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DAVID LEVINE

A LOOK AT BULLYING

THROUGH THE EMPATHIC LENS:

EMPATHY, RESILIENCE & BELONGING

“I want to get to the heart. I have conversations with teachers who say ‘Can you teach empathy?’ Empathy is a natural feeling toward others, but I look at it as a bundle of social skills. It’s all about relationships. Everything moves from that place.”

“Everyone has the right to feel connection, to feel support. This is about resilience. It’s really a consciousness movement.”

Teaching Empathy,

by David A. Levine

“Do children know what their value is? If a school could help kids see that gift, they would be completely engaged, and, by the way, there would be no behavior problems. That would be a standard that I would measure schools by.”

“When we engage our children in stories about their lives, we offer high level reflection of what we sense is happening to them; we’re remembering them. When we heal ourselves, we heal the other. The low-level response is to give advice and a high-level response is reflecting feelings. Punishment is criticism; consequence is feedback. Criticism is judging and labeling. ”     -- David Levine

click to listen                                      1 hour, 20 minutes

For more information about David and his work, please visit, www.davidalevine.com