Instead of skimming sad articles on the Internet, 500 college students agreed to turn off their cell phones and spend hours outside in the rain.
They agreed to a day of discomfort and complexity, as a step toward a more compassionate world….
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Empathy offers an understanding that we
are connected and that connection is
followed by a commitment to make
things better for one another.
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Edwin Rutsch’s insight:
Role Playing and Perspective Taking.
A new study shows that a therapeutic intervention called Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) appears to improve the mental and physical health of adolescents in foster care. CBCT is a tool that provides strategies for people to develop more co…
By SHARON JAYSONIn “UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World,” her 23rd book, Dr. Borba combines scientific research with tales from real-world families and offers concrete tips on how to cultivate kindness.We talked …
Artist: Georges de La TourTitle: Kerze im Spiegel ‘There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.’ Edith Wharton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton ‘When I wish to find o…
Some 20 years of research by hundreds of experts have found that successful global leaders have great soft skills, At a recent conference on global leadership at Northeastern University, nearly 150 experts in the field came together to discuss the qual…
