How To Develop Empathy w/ Micah Kessel
Is it possible to walk in someone else's shoes?Can you have empathy for someone from a different background?Micah J. Wonjoon Kessel is the I’m CEO of Empathable. They are making the world’s first ‘walk in the shoes’ iOS and Android app. He also founded Playground of Empathy, a 501C3 (‘the Educating Empathy Foundation) with a creative mission to educate, research and support empathic communities.For nearly 2 decades, Micah has designed empathic experiences applying research on the science of emotions. Pioneering behavioral design in the Netherlands, he advised on experiential concepts with organizations such as Google, Disney, Microsoft, and projects for flourishing across social divides with the Finnish and Swedish governments, and the Diabetes Fund.Micah believes ‘empathy’ is not nor ever could be, ‘our ability to understand how someone feels’. First, scientifically, we never know how someone feels. He applies this research which has created a facilitated experience and an app that is changing the paradigm of how we learn through experience, resulting in increasing empathy while decreasing bias and polarization on an organizational and national scale. Under his direction, Empathable’s core concept was pitched and became a winning recipient of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund Award in 2020, granted by their joint council of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. The Empathable Experience has been shared with over 100 organizations, including the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, at the Black in Design Conference, and multiple Fortune 50 companies. He has presented his work at Harvard Medical School, the Society for Neuroscience and Creativity, The Boston Museum of Science, Darden School of Business, and was a 2019 Byron fellow.Empathable's flagship immersive learning program uses empathy to provide a proven way to boost team and client engagement, while heightening leadership and management connectivity.As a researcher, Micah also advises as in the design of social science interventions for various labs that study bias, emotions, and empathy, and have a scientist-practitioner partnership with the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, at UNC Chapel Hill.Listen as Micah shares:- the real meaning of empathy- the benefits and perils of listening to our emotions- how to celebrate each other's different experiences- the meaning of 'emotional belonging'- how to make radical change without changing the radicals- how to get buy-in when you are not aligned- the benefits and power of empathy- the different types of biases- race, gender, nationality and the conceptualization of fear- ways to stop labeling others...and so much more!Connect with Micah:WebsiteLinkedInLinkedInConnect with me on:FacebookInstagramEmail: roberta4sk@gmail.comYouTubeKindly subscribe to our podcast and leave a rating and a review. Thank you :)Leave a rating and a review on iTunes and Spotify:iTunesSpotify
Is it possible to walk in someone else's shoes?
Can you have empathy for someone from a different background?
Micah J. Wonjoon Kessel is the I’m CEO of Empathable. They are making the world’s first ‘walk in the shoes’ iOS and Android app. He also founded Playground of Empathy, a 501C3 (‘the Educating Empathy Foundation) with a creative mission to educate, research and support empathic communities.
For nearly 2 decades, Micah has designed empathic experiences applying research on the science of emotions. Pioneering behavioral design in the Netherlands, he advised on experiential concepts with organizations such as Google, Disney, Microsoft, and projects for flourishing across social divides with the Finnish and Swedish governments, and the Diabetes Fund.
Micah believes ‘empathy’ is not nor ever could be, ‘our ability to understand how someone feels’. First, scientifically, we never know how someone feels. He applies this research which has created a facilitated experience and an app that is changing the paradigm of how we learn through experience, resulting in increasing empathy while decreasing bias and polarization on an organizational and national scale. Under his direction, Empathable’s core concept was pitched and became a winning recipient of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund Award in 2020, granted by their joint council of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
The Empathable Experience has been shared with over 100 organizations, including the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, at the Black in Design Conference, and multiple Fortune 50 companies. He has presented his work at Harvard Medical School, the Society for Neuroscience and Creativity, The Boston Museum of Science, Darden School of Business, and was a 2019 Byron fellow.
Empathable's flagship immersive learning program uses empathy to provide a proven way to boost team and client engagement, while heightening leadership and management connectivity.
As a researcher, Micah also advises as in the design of social science interventions for various labs that study bias, emotions, and empathy, and have a scientist-practitioner partnership with the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, at UNC Chapel Hill.
Listen as Micah shares:
- the real meaning of empathy
- the benefits and perils of listening to our emotions
- how to celebrate each other's different experiences
- the meaning of 'emotional belonging'
- how to make radical change without changing the radicals
- how to get buy-in when you are not aligned
- the benefits and power of empathy
- the different types of biases
- race, gender, nationality and the conceptualization of fear
- ways to stop labeling others
...and so much more!
Connect with Micah:
Website: https://empathable.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-j-wonjoon-kessel-07723244/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empathable/
Connect with me on:
Email: roberta4sk@gmail.com
Kindly subscribe to our podcast and leave a rating and a review. Thank you :)
Listen to Speaking and Communications Podcast:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2jpmqutBoMlnyStQ5YoNl2
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-develop-empathy-w-micah-kessel/id1614151066?i=1000591673066
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Yk8pW0BSpI
Can you have empathy for someone from a different background?
Micah J. Wonjoon Kessel is the I’m CEO of Empathable. They are making the world’s first ‘walk in the shoes’ iOS and Android app. He also founded Playground of Empathy, a 501C3 (‘the Educating Empathy Foundation) with a creative mission to educate, research and support empathic communities.
For nearly 2 decades, Micah has designed empathic experiences applying research on the science of emotions. Pioneering behavioral design in the Netherlands, he advised on experiential concepts with organizations such as Google, Disney, Microsoft, and projects for flourishing across social divides with the Finnish and Swedish governments, and the Diabetes Fund.
Micah believes ‘empathy’ is not nor ever could be, ‘our ability to understand how someone feels’. First, scientifically, we never know how someone feels. He applies this research which has created a facilitated experience and an app that is changing the paradigm of how we learn through experience, resulting in increasing empathy while decreasing bias and polarization on an organizational and national scale. Under his direction, Empathable’s core concept was pitched and became a winning recipient of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund Award in 2020, granted by their joint council of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
The Empathable Experience has been shared with over 100 organizations, including the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, at the Black in Design Conference, and multiple Fortune 50 companies. He has presented his work at Harvard Medical School, the Society for Neuroscience and Creativity, The Boston Museum of Science, Darden School of Business, and was a 2019 Byron fellow.
Empathable's flagship immersive learning program uses empathy to provide a proven way to boost team and client engagement, while heightening leadership and management connectivity.
As a researcher, Micah also advises as in the design of social science interventions for various labs that study bias, emotions, and empathy, and have a scientist-practitioner partnership with the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, at UNC Chapel Hill.
Listen as Micah shares:
- the real meaning of empathy
- the benefits and perils of listening to our emotions
- how to celebrate each other's different experiences
- the meaning of 'emotional belonging'
- how to make radical change without changing the radicals
- how to get buy-in when you are not aligned
- the benefits and power of empathy
- the different types of biases
- race, gender, nationality and the conceptualization of fear
- ways to stop labeling others
...and so much more!
Connect with Micah:
Website: https://empathable.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-j-wonjoon-kessel-07723244/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empathable/
Connect with me on:
Email: roberta4sk@gmail.com
Kindly subscribe to our podcast and leave a rating and a review. Thank you :)
Listen to Speaking and Communications Podcast:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2jpmqutBoMlnyStQ5YoNl2
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-develop-empathy-w-micah-kessel/id1614151066?i=1000591673066
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Yk8pW0BSpI
