The Charter for Compassion
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | Tags: altruism, compassion, events | 1 Comment »When renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong won the coveted TED prize, she was asked to make a single wish, one that the TED community would help her achieve. Her modest request? To unite the world around compassion. Now, one year later, she's ...
Why to Be Good, How to Be Happy
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 | Tags: Dacher Keltner, compassion, events, happiness | 4 Comments »This Thursday, the Greater Good Science Center will be hosting "Why to Be Good, How to Be Happy," the third seminar in its "Science of a Meaningful Life" series and its first in Los Angeles. We want to hear from those ...
What happens when compassion hurts?
Friday, May 8th, 2009 | Tags: Uncategorized, compassion, empathy, goodness, helping behavior, human nature, mindfulness, violence | 3 Comments »This is the edited transcript of a May 7 talk I gave to the nurses of UC Berkeley Health Services on surviving compassion fatigue. I’m going to warn you: This is a somewhat difficult talk, full of paradoxes. I’m going ...
Darwin’s Touch: Survival of the Kindest
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | Tags: Dacher Keltner, altruism, compassion, cooperation, evolution, genetics, goodness, prosocial behavior, psychology | 2 Comments »Two hundred years ago today, Adam Gopnik writes in Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, two pebbles -- Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln -- were dropped into the sea of life. Their ideas and ...
Dacher Keltner-Paul Ekman Seminar
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | Tags: compassion, emotional intelligence, events, happiness, health, social intelligence | 1 Comment »We here at the Greater Good Science Center are pretty excited to announce a new series of events we'll be hosting this year. Our "Science of a Meaningful Life" seminar series is designed to help audiences apply groundbreaking scientific findings to ...
Paul Ekman-Dalai Lama book event
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Tags: compassion, emotional intelligence, emotional literacy, empathy, events, goodness, happiness, human nature, morality, neuroscience, prosocial behavior, psychology, religion | Leave a Comment »On October 22, Greater Good magazine and the Greater Good Science Center will be hosting a special event with world-renowned psychologist Paul Ekman. Ekman, a Greater Good editorial board member, recently published Emotional Awareness, an extended conversation between himself and ...
