{"id":6750,"date":"2026-10-07T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:14:14","slug":"speaker-meeting-21st-september-2026-the-empathy-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/2026\/10\/07\/speaker-meeting-21st-september-2026-the-empathy-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker meeting 21st September 2026: The Empathy Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_20260921_203451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6753\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_20260921_203451-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_20260921_203451-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_20260921_203451-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_20260921_203451.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At our Speaker Meeting in September Caroline Scott spoke to us about the Empathy Lab, of which she is one of the founders. The Empathy Lab is a charity working with children to enhance empathic relationships through the use of high quality literature. See above for some examples of the kind of work that they encourage schools and libraries to purchase. Their work is based on the firm belief empathy can be learned. They offer programmes to schools and libraries and have a growing presence across the country, noting their work results in calmer learning and increased interest in reading.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in learning more about The Empathy Lab or would like to contribute you can do so at this website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/empathylab.uk\/\">https:\/\/empathylab.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our Speaker Meeting in September Caroline Scott spoke to us about the Empathy Lab,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":6752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Speaker meeting 21st September 2026: The Empathy Lab | News | Blog | Events | SI Winchester and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Winchester and District : Blog &amp; News : Speaker meeting 21st September 2026: The Empathy Lab : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Winchester and District . 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