Capital University’s non-credit Empathy Experiment immerses students in the plight of the working poor to promote understanding. The banner on the side of the Capital University music conservatory has an outline of a sneaker and a…

Empathy and self-help[edit]Empathy is one of the most important aspects of humanistic therapy. This idea focuses on the therapist’s ability to see the world through the eyes of the client. Without this, therapists can be forced to apply an e…

Don’t look now, but all of a sudden the topic of compassionate management is becoming trendy.A growing number of business conferences are focusing in on the topic of compassion at work. There’s the International Working Group on Compa…

 The Empathy Box brings the power of guerilla storytelling to children on the autism spectrum, their families, and their supporters. Guerilla storytelling is a way to get stories to people who wouldn’t otherwise hear them – in this pro…

University of Iowa’s Daryl Cameron will speak about why compassion fails “when we need it the most.” Why is there the tendency to feel more compassion for single identifiable victims, rather than large groups of victims?Assistant Professor …

Empathy — our ability to feel for others — is what allows us to care for each other, to form communities and friendships, to imagine each other’s feelings, to commiserate over each other’s pain and share in each other’s joy. This ability is what make…