We’ve entered the age of empathy.Today, we are in the midst of another fundamental rethinking of what organizations are and for what purpose they exist. If organizations existed in the execution era to create scale and in the expertise era to pro…

In the wake of recent tragedies, Charles Eisenstein and Dominic Barter explain why restorative justice is the answer. Explore how compassion and empathy lead to healing and reconciliation.”There’s something really unique about empathy, that it clears t…

Education is broadening its focus from main academics to include emotional and social skills. Empathy is a skill that is increasingly sought after, not just in classrooms, but also in professional spaces.But how does one learn empathy? Read. …

”The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but, on building the new.”- SocratesSee it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

In The Wall street Journal, Wonder Land columnist Dan Henninger writes that Obama’s words can move factions, but not a people.The Obama gift is, or was, empathy. Every politician since Julius Caesar has known how to do empathy. Bill Clinton summited em…

Psychologist Christian Jarrett neatly summarizes the findings on the British Psychology Society’s Research Digest:Feelings of “interconnectedness” (rated by agreement with statements like “I felt close to my conversation partner”) were reduc…

Are you an art teacher that avoids critique sessions? Art teachers tell me that they are skipping the critique because it has been a negative experience. How much learning are your students missing?Empathic critique is collaboration, not competition. E…