The thoughtful director of New York City’s Sara Curry Preschool and author of The Children’s Bill of Emotional Rights, Eileen Johnson has developed a philosophy of children’s emotional development. Over breakfast in the East Village, …

Susan Partnow is an organizational development and training consultant and teaches Compassionate Listening and many other empathy and compassion building processes Contributor to the book: Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening How to Build a Cu…

By developing empathy in children we have greater hope of changing the world, and creating more peaceful, caring and civil societies…   The ability to understand how others feel is at the core of our humanity. The absence of empathy underlies wa…

Animal shelter workers in the Sacramento area are learning how to cope with “compassion fatigue,” a condition associated with the emotionally draining task of caring for abused and unwanted pets.The stress can take its toll, according to ex…