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Lineup announcements for Empathy Day Live!

Empathy Day is on Thursday 6 June, and we're back with our FREE online festival! Watch our mix of live and pre-recorded events in your class, library or home.

Throughout the day, we'll be joined by a brilliant lineup of authors & illustrators modelling the Mission Empathy challenge to inspire you. Keep your eyes peeled on our socials this week - we'll be sharing this year's fantastic events and participants.

For the first time this year, we'll be holding live and interactive events! During each of them, schools will have the chance participate in different ways: adding recommendations to a virtual Empathy Bookshelf, sharing words to describe their emotions or telling the authors their Empathy Resolutions. If you can prepare these in advance, it will help you get the most out of the event.

Learn more about Empathy Day here.

Using books to build empathy

Our definition of empathy is the ability to experience and understand other people's feelings and points of view. We believe it is a core life skill every child deserves the chance to develop, and a force for social change.

Our strategy is based on scientific research showing that empathy is a learnable skill, and that books are a practical, powerful tool to build it. Read our background research to learn more. 

With hate crimes, polarisation and mental health problems all on the rise, we passionately believe society needs new empathy-focused strategies to help us all understand and support each other better.

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OUT NOW: Empathy Day 2024 Resources! 

The FREE Empathy Day resources are out now! The gorgeous 2024 toolkits are packed with ideas and resources to help children and young people of all ages celebrate and develop their empathy superpower, aand take part in the NEW Mission Empathy Challenge.

Register here to get resources sent straight to your inbox - the first 300 organisations to register will win a free book for their setting!

January Empathy Builders Webinar

The EmpathyLab team started 2024 strong, delivering an online webinar for our Empathy Builder publishers!

We led a group of publishing professionals from a mix of departments, and shared foundational insights on the power of empathy, plus practical strategies for integrating it into the work they do.

It's always a pleasure to gather with the Empathy Builders - learn more about this excting partnership with over 40 publishing houses here.