April 10, 2013
I am, with my friend and colleague Michelle, producing and directing Listen to Your Mother in Indianapolis. Recently, during our first rehearsal, I was struck over and over again by how the common threads of humanity—joy, surprise, feelings of being overwhelmed, gratitude, fear, longing, loss, and love—intertwined in a room that was, at first, mostly strangers. Connection […]
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February 12, 2013
Empathy—the capacity to understand or express understanding of the emotions of another, the ability to connect and emotionally support another person. Empathy is the “social glue” of relationships and encompasses three levels: Cognitive, which allows us to be able to “see” the situation, issue, concern, topic, from someone else’s point of view, to be in […]
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