There is a lot of interest in empathy, both in science and the public domain. This results in many definitions and approaches to empathy. While this interest is great, we face the risk of not seeing the wood for the trees. After 20 years of studying and developing empathy practice, we define five distinct, but connected, aspects of Integrative Empathy with resulting behaviours:

• Bringing your undivided attention with self-empathy
• Creating and maintaining connection with kinesthetic empathy
• Fostering mutual understanding with reflective empathy
• Diversifying perspectives with imaginative empathy and
• Ensuring actionable outcomes with empathic creativity

This short course presents the theoretical basis of these five building blocks of Integrative Empathy. It provides you with important details to support your empathy practice. It also guides you to understand which empathy approach is most useful for your purpose. This course lays the foundation for your further practice with the Practising integrative Empathy course.

• Duration: self-paced, approximately 20 hours in total (6 modules)
  
• Start the course at your convenience
• Format: 2-3 hours/module online self-paced learning + 1 1/2 hour Zoom meeting at the end of the self-paced course, scheduled 3 times per year
• Price: EUR 95

Each module focuses on a new topic with reading materials, videos, quizzes and suggested further reading.

• 1: Introduction to empathy
• 2: Self-empathy and setting intentions
• 3: Kinesthetic empathy
• 4: Reflective empathy
• 5: Imaginative empathy
• 6: Empathic creativity

• Health practitioners
• Coaches and mentors
• Facilitators and trainers
• Business leaders and managers
• Parents
• Students and Educators
• General public interested in empathy, communication and interpersonal interaction.