Venerable Thubten Chodron shares on a New York Times article, “Empathy May Be Overrated in an Election, and in a Leader” by John Tierney.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Seven reasons why being empathetic can be difficult and what you can do to increase your empathy as a parent. Sometimes when I watch my child crumple into a screeching, sobbing mess at my feet, all I hear in my head is, “You have got to be …

Virtual reality has repeatedly been called an “empathy machine,” and filmmakers and advertisers are flocking to the nascent technology to leverage its emotive connectivity. But how accurate is that moniker?  Certainly, VR projects can offer viewer…

These future doctors aren’t playwrights, but they’ll play them on Tuesday.That’s when the students of Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College team up with Lantern Theater Company to present “The Truth B…