From 2012 until 2014, I have worked with Edwin Rutsch of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy and Compassion. Together we developed Empathy Circles as a hands-on instrument to turn theory on empathy into experiential practice. To make this…

Despite the increasing awareness of the relevance of empathy in patient care, some findings suggest that medical schools may be contributing to the deterioration of students’ empathy. Therefore, it is important to clarify the magnitude and direct…

The callous disregard for Black lives is part of that legacy. The pervasive lack of empathy for the Black people found in the Mississippi River decades ago or—in contemporary times—for the lives of people like Sandra Bland, Eric G…

So how do you help your team hone their empathetic skills?Like any skill, empathy requires some practice. Growing up, my parents taught me that qualities like toughness and persistence were most important. They’d convinced me that if I could surv…

At its best, empathy makes us grasp that another person – every other person indeed – is not an object on a landscape but a real subject, a subject of beauty and of infinite value, regardless of who or what he or she may be.It is empathy th…

Identifying stress cases helps us see the spectrum of varied and imperfect ways humans encounter our products, especially taking into consideration moments of stress, anxiety, and urgency. Since we are a public media news organization, designing w…

Empathy and the generosity it sparks are essential human traits. Although scientists have investigated these behaviors in depth, the neural mechanisms beneath them are still not fully understood. Breaking research gives new clues. Being generous i…

“When you read these books aloud, you can tell from their expressions that they are empathetic in relating to these characters. They understand what the characters are feeling,” says Sharon Rawlins, youth services specialist at the New Jers…

empathy expands a person’s horizons and deepens their knowledge of the world, other people, and themselves.Developing empathy and expressivity can take timeKids come to their emotions in different ways and on their own timetables, and we must be …

From 2012 until 2014, I have worked with Edwin Rutsch of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy and Compassion. Together we developed Empathy Circles as a hands-on instrument to turn theory on empathy into experiential practice. To make this…