empathy

Leadership, Problem-Solving, Compassion and Empathy

As Donald Trump spirals deeper into madness and depravity the toll on the collective psyche just grows. Fortunately help is…

8 years ago

Without Empathy There Is No Leadership: “All America Felt My Pain.”

"You Have Sacrificed Nothing" Grieving father Khizr Khan said four simple words:  "You have sacrificed nothing". It was one of…

8 years ago

Play to Fail Not Fail to Play

The good folks at 21 Toys are at it again. First it was TThe Empathy Toy  and now The Failure…

9 years ago

How to Help Grieving Students. And how not to.

Thanks to Valerie Strauss's blog in The Washington Post I've been alerted to a website devoted to helping grieving students.…

10 years ago

What can’t textbooks teach?

A few years ago Ken Robinson urged us to bring on the learning revolution. Well some took him seriously. The…

11 years ago

Born to Explore: Nine things we need to know about the brain

In his new book, psychologist Louis Cozolino applies the lessons of social neuroscience to the classroom. And here are his head (!) lines excerpted…

11 years ago

Elephants are People Too

We know that empathy - that ability to walk around in another's shoes - matters. We know that developing empathy…

12 years ago

Born to help

Turns out that we may be hard wired to co-operate and help out. And this behavior occurs in children before,…

15 years ago

Boxes: Part 1

Why do I stand here? I stand on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly force ourselves to…

18 years ago