Articles: How to Train the Compassionate Brain
By Jason Marsh | May 23, 2013A new study finds that training in compassion makes us more altruistic—and explores the neuroscience behind why.
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Articles: Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
By Jason Marsh | May 17, 2013A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.
Articles: Meditation Makes Us Act with Compassion
By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | April 11, 2013A new study suggests mindfulness meditation can help us overcome the "bystander effect."
Articles: Does Mindfulness Make You More Compassionate?
By Shauna Shapiro | February 27, 2013Mindfulness is more than just moment-to-moment awareness, says Shauna Shapiro. It is a kind, curious awareness that helps us relate to ourselves and others with compassion.
Articles: How to Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth
By C. Daryl Cameron | January 16, 2013Many of us assume that we only have so much compassion to spare. But research says we can build our capacity to alleviate suffering.
Raising Happiness: Greater Happiness in 5 Minutes a Day
By Christine Carter | September 10, 2012How to teach kids loving-kindness meditation
Articles: Three Insights about Compassion, Meditation, and the Brain
By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | May 15, 2012What I learned at the recent International Symposium for Contemplative Studies.
Raising Happiness: 5 Tips for Boosting Your Willpower
By Christine Carter | April 23, 2012Good habits are foundational for happiness--but to create them, you need willpower.
Raising Happiness: Habits Are Everything
By Christine Carter | April 16, 2012You might know how to be happy, but can you do it?
Articles: A Training to Make Teachers Less Stressed
By Melissa Janson | March 8, 2012A new study shows how the Cultivating Emotional Balance program can help teachers (and the rest of us) reduce stress and cultivate compassion.
Articles: Stopping Teacher Burnout
By Margaret Cullen | January 19, 2012The SMART-in-Education program helps teachers cope with rising academic demands and falling budgets.
Articles: Here’s How Mindful You Are
By Jason Marsh | October 25, 2011Results from the Greater Good mindfulness quiz.
Videos and Podcasts: How to Take in the Good
By Rick Hanson | September 30, 2011Rick Hanson explains how we can boost our positive emotions and positive experiences.
Articles: How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness
By Rick Hanson | September 26, 2011Rick Hanson explains how you can intentionally change your brain to create lasting happiness and well-being.
Videos and Podcasts: Understanding Neuroplasticity
By Rick Hanson | September 18, 2011Rick Hanson explains how we can use our minds to change our brains to change our minds for the better.
Videos and Podcasts: How to Change Your Brain
By Rick Hanson | September 5, 2011Rick Hanson explains how mindfulness meditation can strengthen our brains and help us focus our attention.
Articles: The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
By Jack Kornfield | August 23, 2011Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness--and explains how the next story could be yours.
Videos and Podcasts: The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
By Jack Kornfield | August 23, 2011Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness—and explains how the next story could be yours.
Videos and Podcasts: What Forgiveness Means
By Jack Kornfield | August 21, 2011The acclaimed teacher and author explains that forgiveness isn’t quick, easy, or sentimental. But it’s invaluable for your own well-being.
Videos and Podcasts: Forgive for You
By Jack Kornfield | August 14, 2011Jack Kornfield explains that we should forgive for the sake of our own dignity and fulfillment.
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Seven Paths to a Meaningful Life
May 28, 2013A giant in the field of social psychology draws on five decades of teaching and research to reveal the secrets of a fulfilling life to today's graduating seniors.
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How to Train the Compassionate Brain
May 23, 2013A new study finds that training in compassion makes us more altruistic—and explores the neuroscience behind why.
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Five Reasons Why It’s a Good Time to be a Dad
June 12, 2013Feeling fed up and burned out, Dad? That may be a sign of progress, says Jeremy Adam Smith.
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How to Make Giving Feel Good
June 18, 2013Studies show giving makes people happy, and happiness makes people give--but not always. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton offer three ways to help people feel good about giving.
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Rethinking Family Meetings
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Death and Gratitude: Death Reflection Enhances Gratitude
June 14, 2013
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
The GGSC’s six-day Summer Institute will equip educators with social-emotional learning tools that will benefit both students and teachers. Registration is now closed.
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"Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior"
Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
- "Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
- "From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
- Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
- Northeast Foundation for Children
Northeast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
- Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
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29 Gifts
Walker’s life is in a downward spiral until she takes unusual advice from a friend: to give away 29 gifts in 29 days.
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