Jared Callahan of People People Media said in passing a couple months ago, “All film making is just story telling and story telling is for the purpose of building empathy.”
I’ve wrestled with that for weeks. Not whether it’s true or not, but that it’s more true than I’m comfortable with.
For the next few days, I’ll accept Jared’s comment as a prompt to look at story telling, vocation, and empathy as three strands in the larger tapestry of each person’s journey.
For now, consider this: Empathy has no formula, no script, or no template. Empathy is the gift of holding space while withholding judgement. You should try it on yourself for a day.
