Bio-Empathy

“There are many ways to develop bio-empathy, but the first step is to listen, observe, and appreciate the natural processes that are always going on around us. Bio-empathy contributes to person-to-person communication. Every organization’s guiding principles should reflect bio-empathy and express it in organic - not mechanical - language. Bio-empathy takes big-picture thinking that respects all the multiple interrelated parts and nonlinear relationships, as well as cycles of change. Bio-empathy is grounded in an ability to empathize with nature and understand its ways, its connectivity, and its resilience.”

Source: Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World, Johansen, Robert, Berret-Koehler, Inc., San Francisco, 2012