empathy – Page 2 – Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge

A thanksgiving mindful of ALL children

Below you will find a remarkable Thanksgiving prayer-poem by child advocate Marian Wright Edelman. In its vision and compassion it reminds me of …

Black lives matter. And we’re all connected. And we’re all co-creating what happens next. What would it be like to co-create cultures …

Here is a poem that takes you on a little journey through the living essence of co-intelligence. Recently I stumbled on a …

In the last ten days two major compilations have been posted related to the co-intelligence work – one on Big Empathy and …

Big Empathy is about expanding our empathy to embrace the suffering and well-being of more of life, more deeply, more competently, and …

The social systems we live in – cultural, economic, political, and the rest – often make it difficult to effectively care. Understanding …

Many factors play a role in how collectively intelligent or wise a group, system, or situation is. Here I offer tentative lists …

All the activities of life can be viewed as efforts to satisfy fundamental needs. The specific things we think we want or …

Empathy starts out as a personal feeling of resonance with another’s pain or joy. It moves on to become the practice of …

Few people – including myself until recently – have realized how important empathy is to co-intelligence. Here I focus on four important …