This is the empathic help manifesto. If you agree with a statement in a Click to Tweet box, share it out on Twitter. Take a stand on your empathic or emotional sensitivity.
What We Stand For
Empathic sensitivity is a blessing, not a curse.
Emotionally sensitive people have gifts to be cultivated, not spurned.
We are emotional beings.
Being emotional is normal and healthy.
We validate and encourage emotional experiences.
Being emotional is normal and healthy.
Every human can develop emotional competency with guidance and training.
Emotional competency leads to emotional intelligence. Therefore, we focus on developing emotional competency, not on measuring emotional intelligence.
We believe that the goal of education should be to teach critical thinking and emotional competency side by side.
We take personal responsibility for our emotional experiences.
We do not take responsibility for other's emotional experiences.
We connect to others and ourselves through our emotions.
We connect to others and ourselves through our emotions.
We believe that strength comes from emotional competency.
We believe that ultimate happiness requires emotional competency.
We believe that life is far more meaningful when we validate other people's emotional experience.
We believe that emotional awareness and competency requires great personal courage.
Peace is only achievable through emotional competency.
Peace is only achievable through emotional competency.
Justice, at its foundation, is the experience of being heard.
People only feel heard when they are emotionally validated.
We experience egolessness and selflessness as a natural result of reflecting the emotions of others.
Listening others into existence only occurs when we validate emotional experiences.
Justice, at its foundation, is the experience of being heard.
Emotional invalidation is insidious, pervasive, and abusive.
Emotional invalidation is especially abusive to children.
What We Reject
We reject the myth that humans are solely rational beings.
We reject the ideas of those philosophers and theologians of the past who believed that rationality was the highest human state.
We reject the judgment that being emotional is bad.
We reject emotional invalidation in every form, especially when it occurs to children.
We reject the myth that humans are solely rational beings.
We reject the idea that emotional invalidation "toughens" children up.
We reject any educational system that emphasizes rationality at the expense of emotional competency.
We reject the myth of the rugged individualist.
We reject the idea of keeping a stiff upper lip.
We reject the idea that emotions make us weak and vulnerable.
We reject any educational system that emphasizes rationality at the expense of emotional competency.
What We Practice and Teach
We practice and teach skills based on empirical data, not anecdote.
We teach "the how," not the what.
We reject the idea that emotions make us weak and vulnerable.
What We Will Not Teach
We will not teach or practice skills not based on science.
We will not teach "What."
We will not teach skills that do not work.
We will not teach skills that soothe anxiety, but do not build emotional competency
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