The Autism team created the Empathy Box, a collaborative storytelling tool to build empathy for families affected by autism.  They had originally focused their project on the design of learning spaces for children with autism.  However, throu…

Regularly playing music in groups may improve children’s ability to empathise with others, suggests a study. Researchers from Cambridge University compared empathy skills in children who played weekly music-based games for a year with those who di…

Looking at photos of starving refugees or earthquake victims can trigger a visceral sense of empathy. But how, exactly, do we feel others’ agony as our own? A new study suggests that seeing others in pain engages some of the same neural pathways …

A common belief is that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, and that our full potential is realized through the practices of love and empathy, and the Ubuntu philosophy.And that’s true! But we can’t ever f…