWARD LEAN - TAKE NOTES - EYE CONTACT - NOD
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EMPATHETIC LISTENING

  • Be present
  • Resist distraction
  • Be aware of verbal/nonverbal queues
  • Be empathetic towards writer's thoughts and feelings
  • (Cuny 80-81)
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VERBAL IMMEDIACY

  • Use the writer's name ( pronounce it right!)
  • Encourage and praise
  • Inclusive language
  • Vocal variety
  • (Cuny 80)
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BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS

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BENEFITS

  • Shows the writer their own personal narrative
  • Makes them more accepting of their own experiences
  • More creative, adaptive, and expressive
  • Self respect transfers to the academy
  • (Frankel 207); (Murphy 16); (Wingate 11)
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LIMITATIONS

  • Time
  • Emotional burn-out

END

ASHLEY FRANCOIS, BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
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WORKS CITED

  • Coplan, Amy. "Will the Real Empathy..." The Southern Journal of Philosophy. (2011). 40-65.
  • Cuny, Kimberly. "Unconditional Positive Regard..." Int. Journal of LIstening 26 (2012). 79-82.
  • Frankel, Markel. "How Nondirective Therapy Directs..." ...Experiential Psychotherapy 11.3 (2012) 205-214.
  • Murphy, Christina. "Freud in the Writing Center..." Writing Center Journal 10.1 (1989) 13-19.
  • Wingate, Molly. "Writing Center as Sites..." Writing Center Journal 21.2 (2001) 7-20.
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