Introduction to Functional Empathy in Coaching

Functional Empathy (FE) is an approach that helps empathic coaches, leaders, and professionals to use their empathic abilities as their strongest skill set, create healthy relationships, and help others unlock their potential and create optimal performance. During this introduction to FE, you will learn about three core concepts of Functional Empathy (FE): Cycle of Depletion, Levels of Empathic Engagement, and Functional Empathy Roles.

You will start to see empathy as your biggest strength and learn to apply it as a skill set to improve your coaching and leadership and start applying FE in your workplace. You will be able to identify what different FE roles you play unconsciously, and which roles you ideally would want to play to promote high levels of motivation and performance in your team or work environment. In this session, you will gain hands-on experience applying a core FE exercise that will support you, and the people you work with, to identify eight different approaches to empathy, and advance ways of engaging, listening, and managing conversation. This session includes hands-on practice, handouts, personal reflections, and time for Q&A.