SXSW: Michael Tennant Unlocking The Power of Empathy
"Practicing empathy" as a tool for unlocking healing, personal growth, wealth, love, purpose, support, and happiness. Inspired by Brené Brown's The Power of Vulnerability, Simon Sinek's The Power of Why, and Seth Godin's Quieting The Lizard Brain, Unlocking The Power of Empathy explains how to use empathy as a tool for healing, personal growth, productivity, and happiness.
In this hour-long keynote talk entrepreneur and author of The Power of Empathy, Michael Tennant, explains the importance of empathy as a tool for connection and well-being, and how following his Five Phases of Empathy model has helped him to unlock healing, personal growth, wealth, love, purpose, support, and happiness - and can do the same for you!
00:18 About Michael
00:59 A mission to make "practicing empathy" Mainstream
01:54 Michael's empathy ecosystem
03:33 Community Icebreaker
05:43 Intention Setting Question, a habit, and gift for yourself - CLIP
07:02 The purpose of this talk: "to help you overcome challenges using empathy"
09:28 WHY Empathy? Burnout, Mental Health Issues, Violence…
15:13 Empathy as a solution
18:04 A need to study "empathy" more to validate it and get it funded
18:31 Michael's major contribution to date
18:47 The "Five Phases of Empathy" and structure of the book The Power of Empathy
21:43 Phase One: The Language of Feelings & how I went from grieving, anxious, and fired from work to speaking at SXSW, meeting Felecia hatcher, and winning an investment from Pharrell Williams
25:45 Somatic Check-In for the community
26:25 Phase Two: The Importance of Intention & how I used my values and purpose to heal a broken heart and spark an empathy movement
29:13 "A productive trauma response"
36:22 Phase Three: Channeling Purpose & how I used awareness of my purpose and my emotions to manifest an "empathy teaching model" and the book The Power of Empathy
39:47 Phase Four: From Empathy to Impact & how I use emotional awareness to overcome fear and internal narratives and to audit and expand my time investment and network in powerful ways
45:08 Mentorship and advice from mentor Shawn Dove author of the book I Too Am America
47:47 Phase Five: Living with Abundance & how I use The Power of Empathy to find emotional hurdles and to quickly address areas of desired growth
53:39 Phase Six: Sharing Our gifts & a call for support for the movement to spread empathy. Are you empathy curious? An empathy validator? An empathy amplifier?
56:36 Closing meditation