Empathy is, at its simplest, awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people. It is a key element of emotional intelligence, the link between self and others, because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves.. Empathy is one of the essential life skills each and every individual should develop.

In this week’s Life Skills lesson, 7D discussed comfortable and uncomfortable feelings and practised putting themselves in other people’s shoes. They made insightful, mature and sensitive observations on empathy and how our feelings, thoughts and behaviours are all linked.