The situation in Israel/Palestine is intolerable and calls for a response grounded in compassion, empathy, understanding and healing. We at the Network of Spiritual Progressives offer such a response and hope others will join us…I sometimes feel a se…

Sunday, Sept. 7th from 2:00-5:00pm, Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis will co-lead a workshop called: Grieving for Israel and Palestine: a training on how empathy can become a path to Middle East peace.In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn techniques t…

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call “terrorism,” I’m confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more.

Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways — they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs — they got progressively more agitated.

Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form.” 

― Marshall B. Rosenberg,

 Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World

Studies have argued that empathy to the pain of out-group members is largely diminished by “in-group empathy bias”. Investigating the mechanism underlying the emotional reactions of Jewish Israeli participants toward the pain experienced by…

A “coopetition” will start Thursday in Fayetteville.This altruistic competition is Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. The games run through Sept. 21, which is the International Day of Peace, said Nancy Harris, team leader for the Compassion Gam…

Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode Animals And Us. About Frans de Waal’s TED Talk,  Empathy, cooperation and fairness seem like distinctly humanRAZ: And if an animal intuitively understands reciprocity, then maybe, just maybe, that animal unders…

Psychologists, user experience designers and writers were asked what web users could to do to promote more empathic interaction in online places.A more empathic Web could help put an end to that. And research suggests that practicing empathy leads…

The ‘care ethic’ leads campus activists and administrators to squelch uncomfortable speech, with few limits. And that impulse is increasingly global, new book says.The Tyranny of the ‘Care Ethic’While Lukianoff asks readers, many of whom ar…