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Actually a page on Facebook. EMPATHY POLITICS: Raising awareness of need for empathy. Exploring innovative ways (including quantum physics!) to bring greater empathy into politics.
An exploration of empathic conversation - with others, with work, with play.
Pete, an alligator who thinks that he is a flamingo, worries when he begins to notice the differences between him and his flamingo friends. Then Pete discovers he's not just another flamingo—and he learns what it means to fit in with friends
Copied from Karla McLaren's website:
What if there were a single skill that could directly and radically improve your relationships and your emotional life? Empathy, teaches Karla McLaren, is that skill.
by the way, it's my favourite movie, because it shows with humor the connections of the universe.
it's possible "to wear the characters' shoes" while they try to find and to tell people their concepts about universe and life. and it's what I believe most in life.
It shows why empathy matters everywhere from the nursery to the economy and features programs like Roots of Empathy. It looks at how empathy works in the brain and why some types of autism may not result from too little empathy— but too much.
The beauty of this book is that it conveys the deep message and practice of mindfulness without ever naming it or making it into some big intellectual thing.