ABSTRACT
This chapter explains empathic intelligence along with those characteristics of its practice that relate to the work of both teachers and therapists in educational settings. These characteristics include attunement to self and others; the ability to generate a dynamic between thinking and feeling; and the ability to create positive relationships, to model attitudes conducive to positive effects, to mirror students' feelings, and to understand the nature of inter/intra-subjectivity. Empathic intelligence is a concept developed to articulate the practice of teachers and therapists who are attuned to the interface between cognitive and affective development and mindful of the power of relatedness in learning, teaching, and self-development. Empathic intelligence is a theoretical concept underpinned by an argument that effective pedagogy and educational therapy happen when a practitioner is able to create a dynamic or energy between thinking and feeling, in a context perceived as intelligently caring. Empathic intelligence is the application of cognitive and emotional intelligences to beneficial effect.
