This booklet addresses the issue of empathy in the care environment, for paid carers or volunteers. Empathy allows you to have a better understanding of the person you are caring for. This booklet covers four practical ways to get you thinking alo…

Giving test subjects Superman-like flight in a virtual reality simulator makes them more likely to exhibit altruistic behavior in real life, Stanford researchers find. If you give people superpowers, will they use those abilities for good?Researc…

As I watched my students through the last hour of the panel, I began to understand how much more difficult my challenge is than I previously thought. “Listening” is at the center of an education: It takes many forms (visual, auditory, sensory), but is …

How did Aylan Kurdi pierce the thick veil of indifference, our  indifference  as an international community, to one of the largest humanitarian crises of our generation? I would answer this with one word: Empathy.The difference betw…