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International Empathy Conference

Date

Fri - Sun, 4. - 6. October 2024
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Time

All day

Location

Online

Empathy is an expanding field of interest, encompassing research, development, and application across various domains. Coined in its current meaning in 1951, empathy represents a new human capacity that is still in its infancy and evolving. Conscious empathy is rapidly becoming both an ideal and an essential skill globally.

Join us for the International Empathy Conference at Skola Empatie! Explore how empathy is shaping the future of human evolution with 10 expert speakers. This unique empathy-focused event will uncover the importance of empathy in various fields, offering valuable insights and practical strategies for implementing empathy in today’s world. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding and be part of the conversation at the forefront of global change.

Joanna Jaaniste, PhD

Joanna Jaaniste has 31 years experience as a dramatherapist. She is an Adjunct Fellow of Western Sydney University where she has worked for many years in various capacities with the students on the Master of Art Therapy course.

She teaches on the Master of Creative Arts Therapy course at the University of Melbourne and has a small private practice. Joanna has co-created a dramatherapy Graduate Diploma curriculum for IKON Australia. She worked for 20 years in the mental health sector and also with addiction and adolescents at risk and now gives supervision to other arts therapists. Joanna is passionate about the ability of art and dramatherapy to help people in a trauma-informed way to celebrate new ways of being, to grieve past losses and to work creatively with any present issues. Joanna has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, giving presentations at conferences and training courses around the world, especially in her home country of Australia. In 2023 she published a book suitable for counsellors and creative arts therapists on her work with people with dementia.

Leanne Butterworth

Leanne Butterworth is an empathy educator, TEDx speaker, author and university lecturer. As founder of social enterprise Empathy First, she is dedicated to developing happier, healthier, more connected workplaces and communities through memorable,

accessible Empathy Training. Leanne holds a degree in Exercise Physiology (UQ) and a postgraduate certificate in Business (Nonprofit and Philanthropy – QUT). Her accolades include a George Alexander Foundation Scholarship, membership in the Australian Social Impact Fellowship, recognition by His Royal Highness, the Duke of York, and winner of the 2023 Women Changing the World People’s Choice Social Enterprise Award. She is also a contributing author in the upcoming anthology Women Making a Difference.

Rainbow Rosenbloom

Rainbow Rosenbloom founded Live Education! in the fall of 1997, after 12 years of working with homeschooling families and co-ops, both privately and within the public schools. He studied Waldorf Education at Emerson College in England and

worked as a class teacher and a high school teacher in several Waldorf schools. Rainbow also helped to construct an innovative Waldorf charter school program in Monterey, CA and served as its director for 3 years. He has a BA in Philosophy from The University of Tulsa and a Masters degree in Education from Harvard, where he studied Multiple Intelligence Theory with Howard Gardner.

Edwin Rutsch

Edwin Rutsch is the founding director of The Empathy Center. The Center is developing an empathy based retreat center on a former Catholic Seminary property located on 35 acres with 55,000 square feet of buildings overlooking beautiful Santa

Barbara, California and the ocean. The Centers mission is to build a movement to raise the level of mutual empathy in the world through education and community initiatives. Edwin has been working on this mission for the past 15 years. A few of his projects include; creating the internet’s largest empathy related website, interviewing hundreds of world empathy experts, hosting Empathy Summits, and developing Empathy building practices and trainings. He also started the Empathy Tent which goes out to public spaces and offers listening and conflict resolution. Edwin hopes to inspire you to join this movement and transform the world.

Anne Bass

Born in America, Anne moved to live and work in the UK and found her way to a Camphill community for children with special needs, where she embarked on the Foundation year in Curative Education, and worked in a curative setting with adolescents.

Later, Anne completed her kindergarten training and worked as a teacher in the Edinburgh Steiner School Kindergarten. After having her last of 3 children turn 3 years, Anne joined the training in Psychophonetics with the wish to support others on a path of self-development.
Anne has a special interest in working with parents, and with adolescents and children, which is enhanced and enriched by her experience as a counsellor, qualifying in 2013 as a Psychophonetics Practitioner. This has been complemented in recent years by training and qualification as a Sensory Integration Screener with the HANDLE Institute. Alongside counselling I currently run parent and child groups in Stroud, England.

Katherine Train PhD

Katherine Train is co-founder, trainer and facilitator at Empathic Intervision.
With a background in pharmacy practice, she completed her PhD as a foundation for empathy practice in organisations within and across sectors.

She works with empathy as an essential skill in professional development, wellbeing, design and prevention of compassion fatigue and burnout in the corporate, NGO and public sector.These skills are applied to leadership, teamwork, diversity, tolerance and ethical decision making. Her special interest has been in the application of empathy in organizations in South Africa during a time when South Africa is emerging as a democracy with all the challenges and opportunities that go with its cultural, social and resource diversity.

Mick Young is an Australian born spiritual development coach and counsellor specialising in bereavement and grief from an Anthroposophical perspective. He is the creator of the Staying Connected Program which helps people develop

their connection with loved ones who have died as part of their healing. He is a long time student of Rudolf Steiner’s work and studied at the Seminary of the Christian Community in Hamburg, Germany. He now lives in Devon, UK with his wife and two children.

Yehuda Tagar

Yehuda Tagar is an international practitioner and trainer of counselling and psychotherapy, founder of Psychophonetics, a development of Rudolf Steiner’s Psychosophy, and of Methodical Empathy. He is the director of Psychophonetics Institute

International in Slovakia, UK, South Africa and China.

Jana Múdra is a Psychophonetics counsellor and consultant, co-teacher in Škola Empatie, Slovakia. For more than 20 years she has worked in education of children and adults using blocks in empathy as opportunitoes for personal and professional

development. In the past 10 years she has benefited from the beauty and efficiency of Psychophonetics and drama in her life and career.

Psychologist, graduate of psychotherapeutic training in family therapy according to V. Satirova and Waldorf pedagogy.

  • All times are CEST / UTC+2
  • Structure: 45min lecture + 15min Q&A
  • 18:00-20:00 – Opening of the conference
  • 9:00-9:15 – Welcome
  • 9:15-10:15 – Yehuda Tagar – Empathy is the cutting edge of evolution in the 21st century
  • 10:30-11:30 – Katherine Train – Opportunities for empathy in human-centred design in organisations
  • 11:45-12:45 – Mick Young – Hidden aspects of bereavement counselling
  • 15:00-16:00 – Jana Múdra – Drama as a Powerful Tool for Empathy
  • 16:15-17:15 – Edwin Rutsch – Empathy Circles: The Foundational Practice of the Empathy Movement
  • 17:00-18:00 – Yehuda Tagar – moderated discussion
  • 9:00-9:15 – Welcome
  • 9:15-10:15 – Joanna Jaaniste – Empathic response in dementia: A journey alongside Anthroposophia
  • 10:30-11:30 – Leanne Butterworth – The practical application and benefits of healthy empathy within a business context
  • 11:45-12:45 – Anne Bass – Seeing, Hearing, and Knowing the World through Imitation Empathy and the young child-the challenge and potential in education
  • 15:00-16:00 – Martina Mózsi – Partners intimacy
  • 16:15-17:15 – Rainbow Rosenbloom – Radical Empathy Emptying yourself to provide space for others
  • 17:00-18:00 – Conclusion of the Conference
  • Date: 4th-6th October 2024
  • Language: English
  • Venue: Online
  • Public – 60 €
  • IAPP members and students of School of Empathy – 40 €
  • Overseas participation (1/2 day attendance) – 40 €
  • Contributors – free of charge

Looking forward to meeting you!

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60 €

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The School of Empathy
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+421 910 926 450
Email
info@skolaempatie.sk