“Soooooo How much are you going to CHARGE me, to make me FEEL better?,” a “shark” sneers at me in contempt. The five other slick entrepreneurial investors on the panel, or “sharks”, either stare off blankly or twitch in discomfort.
My co-founder Mica Stumpf and I are standing on stage at the Shark Tank Showcase, having just “pitched” our vision of bringing empathy to the world via smartphone: Empathy App.
Compassionate Wellbeing’s first conference will explore the relationship between spirituality and wellbeing. Featuring a fresh range of contemporary academic research alongside personal and practitioner accounts, this conference seeks to illuminat…
I have finally taken time to look more thoroughly at a site noted in a comment to my July 25 post on compassion research. The “Culture of Empathy” site is an aggregator of resources and information about the values of empathy and compassion. It makes i…
Facial mimicry has been suggested to be a behavioral index for emotional empathy.The present study is the first to investigate the link between facial muscle activity and empathy for pain by facial electromyographic (EMG) recording while observers watc…
The second principle in the SERVANT Leadership acronym is Empathetic. In order to lead people, you need to know what it feels like to walk a mile in their shoes.Even if you’ve never been in their position, you must have the empathy to p…
