This day-long seminar and live webcast will explore the conceptual, biological and practical relationship between mindfulness and compassion.
The goal of this conference is to explore the important connections between mindfulness and compassion by providing answers to questions such as how are they similar or distinct, how does one promote the other, which research-tested programs have been shown to boost mindfulness and/or compassion, and much more.
In this interview with Ruth Buczynski, PhD, I talk about the evolution of the brain and the development and neuroscience of empathy.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
This post is Part 2 of a 2 Part Series on Design Thinking Students Designing Their Own School.In my vast research spanning history, politics, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, mindful awareness, and pedagogy, I’ve found a dearth of empathy and comp…
Get Empathy is a campaign to end bullying in American schools.We hold leadership development trainings with high school students that use storytelling and innovative community building strategies to foster healthy, safe, diverse school communities. The…
People often get the two words mixed up. Both have the same “pathos” root (Greek for “suffering”), so it’s not surprising. Sympathy means suffering “with” i.e. feeling compassion toward the suffe…
