Most of us spend more waking hours beside our coworkers than beside anyone else, so work ends up being where a surprising ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the ...

​Nonprofits, particularly those serving high-need populations such as individuals with disabilities or the unhoused, can be ...

WHAT COMPASSION IS NOT 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 ...

We're all tired and could do with a four-day working week... and have a lot going on in our personal lives. But, while you may have heard of burnout (where prolonged stress affects our wellbeing), ...

Several years ago, I was out walking my son in his stroller (he was somewhere around six months old) when a homeless woman approached me asking for money. I'd seen her before in the neighborhood many ...

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 ...

Self-compassion is the ongoing practice of relating to yourself kindly and fairly. It is especially helpful during times of stress and suffering. Self-compassion is not kicking yourself when you’re ...

In many families, quiet acts of kindness between siblings appear in the most unexpected moments. Through worry, mistakes, and ...

Caring for someone with depression is an act of love. But over time, it can also become mentally and physically exhausting in ways that are hard to describe. You might find yourself always offering ...

In this grounded theory study, palliative cancer patients' understanding and experiences of compassion were explored through semistructured interviews to provide a critical perspective on the nature ...