A named class of attentional caregivers exercises care-as-attention

Evidence

There is a beautiful Greek word we will roll out for these attentional caregivers—the therapists, midwives, pastors, the death doulas, the attendants, and all of those PARENTS out there. Everyone who lays on hands. Everyone who brings the powerful medicine of actually listening. They are the EPIMELETES, from ἐπιμέλεια (epimeleia), meaning “care, concern, solicitous and nurturing and healing attention.” — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 411

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the reader a precise technical name (epimeletes/epimeleia) for the caregivers who exemplify non-extractive attention, useful as a diagnostic category.
• SHARE: The specific Greek term epimeleia and its roster of caregivers could go to a midwife, doula, or hospice worker in this reader’s life.