Building a Culture of Empathy with Empathy Activist, Edwin Rutsch (MDE475)

Minter Dialogue with Edwin Rutsch Edwin Rutsch is founder of the Culture of Empathy and has spent the last couple of decades spreading empathy, helping to bridge social and political divides. He has built an academic empathy training literature database (wiki), and has launched himself as a politician. In this conversation, we discuss his journey, his driving purpose, the value of empathy in life and politics, the Empathy Circle that he co-created with Lidewij Niezink, his Empathy Tent actions and much more.   If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to [email protected]; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.