Resilience Pathway: Here's what the 'Understanding other people's feelings' paving stone means

The move for this week is ‘Understanding other people’s feelings’. The 42 resilience moves are designed to build resilience and help improve the lives of people in Blackpool. ‘Understanding other people’s feelings’ falls under the key strand of, ‘core self’ within the Resilience Framework.

This move helps people to become aware of other people and how they might be feeling.

It can sometimes be difficult to understand what other people are feeling or why they behave in a certain way. We live in a society where we don’t really talk about our feelings, which can make it harder. The reality is, we all feel things every day that we may struggle with such as anger, happiness, guilt or pride.

Ellie, a co-leader of the Resilience Revolution in Blackpool, has given us advice on how you can respond to other people’s feelings and become understanding.

Ellie said: “To be kind and empathetic, you should get to know the person’s background, this might help you understand why they feel how they do. This helps you to build healthy relationships – by listening to them, you are giving them the time and space to express how they are feeling. This might help your relationship grow and become stronger as having a good rapport with people is the key to good communication and in turn, good relationships.”

For more information on empathy visit our blog on our website at www.resiliencepathway.co.uk or find us on social @HSBlackpool.

The Resilience Framework was developed by Professor Angie Hart and her colleagues at Boingboing, to find out more why not visit www.boingboing.org.uk.