Empathy Lab is made up of exceptional souls, and I got to meet a bunch of them at the party in grand Artworkers’ Guild, London, including the new MD taking over Miranda’s job, Imogen Bond (here with author/artist Jion Sheibani above!)
There’s a billion reasons why ELab are ace and one of the main ones is that they do serious science behind empathy and are on a mission to teach the skills to our next generations through reading.
At the moment there’s around 250 children’s authors and illustrators involved and the message reaches up to a million kids. So if you’re a teacher, librarian, children’s book creator, check out their training courses and get on board (they’re aiming for 2 million kids next year!)
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