Project Team

The Empathy Movement Training Curriculum Development Team

Participating Organizations

Core Design Team
People and Roles  

1. Edwin Rutsch

   1. 1. Empathy Center Board Member

      2. Empathy Movement and Training Visionary

      3. Empathy Area Expert 

      4. Empathy Circle Developer

      5. Co developer of the Empathy Circle Facilitation Training

      6. Empathy Circle Facilitator Trainer

      7. Project: Get the Empathy Movement Training Curriculum off the ground and growing.

      8. Project: Develop the Definition of Empathy Training Module

2. William Filler 

   1. 1. Empathy Center Board Member

      2. Empathy Circle Facilitator Trainer

      3. Educator and co developer of the Empathy Circle Facilitation Training

      4. Project: Empathy Circle Facilitation Training

3.  Lou Zweier 

   1. 1. Empathy Center Board Member

      2. Empathy Circle Facilitator Trainer

      3. Educator and co developer of the Empathy Circle Facilitation Training

      4. Project: Empathy Circle Facilitation Training

      5. Project: How to Set Up Community Empathy Cafe Events?   

4. Susan Christy 

   1. Have Created Curriculum 

   2. Have held Active Listening and Empathy Workshops

   3. Project: Training Curriculum on listening and speaking more deeply in an Empathy Circle 

5. Ingrid Hirtz

   1. Empathy Center Board Member

   2. Empathy Circle Facilitator Trainer

   3. Project: ?Developing Empathy Based Community

6. Jonathan Gordon

   1. Empathy Circle Facilitator Trainer

   2. Co developer of the Empathy Circle Handbook

7. Cara Jean Wilson

   1. Empathy Summit Team Member and Host

8. Janna Weiss

   1. Empathy Circle Facilitator Trainer

   2. Project: Creating Values based Empathy Cafes.

9. Paramita Roy

   1. Founder & CEO Virtual School Australia 

   2. Founder Global Empathy Conference

   3. Project: Empathy in Schools, Teachers Education.

10. Ananya Sharma   ananyasha222@gmail.com   

    1. I have been wanting to use my skills in e-learning content creation, training coordinator and administration to help with your project. Delivering subject matter expert content in a digestible manner using various tools is my speciality.  Empathy and emotional intelligence needs to be a subject that needs more material on it so institutions and schools have access to some sort of curriculum and best practise around these were sensitive topics. I would love to be in a room with others who also would like to contribute to this. I am in berlin Germany 

    2. Training and L&D Operations | 

    3. can do 2 hours a week

11. Vikki Nolan

    1. My team (Buthaina Osman) and I have developed therapeutic interventions that use game mechanics to support neurodivergent children and young people experiencing mental health challenges such as anxiety. We design our own narrative-led games, grounded in psychotherapy principles, to build social skills, strengthen empathy, and provide meaningful early intervention. We would genuinely value the opportunity to contribute to and collaborate on the empathy curriculum. I believe there’s strong alignment between your work and our approach, and I’d welcome a conversation about how we might support one another.

    2. Humanistic Psychotherapist

    3. Director at Role Resolve 

    4. Has done Empathy Circle Facilitator Training

    5. uses empathy circle

12. Buthaina Osman  buthaina@roleresolve.com

    1. Humanistic Psychotherapist

    2. Has done Empathy Circle Facilitator Training

    3. Role Resolve 

13. Sharlene Rudd   sharlene@roleresolve.com 

    1. Humanistic Psychotherapist

    2. Role Resolve 

    3.  I work with Vikki and Buthaina. Vikki and I are co-founders of Role Resolve Therapy. I believe Vikki and Burthaina have taken part in the empathy circle training and that’s the reason for the interest in the curriculum. 

14. Heather Rosso 

    1. Empathy in grade schools

    2. Disinformation, Extremism, & Influence Operations Researcher 

15. Marta Burnet 

    1. Director, Advancing Empathy Initiative, I am the director of advancing empathy at Woodland Park Zoo and oversee the network of zoos and aquariums who work to foster empathy for wildlife. We have developed many trainings and are currently working on developing curriculum from our 200+ resources. I was curious to learn about your project and see if there are overlaps or places we could collaborate. I attended some empathy circles a few years ago and have been following your work. Happy to talk more about this in a zoom call if you’d like 

16. Rosa Zubizarreta

    1. would be happy to be on the project email list, support the project in an advisory role, and/or offer a module on Empathy Circle and DF..