I find my place with children
Pathy - Empathy - Sympathy

Welcome education professionals!

This capsule explores the notion of pathy to help professionals find their rightful place with children.

Sympathy, empathy, and compassion are essential levers for creating a climate of trust and emotional security.

The quality of the adult-child relationship directly influences motivation, engagement, and learning.

A kind and adjusted communication allows for the establishment of a virtuous circle in the educational relationship.

Finding the balance between emotional listening and adult posture promotes effective and respectful support.

Pathy	The suffix -pathy comes from the Greek "pathos," which means suffering, emotion, or feeling. A concept that encompasses sympathy, empathy, and compassion.
Emotional empathy	Emotional empathy refers to the ability to directly feel the emotions that another person is experiencing, as if we were experiencing them ourselves.
Cognitive empathy	Cognitive empathy is the ability to intellectually understand what another person is feeling, without necessarily feeling their emotions ourselves.
Finding your rightful place	Finding your rightful place means understanding and accepting your role, your limits, and your needs in the professional context, in order to feel balanced, respected, and in your rightful measure.
Digital communication	Verbal communication encompasses all exchanges that occur through spoken or written language. It is the most explicit and direct form of communication.
Analogical communication	Analogical communication refers to messages transmitted without words, through non-verbal signs: gestures, postures, facial expressions, intonation, gaze …