After careful deliberation, 14 winners have been chosen from 628 entries as innovative models with strong potential to scale. Together, along with every entrant from the competition, we hope to create a world guided by empathy and collaboration, one le…

Playing music in a group setting on a regular basis significantly improves children’s ability to empathize with others and show compassion, according to new findings.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Rifkin highlights three aspects of empathy:   (1) the activity of mirror neurons,   (2) soft-wiring of humans for cooperative and empathic traits, and (3) the expansion of the empathic circle from blood ties to nation-sates to (hopefully) the…

For years religious folks have known about the health benefits of compassion. Now this idea is gaining acceptance from the medical community as well.   “If we say, [the] practice of compassion is something holy, nobody [will] listen,” …

I write about empathy a lot on these pages because it can’t be emphasized enough as a critical skill in business—and one that’s missing from most business interactions (See “The Great Empathy Famine”). Today’s blog p…

How compassion can help us remain calm and present as we face our fears.    Our ‘Practice Compassion’ blog is going to cover a range of problems that can be addressed by cultivating our capacity for self-compassion, personal courage,and…

Bring up the word autism and you’ll hear a great many theories. Simon Baron-Cohen, the man who I believe has singlehandedly done more damage to the perception of autistics than any other human being (though there are arguably a number of people vying f…

Research details a number of ways in which the brain actually improves with age. And what’s even more interesting is that many of these advanced abilities correlate with key conceptual elements of innovation and creativity. This is particularly true fo…