While the relationship between proven models of youth engaged empathy education leading to greater prosocial behaviours has been well established its actual implementation, across self, family, school, community and society has been not been given equal attention. This talk will focus on three core functions in this regard:
- The essence of activated empathy and kindness by youth for others as an enabler of self-resilience and social support enlistment.
- The links between empathy and positive youth development theory specifically to Lerner’s ‘5 Cs’ and as a mechanism for the development of better intergenerational relationships.
- The importance of viewing positive youth development as part of the reciprocal socio-ecological systems from youth (micro) to society (chrono) will be explored.
Dr. Sean Campbell, CEO of Foróige, (Ireland’s leading and largest youth NGO) will present and share a set of implementation models from youth mentoring to youth leadership curriculum that have been developed tested and proven models in Ireland.
The talk will also introduce the fledgling model to develop for a UNESCO Empathy and Engaged Citizenship Observatory currently under design as a future framework for a better world for youth and civic society.
