Course Overview
Why learn cognitive empathy?
We live and work in increasingly complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Cognitive empathy – being able to put ourselves in others’ shoes and figure out how they think – is key to thriving, whether for policy, business or security reasons. This course draws on long traditions and the latest research to provide a structure for, and skills in, worldview mapping and understanding where others are coming from.
Many business, public policy and political failures can be attributed to a lack of cognitive empathy. Decision makers did not understand how the public, or voters, or other cultures, thought and therefore their proposed actions did not work as intended. This course will help you avoid these failures and build greater strengths. It is also a powerful tool for better integrating genuine diversity into your work.
Everything can help you individually or be adopted as a team or organisation process – with learnings easily shareable.
What you will learn
This cutting edge course integrates insights from philosophy, sociology and psychology to teach you a repeatable, but flexible, approach to map the worldviews of others. This structured approach identifies intellectual commitments, values and ethics, and foundational psychological attitudes and then teaches you how to bring them to life as a whole, and thereby building intellectual empathy. This holistic approach can be applied with minor alteration to individuals, groups or cultures.
The course is built around you doing and learning this style of analysis as you go, so you will learn practical skills in cognitive empathy under expert guidance. Your analysis will leave you with a product and understanding of someone else or group of your choosing as you learn by doing the analysis.
What to expect
This is a highly interactive, potentially demanding, course where you will learn by doing the analysis, not just listening to presentations. You will work through the analysis approach on a real case study and learn important principles and insights from the world research as you go.
As you work at building cognitive empathy and seeing the world as someone else might, you will need to put any personal judgements aside. You will likely not agree with the other person, but learn the value of understanding something of how they think and see the world. Please note this course can be personally challenging as it may provokes self-examination and reflection.
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