Author and global ed advisor Homa Tavangar makes a case for why empathy is the most important back-to-school supply we can give our children.My most important back-to-school supply doesn’t fit in a backpack, and it can’t be ordered online. It’s as esse…
Daily Archives: 29/08/2014
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\NWEI reflects on why empathy is important to our survival and how it is connected to taking responsibility for Earth.The Northwest Earth Institute staff just participated in our newest discussion course: Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustain…
It’s not so much a storybook as it is a guide for its reader. It’s a litany of ideas and examples through which children can stretch theirempathy. Simple, every-day ways. At home, in school, in their communities. Through acts of kin…
There has been a long debate in law about the role of empathy in judging, a debate that gained new prominence during and after the nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Those who are interested in that debate may enjoy a new essay in the Boston Review…
A decade after he raised the idea of “educating the heart” of B.C. children, the Dalai Lama will return to Vancouver this fall to help make it happen. The Dalai Lama will visit the Vancouver Convention Centre Oct. 21 for a Heart-Mind Summit…
Could wolves feel empathy? A recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE shows that just like humans and other types of dogs, these creatures are also susceptible to yawn contagion. With yawning contagion, scientists from the University of Tokyo, J…