Roman Krznaric

Empathy

Roman Krznaric is a writer and teacher on creative thinking about the art of living and social change. He is on the teaching faculty of The School of Life, designed the course on Work, and co-created the courses on Politics and Love with Alain de Botton and Mark Vernon. He was previously Project Director at The Oxford Muse, the foundation established by the avant-garde historian Theodore Zeldin to inspire courage and invention in personal, professional and cultural life. He has also been an academic, teaching sociology and politics at Cambridge, City University in London, and Essex University, where he obtained his PhD.

His great passion is empathy and how, by cultivating the art of stepping into other people’s shoes and seeing the world from their perspectives, we can find new inspiration in our own lives, extend our moral universes and bring about social transformation. Roman has been a consultant on empathy development for Oxfam, the United Nations and community organisations around the country, and runs his own courses on how to expand our empathetic imaginations. He is the author of Empathy and The Art of Living, and of a forthcoming novel, Message to the Gardeners of England, on the curious practice of empathy gardening. His ambition is to found the world’s first Empathy Museum.

Roman can offer you:

• a conversation with him about how to nurture your own capacity to empathise – whether it be with a sister who you haven’t got on with for years, work colleagues who drive you up the wall, or people you walk past on the street every day
• a bespoke menu of empathetic practices that you can take away and incorporate into your daily life
• experiential empathetic adventures, in which you discover first hand how other people think, feel and look at the world – anything from a gardener to a corporate financier – whatever would most broaden your horizons.

See www.romankrznaric.com