Beauvoir Elementary School is using toddlers to help raise social and emotional competence and increase empathy within the classroom in order to reduce aggression.
The “Roots of Empathy” curriculum has nine themes that are specialized for students in grades kindergarten through eighth. A certified instructor meets with the students before and after the family visits to prepare each theme or review what they saw.
Parenting Strategies that Teach EmpathyChildren don’t pick up on empathy skills all on their own. Instead, it’s important to take a proactive approach to helping them learn how to empathize.Here are several strategies that teach empathy:&nb…
Last week, Facebook invited national experts to its Palo Alto campus to share the science behind compassion and altruism. In the audience, engineers listened intently to ideas about humanizing interactions. Humans are hard-wired for compassionate behav…
Dalai Lama Fellows, a unique global program personally authorized by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, envisions and works towards a world that tends to the good of the whole as well as of the individual.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compa…
For two days last week, Danbury was Dalai Lama Central, the epicenter of peace and compassion. The visit by His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, was nothing short of a coup for Western Connecticut State University, and of course, the Do Ngak Kunphen Ling…
