This activity by the UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center walks individuals through a process of developing empathy for others, including those who could be seen as “enemies.” The reflection begins with compassion for friends and moves outwards toward enemies and toward the world at large, an important skill when crossing the divide between people with widely divergent values (Practice M1).
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Compassion meditation
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Empathy
Video
1 minutes
By: IDEO
Logical fallacies
Video
7 minutes
By: Mometrix Academy
Classroom contexts survey
Tool
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Taking multiple perspectives
Video
3 minutes
By: Cultivating Leadership
How classroom political discussions—controversies, too—prepare students for needed civic participation
Article
10 minutes
By: Holly Korbey, KQED