Purposeful Empathy with Anita Nowak

Following a successful executive career in management consulting, Amy launched a tech startup called Daily Haloha to encourage empathy and connection. In this episode, she discusses the inspiration behind her app and the aspiration she has for its global users. CONNECT WITH AMY To download the app: http://onelink.to/haloha Website: https://dailyhaloha.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dail...

In this final episode of Purposeful Empathy, we wave 2020 goodbye. Clinical Psychologist and Master Corporate Executive Coach, Dr. Mirella De Civita, describes how devastating the impacts of COVID-19 have been on our mental well-being. She also shares ways in which leaders can support their teams through the power of three compassionate skills (attention, thinking and behaving). Here’s to a better...

Gwen Yi founded Tribeless with a dream - to create safe spaces in our everyday lives that skip the small talk and #SeeTheHumanFirst. In this episode, Gwen explains how human connection is possible - even over zoom! By adapting The Empathy Box (her proprietary card-based facilitation tool) to an online environment, she describes how we can all practice “the microskills of empathy” and create safe s...

In her Master’s Thesis Capstone Empathy Check, Tori Edwards describes why and how exhibition curators should collaborate with the communities for whom they are designing as equals. In this episode, she describes an exhibit called Queens: The Weight of Our Crown at the Colored Girls Museum which she developed and designed to establish an empathetic experience for the African Diasporic community aro...

Dr. Lidewij Niezink, who has been studying empathy for nearly 20 years, co-founded Empathic Intervision, "An embodied practice of empathy for people working together to identify opportunities and co-create solutions to challenges.” In this episode, she shares the 5-step process: Self-empathy (intention setting); kinesthetic empathy (connection with others); reflective empathy (mutual understanding...

In the aftermath of the Biden-Harris win over Trump, this episode features Ron McCLelland, an actor, pastor and spiritual director and explores three themes: Empathy, Lament and Solidarity. In their conversation about allyship and healing America’s racial divide, Ron describes what it means to “walk with the other” and love one’s enemy(ies). It’s an inspiring reminder that empathy is a gateway to...

In this episode, Rasha Kutty shares the vision and mission of The Empathy University, which she founded. Its goal is to provide empathy training to educators and corporate organizations to help grow a culture of empathy in the world. In particular, she describes the importance of personal storytelling to see one another and the world through an empathic lens. CONNECT WITH RASHA https://www.linkedi...

Lisa Gallagher is an early childhood expert who was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by Canada’s Prime Minister in 2012 for her leadership. In this episode, she shares how COVID-19 has profoundly tested educators and parents and impacted children in different ways. And in light of this, she urges us all to extend more empathy to children, educators, and parents - including at Hallowe’en! CONNEC...

Lamiya Morshed, Executive Director of the Yunus Centre, has spent three decades working alongside Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus, helping to lift millions of women and their families out of poverty. In this episode, she shares the origin story of social business and explains why it’s such a powerful vehicle for social impact. She also describes a world of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero...

Parag Mankeekar is a medical doctor, trained anthropologist, social entrepreneur, Ashoka Fellow. He’s also the Executive Director of RealLives , an online video game that aims to increase empathy across the globe. In this episode, he explains how experiencing someone else’s lived reality from birth to death, based on real-world statistics and big data sets, and through gamification, encourages emp...

Gillian Aitken spearheaded a one-day food drive in Montreal called September 13thMiracle . Despite a rainy day, 25,000 kilos of food donations were collected throughout Greater Montreal and redistributed to 200 private homes and 100 food banks by 2000 volunteers. In this episode, she talks about heightened food insecurity as a result of COVID-19 and shares what she learned about distributive leade...

Rachel Kiddell-Monroe is founder of SeeChange, a non-profit organization that helps communities empower themselves. Rachel has been on the frontlines of humanitarian aid for decades and uses her background as a lawyer and activist to fight for social justice. In this episode, Rachel describes why she is optimistic about the future, despite having devoted her career to people who have suffered mass...

Elif is the Founder of Empathy-Building through Museums and author of Designing for Empathy . In this episode, she shares her experience meeting His Holiness The Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and describes why the circle is a beautiful metaphor for empathy. In both cases, it’s all about our eternal “oneness.” Connect with Elif: https://elifgokcigdem.com You can order her books here: https://www.amazon....

Kathryn Aitken is Co-founder of Transition NDG, a cooperative that is part of the global Transition Network. In this episode, Anita talks to Kathryn about re-imagining a sustainable world and harnessing resilience within communities to accelerate that transition. Kathryn also shares her experience with Extinction Rebellion. Transition NDG can be reached at: ttndg.info@gmail.com https://www.faceboo...

Wali Shah is a poet and public speaker who has performed for President Obama, Seth Rogen, Chris Hadfield, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kendrick Lamar. In this episode, Anita talks to Wali about growing up as an immigrant in Toronto, his struggle to belong and his wake-up call at 15 years old when he was arrested. Given his lived experiences, Wali’s advocacy work focuses on bullying, mental health and t...

Many youth are championing social progress across geographies, time, and disciplines. In this episode, Anita talks with Bushra Ebadi, a Youth Ambassador with the UNESCO-led Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy about why agency is a more transformative framework for advancing peace, justice, equity, and sustainability than empowerment. Anita Nowak is an empathy expert,...

Is becoming a better ally important to you? In this episode, Anita talks with Fabrice Vil, Founder of Pour 3 Points about the lived experience of racism, what it means to be anti-racist, and the importance of decolonizing our hearts and minds. Fabrice Vil’s TedxHEC Montreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlmkLcvE-JI Anita Nowak is an empathy expert, author, award-winning educator, international...