He decided to hit the road, taking the card game with him, and teaching empathy workshops along the way. This spring, Mr. Tennant arrived in Florida, just as the country was going into lockdown.

If a player has the right card, he can help the boy by ... how to look both ways to cross the street. The game makers say we should teach them empathy and compassion as well.

Ventura authored a book titled Applied Empathy and designed an Applied Empathy card game called Questions & Empathy that he describes as “a highbrow Cards Against Humanity—it escalates you ...

But the emotional impact of the experience lingered, inspiring her to design a newly launched series of Empathy Cards—emotionally direct greeting cards that say the things she wanted to hear ...