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Branson’s B Team – Show Me Numbers!
Written by David Erasmus. Branson posted yesterday about his intentions for his B Team, a high velocity group of people including Arianna who have a real shot at helping us reshape our expectations of business in society. Branson writes…. “We will addr …
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Stanford Rolls Out Compassion Cultivation Training
Written by Sara Schairer. The Dalai Lama is now touring through the United States until May 21st, 2013 with the next stop in Portland at Maitripa College on May 7. I personally have a special affinity for his presence, as I’m nearing the end of the ina …
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Can Meditative Breathing Relieve PTSD Symptoms for Vets?
Written by Rebecca Ruiz. Post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the signature wounds of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; according to one estimate, as many as 20 percent of the service members who were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan have the psychiatr …
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The Question that Ends Tension
How Compassion and Being Present to End Tension from First for Women magazine. For the first part of the article, click here. For the second part of the article, click here.
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Compassion and the Bottom Line
Written by Michael Kinsman. Compassion isn’t a word that is easily digested in the business world. More often, we like to define our businesses as results-oriented, hard-driving and able to steamroll any obstacles that stand in the way of an objective. …
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The Promise of Yoga-Based Treatments to Help Veterans with PTSD
Written by Michelle Brandt. A close friend recently told me about the post-traumatic stress disorder research of Stanford’s Emma Seppala, PhD, whom she knows from the yoga community in Madison, Wisc. (Seppela did her postdoctoral work there.) It was am …
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Breathing Exercises Help Veterans Find Peace After War
Written by Brooke Donald. Post-traumatic stress disorder affects about one in five veterans, and traditional treatments that can include medication and therapy only relieve symptoms in about half of those who seek it, experts say. But new research by S …
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Compassion Will Make You Happy
Marketing executives want us to believe that happiness lies in a product that will taste delicious, magically fill our bank accounts, or transform us into a supermodel that looks not a day past 20. Our social norms promise that happiness will lie in st …
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Compassion, the Workplace, and Leadership
Written by John Ballard, Ph.D. When we list leadership characteristics, compassion is probably not first on the list, or even on the list, but perhaps it should be. Emma Seppala has an excellent article on compassion in the May/June issue of theObserve …
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Offra Gerstein, Relationship Matters: The Wonders of Altruism
Written by Offra Gerstein. The recent acts of heroism seen immediately following the Boston Marathon explosions may have rekindled our public amazement at the courage of untrained strangers who put themselves at risk to aid others. What is the source o …
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How the Stress of Disaster Brings People Together
Written by Emma Seppala, Ph.D. Ever feel that stress makes you more cranky, hot-headed or irritable? For men in particular, we think of stress as generating testosterone-fueled aggression – thus instances of road rage, or the need to “blow off steam” a …
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Business and Compassion
Written by Paula Pyne. I just returned from The San Francisco Bay area where I attended the inaugural Business events-science-of-compassion-conference-thumb2and Compassion Conference at Stanford University, School of Medicine. It was hosted by CCARE, t …
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Stanford Center Highlights the Benefits of Compassionate Workplaces
Written by Brooke Donald. The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford brought together leaders in business and academia to talk about the role of compassion in business. The latest research suggests that a more compassiona …
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On Grudges and Forgiveness
Written by Jayanth Narayanan, PhD. One of the most difficult things to do when we feel wronged upon is to forgive those who have inflicted harm on us. Great leaders are able to channel such anger to bring about social change. In fact the very reason wh …
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International Compassion Summit Launches Year-Long Effort in Anticipation of a Visit by the Dalai Lama
Written By Karen Armstrong. The 2013 International Summit Conference on Compassionate Organizations will bring an international group of representatives together on May 16th through the 18th to Louisville, Kentucky in anticipation of a visit by the Dal …
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Boston Marathon’s Heroes and the Science Behind Compassion
Written by Tamarra Kemsley. The acts of heroism seen even within seconds of the detonation of the bombs at Boston Marathon included people who seemed to utterly forget fear for their own wellbeing in order to protect that of others. However, Tuesday’s …
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Compassion Important for Our Survival
Written by Agneta Lagercrantz. James Doty, the son of an alcoholic, became a neurosurgeon and founded a research center for compassion and altruism at Stanford, USA. At 13, his life changed – thanks to a woman who taught him positive thinking. Follow o …
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Compassion and Business?
Written by Scott Kriens. When first asked to speak at the upcoming Compassion and Business conference, I was struck by how seldom we hear those two words in the same sentence. Why? I think it’s because we think of compassion too abstractly, and we’re p …
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Sustaining Compassion in Health Care
Written by Robert McClure. As demands on health care providers increase, compassion becomes more difficult to sustain. But a new training holds the promise of helping them meet those challenges. After 30 years in health care, I was ready to retire. But …
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Mainstream Media Missing Mark on Mind-Body Medicine
LOS ALTOS, CA, February 21, 2013 – Dr. James Doty is a world-class neurosurgeon and professor at Stanford University. He’s an inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who supports a number of global health initiatives; a member of the Board of Direct …
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How to Turn Gang Members into Ex-Gang Members
Written by Bonnie Tsui. What is it that finally makes a gang member renounce his violent ways? Or a former Hamas extremist turn to reconciliation instead of suicide bombs? The answers are remarkably similar, based on a recent study from researchers at …
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The Magic of Compassion Science
Written by Janis Daddona. Have you ever sat down with your doctor and talked about your brain—heart to heart? Neither have I. But that’s exactly what happened in our Forest Call with Dr. James Doty. Apparently he is capable of living several lives si …
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Surviving PTSD: Helping Your Military Loved Ones Get the Help They Need
Written by Ericka Souter. It’s frightening to watch a loved one go off to war, but what many military families have discovered is that another battle begins once they return home. Nearly 30 percent of the 834,463 soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghani …
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What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change Conversation
What’s the counterpoint to “Drill, baby, drill”? In the emerging field of meme science, researchers try to figure out what language and ideas resonate when it comes to the warming of the planet.
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Mitt Romney, Man of Compassion?
Somewhere between his traditional social circle and the broader world — a place inhabited by strangers whose jobs might require elimination in pursuit of profit — Romney seems to lose emotional regard for the troubles of others
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