Corporate empathy may sound like an oxymoron, but more businesses are emphasizing the trait in developing managers and products. Cisco Systems Inc., Breakthru Beverage Group and Ford Motor Co., have invested in empathy training to improve management, r…

Get ready to make YOUR unique contribution toward building a culture of peace in your community and our world. Join 15+ top esteemed thought leaders and trailblazing agents for change — including The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Neale …

A light rape sentence sparks outrage—and raises questions about the place of empathy and bias in judicial decision-making. In 2009, President Obama told Americans that he thought empathy was an important quality for a judge to possess, …

As part of the presentation of Empathy Museum at NOW Gallery 11 June – 2 July 2016, we present a day of events around the subject of empathy including a Human Library event in Peninsula Gardens. Human Library (1-4pm)The Empathy Museum presen…

From the dvd ‘The Interactive Focusing Process’ shot in 1997, with music by Goran Petrovic, and produced by Nada Lou.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

The Interactive Focusing Process is a forward moving edge of Focusing, incorporating Focusing into the building of relationships.  Through the Interactive Focusing Process, we are able to develop empathy and compassion as well as self-empathy and …

Educational psychologist and author, Michele Borba, shares her decade-long journey to discover how to optimize human potential. Surprisingly, it was children from Canada to Rwanda who offered the three best ideas to cultivate empathy. The best news: if…

Educational psychologist and author, Michele Borba, shares her decade-long journey to discover how to optimize human potential. Surprisingly, it was children from Canada to Rwanda who offered the three best ideas to cultivate empathy. The best news: if…

Empathy is a complex, multifaceted construct that refers to the “emotional and/or intellectual identification with another person” (Guralnik, 1992 in Berrol, 2006). The human ability to empathize has been called the “building block of…

Recent tragedies like the death of a 2-year-old attacked by an alligator in Florida reveal a rise in “parenting shame” Empathy and judgmentEmpathy is the ability to put oneself in another person’s emotional shoes. This ability is baked into people…