This year has been a year like no other. A global pandemic, racial injustices, and political uncertainty have created a perfect storm of upheaval and uncertainty. Many people have been feeling an ...

I was churning through social media feeds one morning when the phrase tough compassion made me pause mid-scroll. On a podcast episode, psychologist and GGSC founding director Dacher Keltner described ...

The Karuna Practice works at the intersection of emotional literacy, leadership, and systems change. In this conversation Neha Bhatia and Reshma Piramal, Practice Leads at The Karuna ...

With the world in such a state of flux and division, how can we develop connection and compassion within ourselves and with others? Compassion is an action to relieve suffering through the most ...

Part one of our series revealed the numerous stressors facing youth. It also explored how practicing self-compassion—giving yourself grace as you would a friend or family member in distress—can be a ...

When I teach self-compassion to kids in schools, I do an exercise in which kids imagine that a friend of theirs has lost or broken something special. How would they respond to their friend? I then ask ...