Often, empathy is talked about and practiced on an interpersonal level, between two individuals. At times, empathy is also seen as and engaged with at an intrapersonal level, when we start to become aware of our different, internal emotional states and experience increased self-understanding. Less often, empathy is understood as happening on a social or societal level, where we may be able to learn about and relate more deeply with what whole groups, groups that we may or may not belong to, are feeling and experiencing. But this kind of social empathy may be crucial to full-spectrum empathic knowledge and wisdom. And social compersion, joy for other groups' joy, may be necessary for a more just and peaceful world. What helps you experience social compersion?
[image description: A heart with a mop of dark, kinky hair smiles out at the viewer against a pattern of deep red, brown, and golden waves and sparkles. Text reads: "social compersion" and above that, "Toward black, queer, disabled joy."]
#MindfulHearts retrospective.
On this day 2021.
On this day 2020.
On this day 2019.
Celebrating three years of daily cartoons.
On this day 2021.
On this day 2020.
On this day 2019.
Celebrating three years of daily cartoons.
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