While laws and policies are essential for maintaining order in society, they cannot compel individuals to love and respect life and humanity. Beyond enacting and improving legislation, we must invest in fostering healthy human growth. At World Without Hate, we teach empathy as a critical life skill to create a more just, equitable, and peaceful society, where everyone can thrive and be respected as human beings. Our research and our founder’s personal experience demonstrate that education about empathy, compassion, acceptance, and forgiveness provides tools to build a kinder and healthier society in the face of racism, intolerance, hate, and violence. Through our Empathy Ambassadors program, we invest in shaping future generations who will lead our country and the world.

World Without Hate’s (WWH) Empathy Ambassadors Program provides participants with key tools to build their empathy muscles to activate empathy into action. This newly enhanced version of WWH’s signature program consists of six total lessons focused on a dialogic learning approach utilizing the latest in empathy-developing techniques from across sectors. We’ve also developed Virtual Reality (VR) content to support teaching empathy as a critical life skill, and we are honored to have received 38 pairs of VR goggles from Meta as a donation for the program.

Program Design: To accommodate schedules and provide customization, two 90-minute workshops contain the core values of the program. The first focuses on methods and tools to build our empathy muscle. The second transitions participants from the internal process of empathy into the external, making empathy actionable. Four additional 60-minute workshops are available to dive deeper into empathy-building methods, which can be scheduled at the participants’ desire.

The program has been developed for 7^th graders through adulthood with each workshop able to support 30-35 participants. For more information, contact Maggie Kase, Program Director, at maggie@worldwithouthate.org or fill out the form.