Author Archives: Roman Krznaric

Review: The Sacred Made Real at the National Gallery

By Roman Krznaric | Published: 28 November 2009
For over half a millennia Christian art has attempted to use empathy to help people understand the reality and significance of Christ’s suffering on the cross. We are offered paintings and sculptures showing nails piercing flesh, gaping wounds and seeping blood that aim to have us not only see what Christ endured, but also to [...]
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Podcast: Sally on Sunday interview

By Roman Krznaric | Published: 24 November 2009
On November 15 I spoke about empathy and the Outrospection blog on BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Sally on Sunday’ programme hosted by Sally Magnusson. // Share|
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You are, therefore I am

By Roman Krznaric | Published: 21 November 2009
A recent report by Human Rights Watch has highlighted the persecution in Vietnam of followers of the Zen Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. Now in his eighties and author of books that have sold over a million copies, Thich Nhat Hanh is known as one of the founders of ‘engaged Buddhism’, which [...]
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In search of our inner ape: An interview with Frans de Waal

By Roman Krznaric | Published: 14 November 2009
In an exclusive interview for OUTROSPECTION, I speak to the renowned Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal about his new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society. De Waal, voted by Time Magazine as one of the 100 World’s Most Influential People Today, is Professor of Primate Behaviour at Emory University in the US. [...]
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Using babies to teach empathy in schools

By Roman Krznaric | Published: 8 November 2009
I’m delighted to see that one of the great pioneers of empathy education, Mary Gordon, has just had her book Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child By Child, published in the UK. It’s about time. The programme she founded in Canada in 1995, also called Roots of Empathy (ROE), has revolutionised how empathy skills [...]
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How an industrial designer discovered the elderly

By Roman Krznaric | Published: 1 November 2009
There is a long tradition of developing empathy through direct experience of other people’s lives. Much of it has been aimed at understanding the lives of those living in poverty.  In the late 1920s George Orwell dressed up as a tramp and wandered the streets of East London with vagabonds and beggars, a period of his [...]
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Tackling the empathy deficit

By Roman Krznaric | Published: 25 October 2009
Welcome to my new blog about empathy – the art of stepping into the shoes of other people and seeing the world from their perspective. I believe that empathy can help us escape from the narrow confines of our own existence and guide us towards more adventurous and fulfilling lives. Empathy is also a radical [...]
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