June 2025

The Empathy festival is a ten-day nationwide festival from 2-12 June 2025, culminating in Empathy Day itself on 12th June. This extended national campaign will provide you with a flexible framework for widespread community participation, inspiring children to learn about empathy, put it into action and develop key empathy skills. 

The festival will feature nine Empathy Challenge activities, including brand new challenges for 2025, a nationwide assembly with Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, brilliant authors and illustrators to spark empathy inspiration, CPD webinars and more! The flexible menu of activities allows you to pick and choose what is right for your setting – it’s totally up to you! 

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About the book

'We've Got This!: Six Steps to Build Your Empathy Superpower!" by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, illustrated by Juliana Eigner

Witten in partnership with Empathy Lab, this book is the essential empathy handbook for young readers.

In just SIX simple steps readers will be taught how to harness empathy as their human SUPERPOWER, and discover how using this power can change their lives and the world around them for the better.

The emotional well-being of children is just as important as their physical health but it’s not something that all children are taught about or are offered support for. Harnessing empathy and growing their emotional intelligence allows children and young people to develop the resilience to cope with life's ups and downs as well as understand and experience other people's emotions, feelings and points of view.

This essential handbook, created in collaboration with Empathy Lab, the UK's leading empathy research organisation, includes:

• Digestible steps that teach children about empathy in a fun and exciting way
• Case studies that children can relate to and learn from
• Empathy exercises and activities to improve understanding of empathy
• Quotes, advice and support from renowned authors

We've Got This! Six Steps to Build your Empathy Superpower unites contributions from world-famous authors, including a foreword from Sir Michael Morpurgo, and inspirational quotes about empathy from authors including Cressida Cowell, Joseph Coelho, Nadia Shireen, Malorie Blackman, Jaqueline Wilson, Sue Cheung, Jen Carney, Manon Steffan Ros, Ben Davis, Patrice Lawrence, Abigail Balfe, Dom Conlon and SF Said.

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