Compassionate CommunitiesFrom The Classroom To The Big Wide World, Empathy MattersNothing is more important than teaching compassion1st Graders at MVP Embrace Empathy Through Bus Stop DesignTeaching Children HappinessAn Approach to Heart Centered Educa…

New findings show that chimpanzees exhibit flexibility in their empathy, just as humans do. This may help explain the evolution of how and when humans engage with others and choose to offer flexibility, and how we can do so more.While it’s been long kn…

At its simplest, empathy is the awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people. It goes beyond sympathy, which is often thought of as feeling for someone, and instead, is feeling with that person. When we are empathetic toward someone else…

There is a danger in using the word too loosely,” believes Lynne Cameron of the Open University, who is engaged on a three-year programme to understand the dynamics of empathy.She refers to the rhetoric as “deceptive” and “disturbing”. The difficulty i…