Research suggests it’s not compassion that wears doctors down but a different emotion — a distinction that may help them ...

Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

Technology is intensifying isolation, and recognizing our shared human struggles — or common humanity — is a practical, ...

Compassion, in my view, is neither empathy nor sympathy, but requires both. Empathy involves responding to another person's emotions with emotions that are similar. Sympathy entails feeling regret for ...

Compassion-focused therapy helps people be kinder to themselves and others. CFT works by combining compassion training with mindfulness and other techniques. Compassion-focused therapy can help with ...

In Western culture, many people mistakenly believe that self-criticism is useful, that it can motivate us to be better people; that if we’re hard on ourselves, we’re more likely to improve. But ...

Empathy is essential for leadership—but constant caregiving can extract a heavy toll on leaders. We even see such leaders within our own teams who struggle to watch them burn themselves out. So how ...

March 8th- 4:30pm- 6:30pm Workshop on Compassion: What it is/not, how it heals, from the individual, work, to global facilitated by Daniel Martin, Ph.D. Join us for a fun and deep two-hour workshop as ...

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Seeking answers, Amherst College freshman Luke Healey sat hunched over his notebook in the back of Johnson Chapel on campus, intently taking notes as the Dalai Lama’s primary English translator, Geshe ...