Trainer Certification Course in Empathy
Instructor:
Daniel Keeran, MSW,
president of the College of Mental Health Counselling at www.ctihalifax.com
Certification allows the holder to conduct empathy education on a fee-for-service basis, using this course outline and text. The sole requirement of certification is satisfactory completion of the course. On completion, the participant receives the Certificate of Trainer in Empathy and the designation of Certified Empathy Trainer (CET).
Objectives:
1. To assist the healthy development of emotional awareness and empathy.
2. To assist the ability to defend the views of your perceived opponent.
3. To expand the influence of the Course in Empathy.
Course Text:
A Course in Empathy – The New Revolution of the Heart
Topics:
1. Introduction: What is Empathy?
2. Exercise One: Building Your Emotion Vocabulary
3. Exercise Two: Distinguishing Emotions and Thoughts
4. Exercise Three: Making Sentences for Empathy
5. Exercise Four: Role Reversal
6. Exercise Five: Doubling
7. Exercise Six: Listening with Empathy
8. Exercise Seven: Becoming Another Character
9. Exercise Eight: Understanding the Story
10. Exercise Nine: Imagine Emotions of a Historical Character
11. Exercise Ten: Having Empathy for Anger
Tuition: $200 (USD)
Empathy Education: Becoming More Human
Ten practical exercises to increase empathic ability in children and adults
Daniel Keeran, MSW
"President, College of Mental Health Counselling, Canada
In this concise volume, the author describes ten practical exercises to enable the development of empathy and thereby aid the transformation of the self and the community. It is hoped the user will create ways to improve these approaches, and the vitality of the movement will be sustained.
Introduction: What Is Empathy?
Exercise One: Building Your Emotion Vocabulary
Exercise Two: Distinguishing Emotions and Thoughts
Exercise Three: Making Sentences for Empathy
Exercise Four: Role Reversal
Exercise Five: Doubling
Exercise Six: Listening with Empathy
Exercise Seven: Becoming Another Character
Exercise Eight: Understanding the Story
Exercise Nine: Imagine the Emotions of a Historical"