The Power of Empathy: A Thirty-Day Path to Personal Growth and Social Change

Summary

With this thirty-day approach, you can develop your empathy skills as tools for self-love and empowerment. Empathy expert and entrepreneur Michael Tennant weaves together scholarly research with his personal journey of loss, substance use, anxiety, and depression to explore how empathy can benefit both our inner lives and our larger community.

Filled with heartfelt personal stories, techniques for mindfulness, and engaging journaling prompts, this book grounds the abstract concept of empathy with an actionable and intersectional framework. Learn to compassionately support, courageously confront, gracefully model, effectively resolve, and masterfully connect—all through the power of empathy!

Perfect for: anyone interested in developing healing and self-care practices; mental health and wellness enthusiasts looking for new approaches; activists, community organizers, and compassionate connectors; business leaders, managers, and nonprofit professionals; black men and other BIPOC interested in self-improvement; people on a journey of recovery from grief, addiction, anxiety, or depression; anyone looking to strengthen their relationships with family members or friends; and fans of the Actually Curious decks and other conversational card games like We're Not Really Strangers and Esther Perel's Where Should We Begin.