Empathy
What is empathy?
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes
What is a healthy relationship?
Open, honest, assertive communication
healthy verbal, physical, emotional boundaries
remaining your own person/takes time to participate in own hobbies
What is sympathy?
Feeling sorry for someone or something
What are some functions of the brain?
How do you define a boundary?
Expectation, rule, or guideline for a relationship.
If someone is struggling with feeling depressed, I would...
Try putting myself in their shoes and try to understand how they would feel. Offer to listen to their feelings. Ask if they would like support or solutions
If someone in the relationship crosses a verbal boundary such as yelling, how would you handle it?
walk away/come back and discuss boundaries and how that made you feel using I statements
If a friend lost their job, how would you sympathize?
Saying your are sorry for their loss, reminding there are better jobs
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What is a verbal boundary?
How we speak to one another/what topics are okay or not/what tone of voice is acceptable
What are three different ways to show empathy?
Understanding where someone is coming from
Being a good listener/Being supportive
Offering things that helped you in the past
Anxious attachment style
Name 3 different ways to show sympathy
Apologizing when things are hard, sending get well cards/ sending a text that you are thinking of them
What part of your brain houses your personality?
Frontal lobe
What are the three ways we measure our boundaries?
Porous, rigid, healthy
How would you show empathy towards someone experiencing heart break?
Listening to their feelings/Offering a coping skill that helped you in the past
Rigid boundaries, lack of trust, runs away/shuts down to avoid conflict or rejection
When does one show sympathy vs. empathy?
sympathy towards acquaintance or if you are unable to understand or relate to their struggle
Empathy in close relationships/when you care for someone/when you are able to listen to their experience
Visual processing, distance and depth perception, color, face recognition
True or false
Boundaries are necessary for a healthy relationships?
True
Empathy - putting yourself in someone's shoes through active listening and effort to understand/ Relating due to also experiencing what they are currently experiencing and reminding yourself of how that felt
Sympathy- Feeling sorry for the person
What are three green flags in relationships?
What are three red flags in relationships?
Open communication/Independent lifestyle/Boundaries are present
Need for constant reassurance/Control or manipulation/verbal or physical abuse
"I cant imagine how bad this is for you"
"I know what that feels like"
"I am sorry to hear that"
"what I am hearing you say is you feel..."
sympathy
empathy
sympathy
empathy
What part of the brain holds your memories?
hippocampus
Name 5 types of boundaries and give an example
Answers may vary/facilitator preference