As a school counselor at a middle school, I find many skills can be useful to adolescents. The most important thing I try to teach my students is empathy… Empathy is a critical skill that is important for all stages of life.
Jared Buhanan-Decker
What is empathy? Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It, defines empathy as, “the art of stepping imaginatively into the shoes of another person, understanding their feelings and perspectives, and using that understa…
The ultimate purpose of innovation is to make our lives easier by transforming the way we do things (taking a taxi, flying to another country, fighting a disease, providing economic opportunities, etc.). In order to achieve this transformati…
Compassion Week is a joint initiative of the Tenzin Gyatso Institute, Stanford University’s CCARE, The Charter for Compassion, and Dignity Health, and it coming to San Francisco in a few weeks time. It will include 5 days of events featuring…
In the present study, we investigated the effects of empathic paraphrasing as an extrinsic emotion regulation technique in social conflict. We hypothesized that negative emotions elicited by social conflict can be regulated extrinsically in a conversat…
