Empathy vs. Sympathy: Helping Students Discover the Difference

How can we help our students give support to someone who is struggling with emotional challenges?

Empathy and Sympathy are two of the most common ways we offer comfort to others dealing with emotional struggles, yet they are very different from one another.  

Public speaker Dr. Brené Brown narrates this compelling short film by RSA Animate that helps to decipher the difference between Sympathy and Empathy.

A film by RSA Animate.

Video from KarmaTube

You can help your students see the difference between these two approaches and lean how to apply them to their lives with the new student journal, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values. Your students can learn about ahavat hager and how to deal with personal struggles another may be facing. Help your students explore how it would feel to be in that person's shoes and what they could do or say to make that person feel a little better. 

Preorder your copy of Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values here.

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