Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Poster

P12 - Help You, Help Them: Museum Professional Empathy Training

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What does it mean to be empathetic, and how are museums and museum professionals empathetic? Should museums be empathetic? This poster presentation will help you identify gaps within your professional training, increase your fluency in professional vocabulary regarding empathy, and develop greater confidence in your empathetic skills to “help you, help them.”

Learning Objectives:

• Identify gaps within professional training concerning empathy.
• Acquire fluency in concrete terms for understanding the notion of “empathy.”
• Gain confidence in the ability to recognize and conscientiously practice empathy within professional settings.

Poster Presenter(s)

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  Laura-Edythe Coleman

  Lecturer & Researcher
  Johns Hopkin University Advanced Academic Programs Museum Studies

Poster Presenter / Co-Author(s)

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  Phillips Abigail

  Assistant Professor
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee