What Is Empathy? (Karla McLaren's Six Essential Components) [2018]

This video defines the concept of empathy and describes its six essential components. The main ideas are from Karla McLaren’s excellent book The Art of Empathy.

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Empathy is one of the most important communication skills. In many ways, all other communication skills depend on empathy. But what is it? What is the difference between empathy and compassion? Is empathy only about feeling other people's emotions? Empathy and sympathy? How much of empathy is about feelings and how much about thoughts? What does emotional regulation have to do with empathy? What is empathic accuracy?

I cover all these issues and more in this video.

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