What is Empathy?

Empathy is......

• listening to a friend and trying to understand why they had a bad day
• listening to a radio show

Empathy is...

• the ability to share an emotion with another person
• the ability to copy someone else's emotion

Empathy is...

• The ability to have feelings
• The ability to understand the feelings of others

Empathy is...

• Feeling other people's fear or pain when you see them feeling that way
• knowing someone is in pain or scared

Empathy is... 

• understanding someone's emotions but not sharing them
• being able to identify how someone is feeling

Empathy is....

• listening to your friend, understanding they are sad, but not becoming sad because of it
• listening to your friend who is sad

Empathy.....

• helps us understand others
• makes it easier to have emotions

Empathy is....

• putting your shoes on
• 'putting yourself in their shoes'

When listening to a friend talk, you imagine what you would have done differently.

• This is empathy.
• This is NOT empathy.

When listening to a friend talk, you imagine what they must have been feeling to make them act that way.

• This is empathy.
• This is NOT empathy.