About The Empathy Project

The Empathy Project addresses the need to reframe human relationships with animals, in ways that benefit nature, the animals and humans.

The project was developed in empathetic response to the depth and scale of animal suffering; it was also developed in the belief that, wherever animals are exploited, where are animals are exploited, humans suffer and are exploited, too.

In this work, as much as possible, the experience and the reality of the animal is placed front and centre. This is in order, firstly, to challenge the myth of human supremacy by cultivating active compassion towards all living beings and, secondly, to build the empathy between all beings that humans, as a destructive species, need to grow, as we move deeper into climate and ecological systems that face multiple catastrophes.

The Empathy Project believes that, if we place the lives of others - those that we have othered - alongside ourselves, we will set in place restorative cultures that will support us, and nature, even as we face collapse.