Compassion, at its core, is a distinctly human act. Does that mean that organizations cannot be compassionate?

Organizational compassion requires compassionate intention. Without that intention, the benefits of compassion are unlikely to follow.

The same attributes that lead to gaining power are attributes that are undermined once one has achieved a position of power. Dacher Keltner, in The Power Paradox, shows us the origins of power, how it is part of all our everyday transactions and can consistently be a positive thing, how power can be abused and lost, and the costs of subjecting others to conditions that create powerlessness.

Love is the most powerful and constructive emotion we have. So why are we afraid to talk about it and use it as leaders?

Remember when you were a curious child? We were all born curious. Renew your curiosity to strengthen your compassionate leadership.

In our first post about the Epidemiology of Compassion and Love conference, we covered a broad swath of territory addressed during the meeting. We wanted to share more insights from the groundbreaking symposium.

No term describes the simultaneous presence of 2 positive attributes in an individual the way comorbidity describes the simultaneous presence of 2 diseases. This isn’t a surprise. Epidemiology has been around since the 1850s, while widespread scientific study of positive emotions and behaviors is more recent. This language gap should be closed and we propose doing so with a new word, “covitality.”

Spreading compassion and love everywhere is no small feat. Last week, we gathered with scholars, scientists, practitioners and leaders from around the world to focus on using the science of epidemiology as a tool to expand compassion and love on a global scale.

Welcome to the 2020s, The Decade of Compassion! Three key attributes of this moment point to this being the right time, the critical time for this decade to become The Decade of Compassion.

The holidays can bring out the best and the unintended worst in many of us. Try showing up with good intentions, stay grounded, and pay attention to your language. Although the challenges might reach back through generations, and have felt impossible to overcome in the past, you might just discover that you feel more at ease with a positive language and mindset.