Watch our Empathy Action Month activity on demand!
We've had an amazing time this Empathy Action Month! Catch up on all our exclusive activity from this November, available
on demand.
It's never to late to make an
Empathy Resolution - download your template today!
Watch Exclusive Empathy Action Month Videos
LIVE NOW: check out the Empathy Action Month 2023 round up!
School Videos
Watch the students of Moorlands Primary School share their Resolutions, empathy reading recommendations, and more!
Watch the students of Treorchy Comprehensive School share ways they’re putting empathy into action!
Author Videos
How did A.M. Dassu get on with her
Empathy Resolutions?
How did Michael Mann get on with his
Empathy Resolutions?
LAUNCH: Put Empathy into Action with
Rashmi Sirdeshpande
Exclusive interview with author Brian Conaghan featuring High School of Glasgow
Readaloud videos
Watch exclusive read alouds from featured authors in our Read for Empathy collection
Jenny Pearson reading from The Boy Who
Made Monsters
Polly Ho-Yen reading from The Boy Who
Grew a Tree
Jion Sheibani reading from The Silver Chain
Camilla Chester reading from Call Me Lion
Tom Percival reading from The Invisible
Sita Brahmachari reading from Tender Earth
Emma Reynolds reading from Amara and the Bats
Author and Illustrator Resolutions
Check out the Resolutions that our author and illustrator friends made for Empathy Day. Use them to help inspire young people.
Booklist: Stories To Share for Empathy Action Month
The special characters in these stories put empathy into action in their communities to make life better for everyone.
Use our booklist for all ages at home or in class – PDF reader’s guide available
here.
What is Empathy Action Month?
Social action is an important part of empathy. When we take time to understand other people’s feelings and experiences, it spurs us on to act.
In other words, we put empathy into action.
That’s what Empathy Action Month is about - every November, we help young people focus on ways to make a difference, and reflect on the Empathy Resolutions we make for Empathy Day in June.
Empathy Action Month is an extension of the wider
Empathy Day
campaign. We want to encourage people to
make every day an Empathy Day, and to keep taking steps to build a better, more empathetic world.
Templates and Guidance
Download your FREE Resolution templates now, and use our free guidance to help you engage young people with social action.
Empathy Resolution Bunting
Guide Sheet
Poster - 'My Empathy Resolution is'
Poster - 'My Empathy Resolution is' (Welsh)
Case studies from schools
In the run up to Empathy Action Month, teacher Tom Griffiths, and school librarian Graham Fairweather shared what they got up to on Empathy Day, plus their plans for the month.
View their case studies to learn how they highlighted social action and Empathy Resolutions at school
Tom Griffiths, Assistant Headteacher at Tidbury Green School
As part of Empathy Day:
I met with the
school council to talk about why empathy matters and plan the day, and sent the Family Activities Pack
to all the parents. Teachers and pupils made a
video
of their resolutions.
For Empathy Action Month:
Classes reflected on their Resolutions together, to see how they have progressed.
Graham Fairweather, School Librarian at High School of Glasgow
As part of Empathy Day:
Our departments wove empathy into lessons - in the modern languages, we had Empathy Exchanges in French and Spanish! In the library, I set up an Empathy Resolution station, and every student was challenged to make a Resolution.
For Empathy Action Month:
We checked back in with students and having conversations about ways to make a difference, and tied in the resources and author videos with Book Week Scotland.
What can we do right now?
You can still make an Empathy Resolution! One of the five 2023 Mission Empathy activities.
To make one, we need to:
- THINK about ways to make our home, school or community a happier, more caring place, and then
- COMMIT to one action to change things for the better.
Help children better understand the meaning and importance of empathy using this recording of Joseph Coelho's Empathy Day assembly.