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Niezink<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Empathy Circles are a hands on, walking the talk, empathy practice.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The circles are based in science from many different disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, philosophy and arts (i.e. dance and literature). When developing the empathy circles, we did not want to get fussy over the term while getting distracted from the real important outcomes of the volumes of books, scientific studies and practices developed. We therefore decided to take a blended approach to empathy and started to actually practice in the empathy circles what all these different disciplines had to say about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We blended science and practice to both decipher what empathy looks and feels like as well as figure out what works and what does not work in practice. Combining the different disciplines lead us to propose five phases of empathy: Self-empathy, mirrored empathy, reflective empathy, imaginative empathy and empathic creativity or -action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the core of these five phases of empathy are different levels of synchronicity between two or more people. Empathy Circles are meant to be a hands on method in supporting your practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 57px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Distinguishing <u>Empathy<\/u> from &#8220;Emotional Contagion&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the experience of empathy, we must be able to disentangle our sense of self from others.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emotional contagion is defined as the tendency to &#8216;catch'(experience\/express) another person&#8217;s emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the main differences between empathy and emotional contagion is that there is no differentiation between self and other in emotional contagion. It is a non-conscious process of automatic, somatic mimicry.\u00a0 After automatically mimicking and synchronizing facial expressions and movements with those of another person, emotional convergence takes place.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">fMRI studies on empathy and perspective taking show that agency (i.e. the awareness of oneself as an agent who is the initiator of actions, desires, thoughts, and feelings) is a crucial aspect of empathy to successfully navigate emotions and behaviours as belonging to either ourselves or the person in front of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">..::&#8221;If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When we are confronted to the emotions and expressions of another person, self-awareness generally, and agency in particular, are crucial aspects in making sure that we can be open to these people with a selfless regard for the other rather than a selfish desire to escape, or project ourselves into, their expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 17px;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also need to protect ourselves from being overly stimulated by our social interactions, which can result in burn-out or compassion fatigue. 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