Author - Dr. Michelle Bobo, Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. This skill is critical for forming lasting relationships and bonds, hinders one’s ability to communicate, collaborate and problem solve. Dr. Michele Borba calls this lack of empathy and an increase in self-absorption the Selfie Syndrome. With Unselfie, Dr. Borba outlines her researched-based, nine-step empathy-building program that educators can use to shift the I, me focus of their students to we, us, and ours.