Compassionate San Francisco is an incubator, accelerator and clearinghouse for compassion projects within the community. Compassion is the recognition that all beings are profoundly interconnected,… Compassion is the recognition that all beings…

I’ve long advocated what I call “diffuse empathy”. People tend to take more of an interest in the sufferings of others when they can relate to an individual’s story, and see how much they have in common with that person. This ca…

One of the most important findings of modern brain research was the discovery of mirror neurons. First observed in monkeys, these are neurons in the motor cortex which fire to produce an action but which are also seen to fire at a much lower level when…

Empathy Maps may be familiar to those who work in copywriting or marketing, but the concept was a totally new one to me. The map above might look a little like an alien’s guide to the human condition, as if an intelligent life form has just been beamed…