Milenthal worked to create a culture where talking about mental health isn’t career suicide — it's just talking.

The answers to these questions aren’t just important for feel-good reasons. Recent research suggests that more compassionate workplaces reap substantive benefits when it comes to employee wellness, ...

Monica Worline: Well, it might seem soft and fuzzy, but in fact, if you’re trying to innovate quickly and telling people to fail fast, people hate to fail, and failing creates suffering. Compassion is ...

"With a guiding principle of ‘first do no harm,' compassionate conservation offers a bold, virtuous, inclusive, and forward-looking framework that provides a meeting place for different perspectives ...

Two years ago, Nathalie Traller spent her days like any seventh-grader might. She played soccer and swam and studied for classes. Then Nathalie started getting bad headaches, the kind that made it ...

In my last blog entry, Stop Self-Criticism With Compassionate Self-Awareness, I offered a way to help you stop being self-critical. The last part of the approach included advice to respond to yourself ...

Although the importance of communication in fostering better relationships and solving problems is well-recognized, much focus has been placed on "talking it out"—while the role of listening tends to ...

The US Sentencing Commission attempted to expand compassionate release for prisoners in 2023. The Supreme Court just shot that down.

In Fernandez, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, concurred in the result, relying on a narrower ground: ...