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A Rumor of Empathy with Lou Agosta
Dedicated to expanding empathy in the individual and the community. The empathy lessons extend from a light-hearted look to a deep dive into critical issues and controversies on empathy in authentic human relations. This podcast dedicated to the commitment that empathy be less of a rumor and more of a reality in the community!
Episodes
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy and Boundary Setting
Agenda: *Get your power back through empathy* *The one minute empathy training (no kidding!) *Hard empathy vs soft empathy - meaning? *Establish and maintain…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy: Spa Treatment for the Soul (Part 3)
This podcast wraps up the series on empathy as a spa treatment for the soul by connecting the dots between stress and inflammation - and the inflammation…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy: Spa Treatment for the Soul (Part 1)
A small set of practices such as receiving empathy, meditation (mindfulness), Yoga, and Tai Chi Chuan, promote recovery and well-being in reducing…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaTake the other person as your empathy trainer (Empathy Lesson)
As an exercise, consider that the other person is one’s empathy trainer. The other individual calls forth one’s empathy. If the Other behaves in a challenging…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaHard empathy is different than "Empathy is hard"
The innovation proposed here is to think of empathy, like so many things these days, as existing on a spectrum between empathy as “empathic listening” and…
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Empathy SELLS - but empathy's limitations sell even better! Find out what's going on with the anti-empathy movement and how to answer and debunk the dangerous half truths, lies, and total nonsense.
One can always make a splash by throwing a rotten tomato, and the would-be critique of empathy uncharitably takes the weakest version of empathy and refutes…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe empathic dozen: Top twelve (12) empathy lessons
Start with the one minute empathy trainin:g Drive out aggression, hostility, bullying, prejudice of all kinds, dignity violations, hypocrisy, making excuses…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaSuicidal empathy
Does empathy make you so kind that you do suicidally foolish things? From the perspective of empathy, one has to advance from standard empathy to radical…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaRadical Empathy and the Trolley Car Dilemma - between a rock and a hard place (Part Two: Concluded)
Standard empathy gets stretched to its LIMIT in the face of confronting physical and moral trauma, succumbing to compassion fatigue, burn out, and empathic…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaRadical empathy and the Trolley Car Dilemma - between a rock and a hard place!/
What the heck is the Trolley Car Dilemma (TCD) - and how does it relate to Radical Empathy? The TCD is a thought experiment - an intuition pump (to use Daniel…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaRadical empathy: a short talk on trauma and radical empathy
When standard empathy breaks down in the face of extreme situations such as trauma, conformity to the faceless unempathic bureaucracy, compassion fatigue…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaRadical Empathy in Extreme Situations
This podcast engages with radical empathy in extreme situations. Extreme situations are traumatic ones. Radical empathy challenges standard empathy to take…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaRadical empathy - what it is, an example of radical empathy, and how radical empathy differs from standard empathy
The podcast engages the difference between standard empathy and radical empathy. When standard empathy breaks down, fails, goes off the rails, in the face of…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaInterview with Rob Volpe about his empathy book: Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation at a Time
Lou Agosta in conversation with Rob Volpe, CEO and Chief Catalyst, Ignite 360, about Rob's book on empathy: Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaTransference and Empathy: Where Transference Was, Empathy Shall Be!
It a useful and powerful oversimplification that in transference people relate inauthentically whereas in empathy people relate authentically. (Here…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy: Top Ten Trends for 2022
A new year and a new virus variant? Being cynical and resigned is easy, and the empathy training is to drive out cynicism and resignation – then empathy…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy: Capitalist Tool (Part 3): Empathy by the Numbers
I have been known to say: "We don't need more data; we need expanded empathy!" But, in truth, we need both. The numbers support the conclusion that there is an…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy Capitalist Tool (Part 2): "CEO" now means "Chief Empathy Officer"
“CEO” no longer means “Chief Executive Officer,” but “Chief Empathy Officer.” One can hear the groans—this time, from the executive suite, not the cubicles…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy: Capitalist Tool (Part 1): The Empathy Deficit in Business is Getting Attention
When I ask business leaders what is their budget for empathy training, the response is often a blank stare. Zero. However, when I ask the person what is the…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy and LIterature: Grand Rounds Presentation at Rush Medical University October 13, 2016
Most people think that empathy is compassion. And while the world needs more compassion, empathy is distinct from compassion. Empathy tells me what the other…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy versus Bullying: Part 3: Recommendations for students, parents, and educators
In the first two episodes, bullying was defined and the uses of a rigorous and critical empathy to set limits and boundaries and contain, reduce, and stop…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy versus bullying: Part 2: Online bullying and what to do about it
The paradox is the anti-social nature of social networking. The computer screen isolates the person even as the person is trying to connect. The contrary is…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy versus bullying: The biggest bully in my life
This is the first podcast in a series on empathy and bullying. The author, Lou Agosta, talks about "the biggest bully in my life" and how empathy is the…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaReclaiming Conversation in Online Therapy: An Imaginary Dialogue With Sherry Turkle Between Lou Agosta and Arnon Rolnick
Arnon Rolnick and Lou Agosta discuss the work of Sherry Turkle. Professor Turkle gets off a good “Jeremiad” about the damaging effects of beeping, chirping…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaResistance to Empathy and How to Overcome it (Part 2): Individual Provider and Receiver (of Empathy)
Empathy is supposed to be like motherhood, apple pie, and puppies. What’s not to like? A lot. People can be difficult—very difficult—why should empathizing…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaResistance to Empathy and How to Overcome it (Part 1: Organizational Resistance to Empathy)
The qualities that make organizations successful are not always the qualities that enhance their empathy. Beating the competition in the market, overcoming…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe Secret Underground History of Empathy (complete talk)
I know what you feel because I feel it, too, as a vicarious experience, not a merger. Without any prerequisites, this presentation engages the deep history of…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy: The one-minute training [no kidding!]
Expand your empathy here-and-now. Empathy training consists in overcoming the obstacles to empathy that people have unwittingly acquired in being taught to…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe Natural Empath Meets the Good Samaritan
To regulate your empathy, cross the street. This is an edgy and confrontational way of putting it, but it is literally accurate. Cross the street away from the…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaHow to know if you are in an abusive relationship and what to do about it - spike in domestic violence accompanies pandemic shelter at home
Three women a day die because of domestic violence (nnedv.org). What is gender violence? How many women and children suffer abuse? How to tell if you are in an…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpaths don’t get enough empathy
This gift of empathy shows up as a mixed blessing, since the natural empath experiences the pains and sufferings of the world more intensely and deeply than do…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaGalileo’s Middle Finger: Speaking Truth to [Transgender] Power – and Power Talks Back
A scientist has not been burned at the stake in over 350 years - and even then it was Giordano Bruno, not Galileo. Find out how Professor Alice Dreger (PhD)…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe Big Four Empathy Breakdowns - and What To Do About Them: How To Transform Them into Empathy Breakthroughs
The Big Four breakdowns of empathy are: emotional contagion, conformity, projection, and getting lost in translations. Every breakdown contains within itself…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEverything You Wanted to Know About Emerging Adulthood but Were Afraid to Ask: Addiction, Learning Challenges, Failure to Launch, and Helicopter Parents
Join Lou Agosta and his special guests Drs. Jesse Viner and Dale Monroe-Cook for an engaging conversation about the emotional, psychological, and human…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaA Rigorous and Critical Empathy: Perform a Readiness Assessment
Empathy is never needed more than when it seems there is no time for it. Empathy is never needed more than when it seems the budget does not allow for it…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaA Rumor of Empathy in Modern Music: A Conversation with Mischa Zupko, composer, teacher, artist, musician
In this podcast, join me and my special guest musician, teacher, and composer Mischa Zupko for a conversation about music, the emotions, empathy, and…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy is a dial, not an on-off switch
People think of empathy as an "on off" switch. Turn empathy "on" for friends, family, the home team - turn empathy "off" for the bad guys, the competition, or…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaHow Things Were Done [Empathically] in Odessa: A Conversation with Jonathan Brent, Executive Director, YIVO
Join Lou for a conversation with Jonathan Brent, Executive Director of Yivo about how things were done in Odessa. This refers to a celebrated story by Isaac…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy, Stress, Brain Science – the Course!
A famous person (Heinz Kohut) once said: "Empathy is oxygen for the soul." So if one is feeling shortness of breath, maybe one needs expanded empathy! This…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy and compassion fatigue: A radical proposal for overcoming it
What is the difference between empathy and compassion? One of the criticisms of empathy is that is leaves you vulnerable to compassion fatigue. The helping…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe Evidence: Empathy is Teachable, Trainable, Learnable
Tired of people talkin' out of their hats about "lack of evidence" for empathy? Such assertions are incorrect. Here are many peer-reviewed, evidence-based…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaListening to Killers: James Garbarino interviewed by Lou Agosta on Jim's 20 years as an exert witness in murder cases
James Garbarino presents lessons learned from his twenty plus years as a psychological expert witness in murder cases. Understanding the victims of violent…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe Evidence: Empathy is good for your health and well-being (Updated!)
Empathy has been criticized as not "evidence-based" or lacking in scientific rigor. This is incorrect. Extensive scientific and peer-reviewed research supports…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe Secret Underground History of Empathy (excerpt)
This podcast is an excerpt from a live, in person presentation entitled The Secret Underground History of Empathy delivered on July 14, 2016 (Bastille Day) at…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaEmpathy is the New Love
The idea is that what people really want more than anything else is to be gotten for who they are – i.e., people want empathy. You know how in the world of…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaA Rumor of Empathy in Heidegger
This is a live talk / presentation at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University on May 6, 2013 by Lou Agosta discussing his book…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThe Case of Dr Know-it-all: Empathy Gives Us Our Humanity
You do not need a philosopher to tell you what empathy is. What then do you need? How about a folktale, a narrative, a fairy tale? Rather than start with a…
A Rumor of Empathy with Lou AgostaThree books on empathy reviewed: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Three books on empathy that you will want to check out - after getting the short version here. I had some fun with this one - and, you, the listener, will too…