Ed Kirwan: The Most Effective Way to Build Empathy
What if empathy wasn’t something we talked about, but something we actually trained, practiced, and scaled?
My guest today, Ed Kirwan, is doing exactly that. Ed is the CEO and Founder of Empathy Studios, a creative education organization using the power of film to develop empathy as a real, learnable skill. He’s also the founder of Empathy Week, now the world’s largest empathy festival for schools, reaching more than 1.8 million students across 56 countries since 2020.
In this conversation, we explore why film is such a powerful catalyst for empathy, what Ed has learned from years of working…
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