We are excited to announce an IDEA whose time has come! International Day for Empathic Action (IDEA) is a worldwide call for empathic action on October 2, 2009, the International Day of Nonviolence and Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. We can Bridge the Empathy Gap and you can be part of this next global step.

International Day for Empathic Action (IDEA): A day of community service activities world-wide that are aware of each other to create unity and a world-wide understanding of empathy.??

International Day for Empathic Action (IDEA) Mission: To have available a skilled person in empathic listening/connecting in all regions of the world so that we may see all beings integrate suffering to become free and fully alive. To have skilled people available in all communities to be “empathic third siders” to support peaceable resolve to any conflict.?

IDEA Vision: That IDEA brings forward in every state, country, continent, leaders and facilitators to host gatherings with an emphasis on empathy to celebrate, mourn, learn & practice empathy skills, create plans for empathy corps or empathy first responder service in their area.

We invite you to the website dedicated to International Day for Empathic Action (IDEA), http://www.worldempathy.org, to learn more about this global celebration. There you can look at ways to participate and create your own event that will be meaningful for you. All of us together can Bridge the Empathy Gap. Yes We Can!

 We also invite you to join free telecourses for those wanting more skills in empathy in preparation for this day. Go to http://www.nvctraining.com/ to register.

In partnership for a world where everyone matters,

Bridging the Empathy Gap Team:

Catherine Cadden

Sylvia Haskvitz

Jori Manske

Kathleen Macferran

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