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Our need to expand our circles of empathy has never been more urgent.
The Circles of Empathy practice is one such process growing in visibility and availability to the LDS community.
Kendall Wilcox, a gay Latter-day Saint who helped launch a new podcast program called "Out in Zion," is working to foster a better way by founding a small group practice called "Circles of Empathy".
Since 2013, Kendall has developed and grown Circles of Empathy, is a small-group discussion practice that helps straight and LGBTQI/SSA Mormons process the conflict between the teachings of the LDS Church and their feelings about homosexuality or homosexual loved ones.
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As the circle of empathy widens, possibly flowers and stones are next, though fleshless affairs will surely sell less well.
As Americans withdraw into smaller circles of experience, we jeopardize the "larger circle of empathy," he said, the search for solutions to shared problems.
Realistic fiction, for its part, may expand readers' circle of empathy by seducing them into thinking and feeling like people very different from themselves.
Other trends that Pinker invokes include the spread of literacy, which, he argues, led to an expanding "circle of empathy" and made practices like flogging and pillorying seem intolerable, and the many rights movements of the twentieth century — women's, gay, civil, animal — which transformed everyday sorts of violence (beating the wife, kicking the dog) into antisocial behavior.
Other trends that Pinker invokes include the spread of literacy, which, he argues, led to an expanding "circle of empathy" and made practices like flogging and pillorying seem intolerable, and the many rights movements of the twentieth century women's, gay, civil, animal which transformed everyday sorts of violence (beating the wife, kicking the dog) into antisocial behavior.
Beyond being a very useful search engine, like I said before, it creates this circle of empathy, where people realize that 'Oh, there's other people who need my help and I can actually help them and they'll feel good about it and they'll get trained to thinking about helping other people.
And each one of these leaps expands the circle of empathy -- from tribes, to nation-states, to continents and, if we're lucky, to the entire world.
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