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Get ready for Empathy Action Month
Plan your month now and mark Empathy Action Month in your diaries - November 2024. It’s an extension of the wider Empathy Day campaign, and focuses on making a difference in the world by putting empathy into action.
New resources to support educators
As children return to school after a troubling summer of violence and unrest, EmpathyLab has curated free resources to help support educators, including a FREE resource pack in partnership with UKLA.
As children return to school after a troubling summer of violence and unrest, EmpathyLab has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and sent out a press release to call for empathy skills to be included on the curriculum.
Download the guides to the Read for Empathy collections
The Read for Empathy book collections have been created as a practical tool to help young people learn more about empathy and put it into action. This year's collection has 65 wonderful titles for 3-16 year olds.
Sign up for our short training courses
We have two new short training courses this autumn. They
equip you with powerful new strategies to use books to develop young people’s understanding of empathy, and their empathy skills.
Get author inspiration for learning about empathy
For the first time this year, we streamed live author and illustrator events on #EmpathyDay. They featured world-leading authors and illustrators, including Michael Rosen, talking about empathy and modelling empathy activites. Watch the Empathy Day Live! events when the time suits you.
Become an EmpathyLab affiliate school
Our Affiliate Schools programme develops and embeds empathy as a core skill, value and practice across your school community. Take a look at the empathy skills we help you develop in children and the staff training we offer.
Explore our corporate training offering
We are delighted to offer an Empathy Foundation Workshop for companies, designed to harness the power of empathy in your business.
Use
our children's empathy handbook
In just SIX simple steps readers are inspired to develop empathy as their human SUPERPOWER, and discover how it can change their lives and the world around them for the better.
Using books to build empathy
Our definition of empathy is the ability to experience and understand other people's feelings and points of view. We believe it is a core life skill every child deserves the chance to develop, and a force for social change.
Our strategy is based on scientific research showing that empathy is a learnable skill, and that books are a practical, powerful tool to build it. Read our background research to learn more.
With hate crimes, polarisation and mental health problems all on the rise, we passionately believe society needs new empathy-focused strategies to help us all understand and support each other better.
