Empathy Walk

Empathy Walk

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Empathy Walks were launched as an activity for Empathy Day 2021 when we asked everyone to walk in someone else’s shoes – since then we’ve built up a lovely bank of exemplar Walks from authors, children and teachers – watch below!


Empathy Walks give us all the opportunity to think about our communities in a very different way.

For Empathy Day 2023 you could do one as part of Empathy 360°, one of the five powerful activities in Mission Empathy.


In the FREE online Empathy Day Live! festival, you can watch authors Jen Carney and James Sellick explore how their Empathy 360° activity helped them see through other people’s eyes, and decide what they can do to make a difference.

Share your maps, drawings or films with @EmpathyLabUK on Twitter and Instagram, and EmpathyLab on Facebook, using the #EmpathyDay hashtag.


Please don't take photos of people or photos on private land unless you have explicit permission. Since this is all about discussing empathy together, as well as safety, we suggest children don’t do the walk on their own.



Sarah Mears, founder of EmpathyLab, explains what an empathy walk is and shares her walk around her neighbourhood.


Poet, author and EmpathyLab team member, Paul Jenkins.

Lisa Carroll, Assistant Headteacher at Pentrehafod School in Swansea

Chrissie Sains, author of 'An Alien in the Jam Factory', shares her empathy observations.

A. M. Dassu, author of 'Boy Everywhere', part of our 2021 Read for Empathy collection.

Sophie Kirtley, author of 'The Wild Way Home, reflects on what she saw on her empathy walk.

Joseph Elliot, actor and author takes an Empathy Walk and shares a new poem based on his observations.

Children and staff from Pembroke Dock Community School shared their empathy walks with us. Click here to watch!

Sarah Mears, EmpathyLab founder introduces a compilation of empathy walk videos.

Michele Thomas, Headteacher at Pembroke Dock Community School, takes an early morning empathy walk around her school. Click here to watch.

Author Alastair Chisholm goes on a picnic and empathy walk with his family to visit his Dad. With beautiful illustrations by his daughter.

A powerful walk by a Year 1 pupil from Pembroke Dock Community School, explaining the need for tolerance and understanding and how it’s good to be unique. Important messages not just for Empathy Day.

#EveryDayEmpathyDay


Watch the video here

Another fabulous walk from a Year 1 pupil at Pembroke Dock Community School. This one focuses on the importance of looking after our environment.

Watch it here.

Lovely, thoughtful Empathy Walk taken on a half term holiday in Pembrey Country Park by a Year 1 pupil from Pembroke Dock Community School.

Watch the video here.

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