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Seeds of Empathy is designed for Early Childhood settings to foster social and emotional competence and early literacy skills and attitudes in children three to five years of age while providing professional development for their educators.
Seeds of Empathy is unique in that it powerfully engages children experientially through a community family – an infant and parent, building on the attachment relationship demonstrated between the two.
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Seeds of Empathy is really teaching about perspective taking and emotional literacy, and we think children who are exposed to these babies in the seeds program will have more vibrant and more action reaction to the emotions of others.”
- Neuroscientist, Andrew Meltzoff
Seeds of Empathy grew out of Roots of Empathy, a program for elementary school children from Kindergarten to Grade 8. It is the younger sibling of Roots of Empathy and brings the messages of that program to three- to five-year-olds.
To learn more about Roots of Empathy, click here.
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Mary Gordon to speak at TEDx in Gabriola Island
14 March 2013: Roots of Empathy Founder/President Mary Gordon will be presenting at TEDxGabriolaIsland on March 18, 2013. The event surrounds the theme “University in Diversity: Beyond Objectification into Empathy,” and will mark Gordon’s third TEDx presentation.
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Seeds of Empathy featured on KIRO Radio, Seattle
7 March 2013: The Seeds of Empathy program at UW Children’s Center at Radford Court – one of the first to be offered in the United States – was featured on KIRO Radio as reporter Rachel Belle went to find out more about this innovative emotional literacy initiative.
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Seeds of Empathy featured on King 5 TV
25 January 2013: Seeds of Empathy was featured on King 5-TV on January 25th, 2013. The first U.S. Seeds of Empathy programs were introduced to daycares in Seattle in 2010-2011, with the impact on participating children already becoming apparent.
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Mary Gordon invested into Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
16 October 2012: Seeds of Empathy creator Mary Gordon was invested into the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in October 2012. The Honourable John Crosbie, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Honourable Kathy Dunderdale, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, presented Gordon and her seven fellow inductees with the Order.
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Trainings take place for First Programs in Coastal Labrador
14 September 2012: In September 2012, Seeds of Empathy trainers Darcy Morgan and Angela Sibulak travelled to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, to train early childhood workers in delivering Labrador’s first Seeds of Empathy programs this coming year.
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Our mission is to build caring, peaceful, and civil societies through the development of empathy in children and adults.
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