Empathy & Emotional Awareness Ft. Karla McLaren w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy
Watch this episode to discover how understanding and expressing your emotions can enhance your self-awareness and mindfulness.
Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, educator, workplace consultant, and social science researcher. Her groundbreaking model, The Six Essential Aspects of Empathy, explores the conditions required for successful empathizing to occur. In this episode, Karla discusses those different styles of empathy, as well as how our emotions influence our capacity to empathize.
00:00 Preview
00:28 Introduction
00:18 About Karla McLaren
02:31 Karla’s backstory
05:03 Karla's journey of learning from emotions
08:13 Practices to identify emotions
10:56 The importance of self-awareness
12:48 Why mindfulness helps us sense our emotions
15:18 Understanding empathic styles
17:45 What is the “state matching” form of empathy?
21:55 Empathic communication practices
25:18 How can parents read emotions with empathy?
30:22 Six fears of emotions
33:47 Strategies to overcome exam anxiety
37:11 Karla McLaren’s Purposeful Empathy story
CONNECT WITH ANITA
✩ Email purposefulempathy@gmail.com
✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com
✩ Buy a copy of Purposeful Empathy http://tiny.cc/PurposefulEmpathyCA
✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/
✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram
✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast
CONNECT WITH KARLA
✩ Email info@emotiondynamics.org
✩ Website https://karlamclaren.com/a-new-community-space/
✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-mclaren-m-ed-17b947a2/
✩ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karlamclaren.m.ed/
SHOW NOTES
✩ The Language of Emotions
✩ Empathy Academy
Video edited by David Tsvariani