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Katie Hines
Manager, Learning & Development Land O’Lakes
: Katie, you’ve not only participated in our empathy concerts, but you were also a featured guest on one of them! What have those events evoked for you?
: There are two words. The first one is HAPPINESS. I was a music teacher for a couple of years, and I’m still a big musician (I sing and play the cello), so music is a huge part of my life. A big draw for me to the concerts is just hearing the different Broadway singers and supporting them.
The second word is HOPE. So much of what we see and hear in the news is all doom and gloom. The empathy concerts are a great way to have people lift each other up. Partnering on the conversations around empathy, there’s hope that not everybody is horrible and that there are people like you and me (everybody that’s participating, on or off camera) who just want happiness and for people
to get along. That just brings me a lot of hope.
: In one sentence or one phrase, what does empathy mean to you? And please expand on that.
: It means trying to understand where people are coming from and their perspectives.
Quite often, we hear the question/expression, “What’s it like to be in their shoes?”, but I think it’s a lot more than that. It’s trying to understand people’s situations and then having compassion for what they may or may not be going through. Putting yourself into people’s shoes is good, but it’s also about compassion for how people are feeling.
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