What is empathy? What does it really mean? What does it look like Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most “negative” emotions, and opens startling new pathways into the depths of the soul.
She is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill (2013),
The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (2010).
by Kristie WangThe David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Ashoka Changemakers have announced the six winners of Building Vibrant Communities: Activating Empathy to Create Change! The challenge sought local initiatives that tap the power of empath…
That acerbic condescension reflects one of this country’s fundamental problems: an empathy gap. It reflects the delusion on the part of many affluent Americans that those like Kevin are lazy or living cushy lives.A poll released this month by the…
Kids can act out when they’re feeling isolated, so one Philadelphia school encourages students to take the mic and reveal their deepest fears in front of their peers. The result? Honesty and kindness.Imagine this: a high school assembly where students …
THE concept of evil has come to seem archaic. It suggests something external to us, something apart from human agency, and invoking the word has the opposite effect of what is usually intended: it reduces moral responsibility. Calling the exterm…
