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Empathy and Self-Care Strategies

For Adults

Adults at school play a very critical role in the lives of youth. With increasing demands on educators and school staff, it is important that there are deliberate actions taken to care for themselves. Self-care is necessary, so that staff are prepared to be there in the moment for students.

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Self-Care for School Staff

For Students

Empathy

Why is Empathy Important? Because it helps us understand how others are feeling so we can respond appropriately to the situation. It is seeing the world through another’s eyes.

Self-Care

Self-care is to engage in the activities that improves overall health including physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual components of an individual’s well-being.19

Activities and Resources to Promote Empathy and Self-Care

Self-Care Strategies
Self-care strategies that can be used in your group or classroom to help students develop their own strategies to make sure in times of most stress, they care for themselves.

Empathy and Resilience
Almost every book and movie below has threads of resilience and threads of empathy to tease out for deeper discussion. It is up to the supervising adult advisor to initiate these conversations with youth. You want to make sure that whenever their time is spent engaging with forms of media, there is a powerful “take home” message that they can apply to their attitudinal and behavioral choices.

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Movies and Books on Empathy

Movies

The Breakfast Club

Inside Out

The King’s Speech

Les Misérables

Lucas

Pete’s Dragon

Sling Blade

Zootopia

Books

The Breadwinner

El Deafo

Empathy in Your Classroom

Inside Out and Back Again

Night

The One and Only Ivan

Out of My Mind

Same Sun Here

Third Thursday Session on Empathy

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wonder

Movies and Books on Resilience

Movies

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

The Blind Side

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Facing the Giants

The Fault in Our Stars

Finding Forrester

Freedom Writers

Books

The Count of Monte Cristo

Fish in a Tree

The Grapes of Wrath

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Of Human Bondage

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