"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." As we ring in 2025, the words of American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou ring particularly true. After all, we all could use a little more ...

One of the six values that Brown's Division of Campus Life lists on its website is “empathy.” The University specifies empathy to mean, “We create a culture of care for our students and colleagues by ...

In nature, thriving ecosystems demonstrate a remarkable balance of interdependence and inclusivity. Each species, no matter how small, plays a role in sustaining the whole. This same principle applies ...

Holiday gatherings can come with the invisible stress of potential arguments and conflict. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Tapping into empathy skills can help prepare you to face conflict head-on ...

The year 2020 has been no stranger to suffering. In the midst of a global pandemic, widespread financial hardship and violence arising from systemic racism, empathy for others’ suffering has been ...

CEOs are under pressure—I get it. Economic instability, lingering tariffs, AI reshaping the rules, a shifting talent market—the list is long. Every day, we make tough calls to navigate these headwinds ...

More precisely, empathy is the capacity to put yourself into someone else’s position; to understand or feel what they’re experiencing. An early 20C English coinage, it derives from the Greek ἐμπάθεια ...