Lesson 3 - I Exhibit Concern for the Needs of Others

Identify some ways of showing empathy to others

Discuss the needed steps to help you learn and develop empathy with others

Apply in their own lives how to empathize with others based on what you have learned.

Answer the following questions:

1. Describe the people’s feelings during the time of suffering.

2. Have you experienced suffering like the people in the pictures? Circle

your answer.

a. Yes

b. No

3. How did you feel during this suffering?

4. Who were with you when you experienced this kind of suffering?

5. Was there help extended to you? Circle your answer.

a. Yes

b. No

How was the help extended to you?

6. Which among the pictures showed the feelings and reactions of people

who did not get any help? Write the number of the pictures.

7. What do you think are the comments or feedback you heard from them?

8. Have you experienced inadvertently or unintentionally hurting someone

while you were actually intending to help him or her? Circle your answer.

a. Yes

b. No

9. How did you know he or she was hurt?

10. What did you do to show him or her that you did not mean to hurt him

or her?

11. What do you mean by putting yourself in someone else’s shoes?

12. What is empathy?

13. Recount instances in your life when you showed or manifested empathy

toward other people.

a. At home 

b. In school 

c. In your community

d. In our country

We need to show empathy or concern for others. Without empathy, our world would be chaotic. Empathy creates bonds of trust and helps connect people’s feelings together. The word empathy means “passion” or “affection.” We can show empathy through a simple sign of affection like a hug or a sympathetic embrace. Most often, empathy is used to feel a person’s painful experiences but it can also apply to a positive feeling of accomplishment, achievement, and success. Empathy can be communicated by some behavioral traits. It must be observed by people who have genuine concern for others.

Ways to show empathy to others:

1. Be an active and attentive listener.

You must show interest and concern to what the other person is saying. Listen very well and take away the things that might distract you like your cell phone, the television, and other gadgets and appliances. Listen attentively not only to words spoken but to the way that they were spoken.

2. Establish eye contact, good posture, and body language that convey genuine empathy.

3. Reflect upon what the other person just said.

This will help show your understanding and interpretation of what was said. One way of showing concern is by saying “I am sad and sorry to hear that.” It will give a person a little enlightenment.

4. Possess validating emotions.

This will help show your acceptance and respect for the feelings of others by putting yourself in their place.

Example: I can understand why you are upset at the moment.

VOCABULARY

validating – confirming

enhance – increase

5. Be supportive at all times.

This goes beyond words to enhance closeness and offer help.

Example: In case you need my advice, I will always be here.

6. Be a team player.

This can be done by engaging the other person to work as a team and be a part of the solution.

Example: We will work together to look for the best solution.

7. Show respect to everyone.

Focus on the positive aspects of the problem to further enhance rapport and effective coping skills. You should treat others the way you would want them to treat you.

Example: That’s impressive! You can easily cope with the uncertainty you are undergoing.

VOCABULARY

rapport – a harmonious or sympathetic relationship

8. Use nice and kind words all the time. These words will lighten and inspire others.

9. Always accept your mistakes with sincerity and humility.

Steps That Will Help Children Empathize with Others

Children who have experienced empathy are more understanding and show concern for the needs of others. They know how to identify feelings that they have experienced before. Before they say or do something that might hurt someone else, they have thought about how the other person would feel. They know that they have to use polite and kind words at all times.

People who show empathy to others give particular attention to nonverbal cues or emotions expressed through body actions or body language. They focus on the gentle, comforting tone of voice and pace of speech. It also includes showing caring facial expressions and appropriate gestures.

What acts of empathy or feeling of concern do you see around your home, school, and neighborhood? Have you shown love and concern to others?

How will you initiate and continue showing empathy to others?

MAPEH  - The learners are able to mingle and show respect to their classmates.

What decisions will you make on the given situations? Write your answers in the space provided.

1. My best friend is a candidate for first honor. Since she was not able  to study before the examinations, she decided to make a kodigo. I saw her using it during the examination. What should I do?

2. Your parents are working hard for the education of your siblings. Your father died recently because he was accidentally hit by a bus on his way to work. Mother does not earn much to send all of you to school. If you were one of the siblings, what will you do to help your family survive?

3. Your parents gave you permission to attend your friend’s birthday party. But after the party, your friends decided to go to a nearby mall. They were convincing you to go with them. Will you go or not? What will you do?

4. Ana, a new classmate of yours, does not socialize with anybody except with you. You have other friends in school who would like to go with you but Ana is giving you chocolates and other stuff so that you will not leave her. But you would also like to mingle with your other friends. What will you do?