Every Friday afternoon Chase’s teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. The children know that these requests may or may not be honored.

Jim Manske’s insight:
I’m touched reading this teacher’s strategies for cultivating connection and compassion in her classroom. Today, Jori and I will join a group of local educators to talk about how to integrate a “No-Fault” zone in their school, right here in our neighborhood!

This two day workshop you will be introduced to Compassionate Communication, also known as Non Violent Communication, a system of communication that has been […]

Reports show that emotional intelligence-and specifically empathy-is spiraling downward in kids. Today we look at why empathy is declining among students.Jim Manske’s insight:Imagine the effect of sharing more quality connection time with kids: ask t…

The OccupyOakland I visited on October 15th was not a protest. You could say that I knew it, because I have read about it before I was there. I still couldn’t understand it fully until I saw what it meant. I suspect the same is true elsewhere, th…