Resources+-+Videos

= = = = ="**The Empathic Civilisation**" by Jeremy Rifkin= media type="youtube" key="l7AWnfFRc7g" height="315" width="560" //In this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of **empathy** and the profound ways it has shaped human development and society. (Find it on YouTube & TED.com)// __**Quotes from video:**__"Empathy is grounded in the acknowledgement of Death and celebration of Life...[it is] based on frailties and imperfections". "[We need to] extend our identities to think of the human race as fellow sojourners".

="Zero Degrees of Empathy" by Professor Simon Baron Cohen= media type="youtube" key="Aq_nCTGSfWE" height="315" width="560" //Professor Simon Baron Cohen presents a new way of understanding what it is that leads individuals down negative paths, and challenges all of us to consider replacing the idea of evil with the idea of **empathy-erosion.**//

=**"The Power of Mindsight" by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.**= media type="youtube" key="Nu7wEr8AnHw" height="315" width="560" //Siegel explores the neural mechanisms beneath social and emotional intelligence and how these can be cultivated through reflective practices that focus on the inner nature of the mind. He relates these to working in NY public schools.//

=**"COMPASSION AND THE TRUE MEANING OF EMPATHY", Joan Halifax**= media type="youtube" key="dQijrruP9c4" height="315" width="560" //Buddhis roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stae of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.//