Empathy Is a Verb
An interview with Dr. Michele Borba
Welcome back to Skilling Me Softly! Hope you were able to enjoy the holiday break.
We’re back in action, and in today’s post, I’m delighted to share with you a brief eight-min. snippet from an interview I did with Dr. Michele Borba for College Guidance Network.
Michele Borba is a phenomenal educator, educational psychologist, and parenting child expert who has written over 24 books on children’s character development, resilience, and solution-based strategies to combating bullying and peer cruelty. I still can’t get over that number: 24.
The two of us like to call each other “One L” and “Two L” when we greet each other. One-L Michele has written more books than any of us ever will, and in this snippet, she walks through her most recent book, Thrivers.
I love this book because it’s the closest thing you’ll get to a parenting manual. Thrivers uses teenage perspectives today to inform how we might rethink our parenting with more of a focus on building confidence, self-control, resilience, empathy, curiosity, perseverance, and optimism in children who can thrive in the future.
Enjoy this short clip, and remember: Empathy is a verb.
Dr. Michelle R. Weise is the author of Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet and leads Rise and Design, a strategic consulting and advisory service for businesses and higher education institutions.
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