Empathy

What is Empathy?
Empathy is the ability to understand a person's feelings or problems.

Do you have empathy?
Can you understand your friend's feelings?
Are you able to know what are they going through?
Do you have the same thought like them?

For this year Singapore Kindness Movement, Orchid Park Secondary School will be organizing events to show Empathy in our school. Do check out our blog to see what are we up too and updates! :)

Our OPSS SKM leaders with Singa at the SKM workshop

Our OPSS SKM leaders with Singa at the SKM workshop

Saturday, 25 August 2012

Thursday morning, 23rd August 2012

As usual, we did our morning greeting. Thank you to all who wrote how they felt on that morning :)






















Saturday, 11 August 2012

Empathy Quotes

“One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.” - Moliere

“The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.” - Daniel Goleman

“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” - Rachel Naomi Remen

Buddy class!

We got class 4A1 and 3S1 to write their problems down individually on pieces of paper and they can leave them anonymous as long as they mark it so that they can recognise it after. After both classes had written their problems on pieces of paper, we swapped the letters between both classes to randomly respond anonymously either as form of writing possible solutions, emphatic words of encouragement or support to the pieces of "problems" they picked out before returning to their respective classes. 3S1 was thrilled with the responses from their "secret senior angels" of 4A1 indeed and were heartened that their seniors took the effort and trouble to write sincerely back to them even though it was all anonymous. Now 4A1 anxiously waits for 3S1 to respond to their problems as well. Let's keep empathy going! :D