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What we do
Right now you can...
- Register for free Empathy Day 2024 resources and explore the new Mission Empathy Challenge
- Download the Family and Caregiver Activity Pack 2024
- Download the guides to the Read for Empathy collection 2024
- Plan your viewing for Empathy Day Live!
- Become an EmpathyLab Affiliate School
- Explore our Corporate Training offering
- Join our expert-led Empathy Day CPD training
- Use
our children's empathy handbook written by Rashmi Sirdeshpande,
We've Got This!
The Family and Caregiver Activity Pack is a short, paperless guide which gives you everything you need to take part in the 2024 Mission Empathy challenge at home.
Our 2024 toolkits are
ready to download, they are packed with ideas and resources to help young people of all ages celebrate and develop their empathy superpower.
The first 300 organisations to register will win a free book for their setting!
From 7.30am on Thursday 6 June, watch our mix of FREE live and pre-recorded events in your class, library or home. Top authors and illustrators will model the Mission Empathy Challenge!
Making the most of our interactive events
For the first time this year, we'll be holding live and interactive events, in which schools will have the chance participate. If you can prepare certain activities in advance, it will help you make the most of them.
Register for our free toolkits to get started on the Empathy Day activities!
WATCH THE EMPATHY DAY LIVE TRAILER NOW
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.
Latest news
January Empathy Builders Webinar
The EmpathyLab team started 2024 strong, delivering an online webinar for our Empathy Builder publishers!
We led a group of publishing professionals from a mix of departments, and shared foundational insights on the power of empathy, plus practical strategies for integrating it into the work they do.
It's always a pleasure to gather with the Empathy Builders - learn more about this excting partnership with over 40 publishing houses here.
