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 share implementation models involving youth mentoring and youth leadership that have been developed, tested, and proven to work in Ireland.
The talk will also introduce the fledgling model of a UNESCO Empathy and Engaged Citizenship Observatory currently under design as a future framework for a better world for youth and civic society. 🌎
