Toolkit Library/

Compassion meditation

This activity by the UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center walks individuals through a process of developing empathy for others, including those who could be seen as “enemies.” The reflection begins with compassion for friends and moves outwards toward enemies and toward the world at large, an important skill when crossing the divide between people with widely divergent values (Practice M1).

   Tool

   30 minutes

   By: Greater Good Science Center

   Leader-prep | Lifelong learners


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

More on this topic:

The science of helping out

  Article

  8 minutes

  By: New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope

Overcoming the empathy gap: overcoming a societal lack of empathy

  Video

  14 minutes

  By: Fareeha Quayyum, TEDx

How sharing our stories builds inclusion

  Article

  10 minutes

  By: Harvard Business Review, Selena Rezvani and Stacey A. Gordon

What is human-centered design?

  Video

  5 minutes

  By: IDEO

The little-known emotion that makes ethical leadership contagious

  Article

  20 minutes

  By: Brett Beasley, Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership

Access our collection of +200 learning materials

PI toolkit library