Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland

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Some sceptics might also point to the campaign around empathy education as being earnest and naive, along the lines of John Lennon’s well-intentioned but wide-eyed campaign to give peace a chance. As a manager and a coach I have delivered messages to young talented athletes which has, at the very least, disrupted their dreams – that they may have progressed as far as they can go in their chosen sport at this time; a question mark for some, a full stop for others. I have often been as devastated in delivering that verdict and they have been in receiving it... But empathy gives you the confidence to communicate the truth to them that disappointment in one area of life need not diminish the self; that personhood is resilient and strong if nurtured well and supported consistently.” Rory O’Neill, AKA Panti Bliss Ar an mbealach seo, is gné fíor-riachtanach íéisteacht ionbhá caidreamh a dhéanamh i gceart agus go héifeachtúil lenár dtimpeallacht: agus muid ag déileáil leis na daoine timpeall orainn agus freisin le foghlaim ónár gcuid botún agus muid ag idirghníomhú leis an gcuid eile den tsochaí, athmhachnamh a dhéanamh ar ár dtuairim agus feabhsú mar dhaoine. Higher Education and Community Development: A Multi-Stakeholder View on the Correlates of Project Participation and Design Preferences

Please visit our online shop and feel free to browse our shelves, as you would if you were in our physical shop. We have it set up so it’s easy to browse and even have all our recommended reads in one place to help you, if needs be. Our world is changing very fast and this is not just an opportune time to catch up in terms of the provision of better ‘person centred’ education, but a defining chance for Ireland to be one of the forerunners in compassion development- It’s up to us all really. Let’s give empathy for Christmas and all year long!

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All royalties from the sale of this book will go directly to delivering the Activating Social Empathy education programme in Irish schools and youth work organisations. MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) The book is also littered with errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation, which let it down hugely.

Is foinse dúshlán intleachtúil leanúnach é a spreagann muid agus a spreagann ár bhforbairt phearsanta. The way civic society is going — not just in this country, but globally — we’re going to be dependent on empathy. Take climate challenge or social justice of any shape or form... it’s vital — Prof Pat Dolan The wide range of contributions to the publication Ionbhá act like a compass, guiding us on things that really matter in life. Reflections on empathy illuminate its healing properties, vividly opening our eyes to the countless ways in which its power can shape us all. This collection shows that no matter how big or small, empathetic actions have a massive impact. Although we rarely appreciate how these actions affect people and their communities, they often reverberate long after we act. The notion that empathy can be learnt or unlearnt is an important one. When we are overwhelmed by emotions, and when we don't see the empathy we need in those around us, we put a distance between us and those emotions, and with that we unlearn ourselves and with that our empathy.The Brazilian Social Mobilization for Education Plan - Factors Affecting Leadership Engagement in The Communities of the Estreito Hydroelectric Region Even though you’re performing something, you open yourself up to other people and other actors and other worlds. You are connecting to this emotion inside of you,” he says. “The most important tool that you have as an actor is empathy. Not just for your character. Unless you’re connected with that other person and truly listening and truly engaged with them, the scene falls flat. It doesn’t work.”

I think sometimes Irish people are a little afraid of emotion. And I think I was probably saved from that by acting. Because it’s all about connecting with emotions.” Healthy Eating Steel-cut, stoneground or rolled oats? What’s the healthiest, most nutritious way to eat porridge 03:30 This book changed something in me, made me want to see more empathy around us. Although, at the end of the book, some essays descend into pacifism and its link to empathy - that I disagree with. I enjoyed reading this book. Murphy, who agreed to become patron for the centre, says he was initially unsure how to define empathy, or how to locate it in a practical way in his life. Slowly, he says, he began to realise that empathy was a fundamental part of his job as an actor — and as a dad.Empathy is not sympathy, it’s totally different. Empathy is the capacity to get into somebody else’s shoes and understand where they’re coming from. You can have cognitive empathy, and that’s where you understand what someone else is feeling, and that’s great, but affective empathy is where you actually feel what the person really feels. There are many corollaries of this in modern life, he says, such as the solipsistic world of social media, the absence of time for others, the echo chamber of the media and politics. “I think for young people, social media is a very competitive and very combative environment. I think it’s very hard to be empathetic towards something that you can’t see or connect with,” he says.

His steely glare captivated viewers as gang boss Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. It’s a murky world where Cillian Murphy’s on-screen character succeeds by using violence as well as cunning to get by — not to mention the razor blades sewn into his flatcap. But when I meet him at a neighbourhood cafe in Monkstown, Co Dublin on a bright autumnal afternoon it’s all warm smiles and handshakes. He knows the owner, who leads us to a quiet mezzanine upstairs for our interview. We need an empathy revolution,” says Murphy. “We’d like to get people talking about it, to get it into the vernacular, for it become a topic of conversation, and for people to become interested in it.” We now know empathy and social connectedness promote greater life satisfaction and self-confidence among adolescents, as well as greater resilience to mental health problems. It is also a deterrent to engagement in anti-social acts and as an enabler to humanity. We also know from neuroscience that empathy is not a "fixed given" at birth nor is it "static", but can actually be grown or activated in the brain particularly during adolescence – so you can learn to empathise during the teen years and at any stage of your life course. Ionbhá, The Empathy Book for Ireland, is published by Mercier Press and edited by Cillian Murphy, Pat Dolan, Gillian Browne and Mark Brennan On empathy... Eamonn O’Shea, economist and former Tipperary hurling manager and coach Ar an gcaoi chéanna, is uirlis í an éisteacht ghníomhach a ceadaíonn sé tuairim réamhcheaptha faoi dhaoine eile a athrú agus dul níos faide ná clichés agus claontachtaí trí glacadh leis an gcaoi a smaoiníonn agus a mhothaíonn daoine eile. Go hachomairCommunity Leadership Development: Youth Leadership Development in Pennsylvanian High Schools with Agriculture Programs Irish News Hoping to see Bruce Springsteen? Flying to Cardiff may prove far cheaper than going to Dublin Murphy’s sons, Malachy and Aran, are now in their teens, and in Ionbhá he writes in his own essay, “On Connection”, that “raising boys in this world is difficult. You do everything in your power to avoid raising proto-bullies or proto-misogynists, to avoid all the evil tropes of masculinity we are confronted by every day.” Is empathy a more feminine thing? “There probably is some pre-judging there about boys and girls, but I just think that if you’re around it, and exposed to it, and that muscle is exercised, then I think there should be no difference.” That said, he believes that “schools should be mixed... I don’t know why you would have boys and girls in separate schools. I went to an all-boys school all the way up, but it just seems insane to me. My boys have gone to mixed schools, and I think it’s been really beneficial for them.” Food binds us together and is essential for life, both physical and social. The recent inability to touch, or hug, or to share bread together due to Covid-19 has highlighted, with an ever brighter intensity, the importance of these human connections. Interactions once tactile and exuberant are now fraught and fragile.” Tolü Makay, singer, actor and mental health advocate Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland is' edited by Pat Dolan, Cillian Murphy, Gillian Browne and Mark Brennan, and comprises over 80 contributions from mostly well-known Irish names on empathy. It is published by Mercier Press on October 6.