Category:Stories from the road
Corona… Stay alert!
The COVID-19 crisis found me in the beautiful Pokhara of Nepal. I was enjoying the serene background, hiking up the cliffs and hills on weekends, planning when I would go to the jungle, while on weekdays I was starting at my new job with a local NGO and planning my activities there. In early March, …
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How a moment of connection taught me more about empathy than all my classes
Empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) For the purposes of multicultural psychology class …
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