Building Balanced Empathy - Mindful exploring empathy

Mondays, 13th, 20th and 27th February

18:00-20:00

In-person

(Limited to 12 people)

Booking deadline 10th February noon

Building Balanced Empathy is a course lasting 6 hours (3 x 2-hour sessions) designed to explore empathy, vulnerability, and emotional resilience.

We examine what causes you to feel emotionally overwhelmed and conversely what leads you to emotionally disconnect from others.

We explore whether we genuinely feel and understand the experiences and emotions of other people.

You will learn techniques empowering you to relate to others in a healthy, more balanced way.

“I learned I have a lot of misplaced or misguided empathy. I realise how much of a communication issue is not necessarily an issue with feeling. I realised just how deep my need to fix everything goes, especially with role-playing” - Linda Melisano, course participant, Florida, May 2019

With our varied learning materials and fun interactive exercises, you will learn how to empathise from your heart and from your head. We explore how to genuinely feel and understand the experiences and emotions of other people, allowing for more compassion towards oneself and others.

You will be able to integrate these techniques afterward using a series of audio meditations available as a download.

This course will help you to develop:

 a calmer more focused mind

 better self-understanding and therefore real empathy for others

 identifying what pushes us out of balance allowing the space for wiser choices

 stronger emotional resilience

 closer, more nurturing relationships with family, friends, and co-workers

 more compassion for ourselves and others 

The course is led by Hogetsu Baerndal, Chaplain and Mindfulness teacher at Imperial's Multi-Faith Centre.

Hogetsu is the chaplaincy Mindfulness/Buddhist chaplain. She runs the Mindfulness 5 weeks courses for health and wellbeing as well as 8 weeks courses 'Zen for insight' and '16 Guidelines for a happier life'.   She is a certified Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 200 and certified registered Meditation & Mindfulness teacher and teacher trainer (RMT) 500.

When signing up for this course, please only do so if you know you can attend all sessions. Each session builds on the previous one. 

The course is open to all students and staff at Imperial College, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music, and London School of Economics. Please sign up with your college email.

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