Sabra Williams, an actor and the Actors’ Gang prison program director, explains that once inmates are given the tools and the opportunity to work as a team they develop empathy and start to create healthy relationships.’People in prisons survive by num…

In collaboration with the International Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR)This presentation follows the presenter’s research into Empathy and Compassion as tools in mediation and negotiation.  Empathy is often listed as…

By John GibbIt is critical for doctors and other health professionals to make use of the ”power of empathy” in dealing with their clients, Highlanders team doctor Greg Macleod says.Dr Macleod, a University of Otago graduate, was addressing about…

It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom’s good example. Research by psychologists has found that at least part of the reason some people are kind and generous is that their genes nudge them toward it…   Ox…