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- 3 days of multidisciplinary, multicultural, multisector exploration of empathy
- 14 experiential workshops
- 10 thought-provoking talks
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Designing for Empathy Summit 2024 - Theme
Theme of Summit 2024: "alchemy of empathy"
We will be exploring those qualities, or the ingredients, of the alchemy of empathy, which are found in transformative experiences that leave us with new paradigms, perspectives, insights and understanding, all leading to an expanded sense of self that is aware of our interconnected existence within all of humanity and the planet --the oneness of being. Our hearts have the capacity to discern such qualities like beauty, trust, sincerity, justice, and love. Empathy is a key that can open windows from heart to heart.
Designing for Empathy® SUMMIT 2024 - preliminary AGENDA
DAY 1 | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23
8:30 - 8:45 AM
Arrival & Check-in
8:45 - 9:00 AM
Welcome Remarks
by Brian Henderson, Director, Glencairn Museum
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Tour of the Glencairn Museum
by Amy Glenn, Educational Programs Manager, Glencairn Museum
10:00 - 10:15 AM | Break
10:15 - 11:00 AM
WORKSHOP | The Object of My Empathy --A Non-Judgmental Listening Circle
by Elif M. Gokcigdem, PhD, Founder, ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy
Co-facilitated by: Amy Glenn, Educational Programs Manager, Glencairn Museum
& Andrea Jones, Principal, The Peak Experience Lab
with special guest: Amir Etemadzadeh, Composer
11:00 - 11:15 AM | Break
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
PRESENTATION | Designing for Empathy with the Oneness Mindset
by Elif M. Gokcigdem, PhD, Founder, ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy
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12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch at the Glencairn Museum
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1:00 - 2:00 PM
WORKSHOP | Experience the "Heart" at the Glencairn Museum (Part 1)
by Amy Glenn, Educational Programs Manager, Glencairn Museum
2:00 - 2:15 PM | Break
2:15 - 2:45 PM
WORKSHOP | Experience the "Heart" at the Glencairn Museum (Part 2)
by Amy Glenn, Educational Programs Manager, Glencairn Museum
2:45 - 3:00 PM | Break & Transition to Outdoors
3:00 - 3:45 PM
WORKSHOP | Environmental Connection through Empathy
by Jim Wharton, PhD, CEO, Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo
3:45 - 4:00 PM | Break & Transition to Cairnwood Estate
4:00 - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP | Kinesthetic Empathy: Leveraging the Apprenticeship Model (Part 1)
by Andrew Nemr, Nemr Institute
& Lidewij Niezink, PhD, Empathic Intervision
DAY 2 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
9:00 - 9:15 AM
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE by Amir Etemadzadeh, Composer
9:15 - 10:00 AM
PRESENTATION | Offering and Seeking Empathy through Poetry
by Zeina Azzam, Poet Laureate, City of Alexandria, Virginia
10:00 - 10:10 AM | Break
10:10 - 10:50 AM
WORKSHOP - A MUSICAL DOCUMENTARY | Unfinished Business: From the Great Migration to Black Lives Matter
by Dr. Stephanie C. Boddie, Associate Professor of Church and Community Ministries, Baylor University
10:50 - 11:00 AM | Break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
PRESENTATION | The Varieties of Empathy: Connecting to Yourself, Others, and the World
by Susan Lanzoni, Writer & Historian of Science, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
11:20 - 11:30 AM | Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP | Creative Tensions: What is Home?
by Elif M. Gokcigdem, PhD, Founder, ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy
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12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch at the Glencairn Museum
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1:00 - 1:30 PM
PRESENTATION | AI and Human Thriving Outcomes
by Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Banks Chair of AI and the Arts, Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida
1:30 -1:35 PM | Break
1:35 - 2:05 PM
PRESENTATION | ProjectUs.ai - Using AI to Build Empathy in the Workplace
by Daniel Vargas-Diaz, Head of Learning, ProjectUs.ai
2:05 - 2:15 PM | Break
2:15 - 3:15 PM
WORKSHOP | Sharing Our Human-Centered Workplace Practices Will Uplift Us All
by Micah Parzen, PhD, JD, CEO, Museum of Us
3:15 - 3:25 PM | Break
3:25 - 4:10 PM
WORKSHOP | Complex Thinking through Art to Foster Empathy
by Julie Carmean, Senior Museum Educator & Manager of National Teacher Programs, The National Gallery of Art
4:10 - 4:20 PM | Break
4:20 - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP | Experience Oneness with Sacred Music Rooted in Middle Eastern and Sufi Traditions
by Amir Etemadzadeh, Composer
5:00 - 6:00 PM | Optional, self-guided visits at the Glencairn Cathedral
DAY 3 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
9:00 - 9:15 AM
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE by Amir Etemadzadeh, Composer
9:15 - 10:00 AM
PRESENTATION | Museum Practice as an Act of Citizenship. Democracy Needs Us!
by Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, Director Emerita, The Phillips Collection
10:00 - 10:15 AM | Break
10:15 - 11:00 AM
PRESENTATION | Radical Curiosity and Courageous Empathy: Cultivating Empathy in Tumultuous Times
by Susie Wilkening, Principal, Wilkening Consulting
11:00 - 11:15 AM | Break
11:15 - 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP | The Critical Response Process as a Tool to Measure Impact: Practices from the Worlds of Dance and Theater
by Monique Davis, Director of the Center for Art and Public Exchange (CAPE) &Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, Mississippi Museum of Art
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12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch at the Glencairn Museum
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1:00 - 1:15 PM
RESEARCH UPDATE | Museums as Incubators of Evidence-Based Empathy-Building | Does Fostering Empathy for Animals with Disabilities Cross-over to Humans with Disabilities?
by Marta Burnet, PhD, Director of Advancing Empathy, Woodland Park Zoo
1:15 - 1:30 PM
RESEARCH UPDATE | Museums as Incubators of Evidence-Based Empathy-Building | Mirror to the World: Art as a Vehicle to Create Empathic Understanding
by Rebekah Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University
1:30 - 1:40 PM | Break
1:40 - 2:40 PM
WORKSHOP | An Empathy-Building MAP: Meaning, Awareness, Potential
by Elif M. Gokcigdem, PhD, Founder, ONE - Organization of Networks for Empathy
Co-facilitated by: Amy Glenn, Director of Education, Glencairn Museum
& Jamie Lawyer, Chief Experience Officer, The Rubin Museum of Art
2:40 - 2:50 PM | Break
2:50 - 3:00 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT | DESIGNING FOR EMPATHY STUDENT AWARDS
by Professor Brenda Cowan, Graduate Exhibition & Experience Design, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology
3:00 - 3:30 PM
WORKSHOP | Objects Are Agents of Empathy
by Professor Brenda Cowan, Graduate Exhibition & Experience Design, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology
3:30 - 3:40 PM | Break
3:40 - 4:10 PM
WORKSHOP | Kinesthetic Empathy: Leveraging the Apprenticeship Model (Part 2)
by Andrew Nemr, Nemr Institute
& Lidewij Niezink, PhD, Empathic Intervision
4:10 - 4:20 PM | Break
4:20 - 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP | Improvised Takeaways & Commitments with Andrew Nemr, Nemr Institute
& Summit participants
5:00 - 6:00 PM | Reception at the Glencairn Museum - Cloisters