What is empathy? Is it sympathy? In Satvatove’s Transformative Communication model we make a distinction between empathy and sympathy. Sympathy can involve pity, or feeling bad for someone. Most of us sometimes appreciate a sort of pity party once in a while- “I feel so bad for you”- and there’s a place for that. But […]
Association In the late 90s, after the first Satvatove Foundational Courses, we found that course graduates naturally continued their association with each other. Subsequent to the Advanced Courses, which began in 2002, this tendency showed itself even stronger, with seminar participants meeting together in-person and forming email conferences, long after the seminar experience had ended. […]