Building a Culture of Empathy
8/1/21 - 8/7/21
Creating understanding and compassion, empathy is critical in navigating our world and building community. Empathy might have a reputation associated with emotionality or sentimentality, but what does it look like in action, from improving health care via the doctor-patient relationship and fostering strong childhood development to implementing effective public policy and leading through times of crisis?
Instilling and normalizing empathy has the potential to help us connect across our most polarizing differences and survive our most tragic times, so how can we work together to build a lasting culture of empathy?
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Cheryl Strayed
Originally broadcast at 10:30 a.m. ET Monday, August 2, 2021.
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, the host of the New York Times podcast “Sugar Calling” and also “Dear Sugars,” which she co-hosted with Steve Almond, and for many years the voice of “Dear...
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Brian D. McLaren
Originally broadcast at 1:00 p.m. ET Monday, August 2, 2021.
Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths...
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions
Originally broadcast at 10:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, August 3, 2021.
Frans B. M. de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates, whose latest research concerns empathy and cooperation, inequity aversion and social cognitio...
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Edgar Rodriguez
Originally broadcast at 1:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, August 3, 2021.
Edgar Rodriguez serves concurrently as Police Chief of Moville Police Department and lead Pastor of New Hope Evangelical church in Moville, Iowa. In both vocations he embodies the best for what can be expected and hoped.
Born in Pie...
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Doktor Kaboom!
Originally broadcast at 7:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, August 3, 2021.
David Epley grew up expecting to be a research physicist. Then a biomedical engineer. Then a mathematician, an astrophysicist, a chemical engineer and a marine biologist. So, of course, he became an actor. Enter — Doktor Kaboom! Dokto...
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The Future of Policing: What's Empathy Got to Do with It?
Originally broadcast at 10:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, August 4, 2021.
Jackie Acho founded The Acho Group, a strategy and leadership consulting firm, in 2005. She has worked for technology, industrial, academic, nonprofit, and economic development clients on a variety of issues, with particular focus ...
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Courtney Cogburn
Originally broadcast at 10:30 a.m. ET Thursday, August 5, 2021.
Courtney Cogburn is co-director of the Columbia School of Social Work’s Justice, Equity, Technology (JET) Lab, and the lead creator of “1000 Cut Journey,” an immersive virtual reality experience simulating the experience of Blacks f...
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Jose Arellano and Steve Avalos
Originally broadcast at 1:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, August 4, 2021.
Jose Arellano was born in Duarte, CA, just east of Los Angeles. Growing up, he and his family moved around Los Angeles County a lot. Jose enjoyed and excelled in school and was placed in the Gifted and Talented Education Program at ...
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2021 Chautauqua Prize Ceremony
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday, August 5, 2021.
2021 Chautauqua Prize Ceremony and Reading. Eula Biss, author of Having and Being Had
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes ali...
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AAHH Wes Moore
Originally broadcast at 1:00 p.m. ET Friday August 6, 2021.
Wes Moore, currently a candidate for governor of Maryland, previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty forces in the nation. He is a bestselling author, a combat veteran, and a social ...
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Buffalo Day
Originally broadcast at 3:00 p.m. ET Friday August 6, 2021.
12th Annual Buffalo Day at Chautauqua "Building a Culture of Empathy: From Franciscan Spirituality to Schweitzer"s 'Reverence for Life' Ethic"
This interfaith conversation features panelists Fr. Jud Weiksnar, OFM pastor at Ss. Columba...
