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The Empathy Center
Our Vision
A world where mutual empathy is a core personal, social, and cultural value.
Our Mission
To nurture a culture of empathy through presence, education, skill-building, and community initiatives.
Our Values: The Empathy Spiral
Our values unfold as a creative spiral:
Empathy & Mutuality spark...
Trust & Openness, building...
Care, Understanding & Connection which fuel...
Community, Creativity, & Innovation leading to
Greater Personal and Social Well-being
Visit Our Other Projects
The Empathy Center
The website for our 501(c)(3) nonprofit and organizational home for the Empathy Movement.EmpathySummit.com
Bringing together people working on empathy and developing the intellectual and practical movement.CultureOfEmpathy.com
An enormous archive and knowledge hub, including hundreds of interviews with empathy researchers, practitioners and thinkers.EmpathyCircle.com
The practical methodology: a structured process for mutual active listening and dialogue.EmpathyCircleTraining.com
Training Empathy Circle facilitators so the practice can spread globally.EmpathyTent.com
Taking the movement into public listening, conflict and political spaces rather than keeping empathy inside therapy rooms or classrooms.
Our workshop on facing fear with empathy and mindfulness.
The Science of Empathy
Scientific American article that features our empathy building work.
The Empathy Incentive
September 17, 2024
By Elizabeth Svoboda
Cultivating a Culture of Understanding
The Visionary Work of Edwin Rutsch
The Montecito Journal - Sept 6, 2023
By Ann Brode
"As I sat with Edwin in the chapel of the old St. Mary’s Seminary on Las Canoas Road, he shared his plans to establish a retreat center on this extraordinary property. Called The Empathy Center of Santa Barbara, this facility will offer workshops and events focused on promoting empathy as a core value. "
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