About EmpathyWorks Learning Center
Our Mission—The EmpathyWorks Project is dedicated to delivering training in emotional intelligence and support for emotional well-being to healthcare practitioners, professionals and broad segments of society via digital technologies.
We Believe
Each person has a natural desire to optimize their relational fitness with others in order to achieve their fullest potential.
Empathy is the highest form of emotional intelligence, the key to optimizing relational fitness and sustaining happy, healthy and productive relationships, vital to personal success in life.
Empathic ability is a hard-wired potential and like language, requires development and practice to develop beyond rudimentary levels.
Empathy is not a mystery and can be deconstructed and learned in a fun, organic and step-by-step process.
A society that values and practices empathy will be a more harmonious and productive society.
Our Goals
Provide practical and sustainable tools that enhance emotional intelligence & empathy-skills, improve positive outcomes and promote professional and personal efficacy.
Provide a comprehensive learning process that strengthens specific skills key to empathic attunement (e.g. empathic listening, empathic inquiry, mirroring and feedback, and repairing breaks in empathy).
Integrate theoretical constructs and experiential learning with Empathy Games® and interactive exercises in a fun, organic and transformational process. (See detailed description of the Organic Learning Method)
Provide participants with immediate feedback on their empathic ability employing our newly developed EMQ (empathy quotient) a unique non-self-reporting method of measuring empathic accuracy.
Strengthen respect for cultural, individual, and role differences through greater empathic awareness and sensitivity to all aspects of age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, cultural, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic status.
Bios
Christopher A. Scott LCSW-R, CGP
Chief Executive Officer
Chris is Clinical Director at Village Counseling VCCP in NYC and has been in clinical practice for over 30 years. He is a Group Analyst and Certified Couples Therapist, with a specialty in training individual, couple and group therapists.
Currently, Chris serves on the faculty of Adelphi University, the Training Institute for Mental Health, and has served as Associate Director of the Psychoanalytic Society & Institute’s…
Cynthia Dickason-Scott
Chief Operating Officer
Cynthia Dickason-Scott is a media Executive Producer and award-winning Creative Director, with a unique production operations and creative skill-set. With expertise in launching new cable television networks, multi-media projects and strategic communications, Cynthia was part of the original launch team for A&E and Lifetime Television networks, and spent the majority of her career at HBO, where she was responsible for the programming/operations launch of HBO International ventures, creative direction for the on-air rebrand of multiplex channels and the creation & development…