Empathy is everywhere at Georgetown Day School, from the kindergarteners earnestly trading “peace roses” to resolve peer conflicts to the fifth graders spiritedly debating food access in impoverished DC communities. The school’s compr…

Nurses are on the front line of care for the ill, wounded, and traumatized individuals and are called upon to deliver compassionate care to their clients. Empathy and compassion are essential qualities for successful healing environments, vital for bot…

Even if guns were to vanish, the specter that haunts our young men would still hover in silence, darkly.A partial solution to these toxic circumstances could be a coordinated cultivation of what might be called an empathic habit. Most people surely fel…

Founder of the Inner Kids program, Susan Kaiser Greenland adapted adult meditation practices for kids, seeing a marked improvement in their capacity to focus, calm themselves, and manage stress. She is also the author of The Mindful Child.Susan shares …

Patient experience has emerged as a dynamic issue for healthcare CEOs, physicians, and industry leaders. No provider can afford to offer anything less than the best clinical, physical and emotional experience to patients and families. As patients becom…

People are able to detect, within a split second, if a hurtful action they are witnessing is intentional or accidental, new research on the brain at the University of Chicago shows.The study is the first to explain how the brain is hard-wired to recogn…

In Vietnam, archaeologists say, a Stone Age community took care of a man who couldn’t take care of himself.While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it seems, is caring for the sick and disabled…