What Compassionate Organizations Look Like
Two compassionate organizations that are leading the way through education, innovation, and community. Read More
Articles by Caren Osten Gerszberg
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
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How Compassion Changes Our World, According to Science
Offering compassion to ourselves and others is essential for promoting real change for the better. Caren Osten Gerszberg reports on scientific studies of compassion, showing how this innately human quality benefits our health, our communities, and our fractured world. Read More
Mindfulness For
How UK Politicians Are Learning to Disagree—More Agreeably
In the often heated, sometimes chaotic halls of the UK Parliament, scholars, thinkers, politicians, and policy-makers have been weaving in threads of mindfulness. The result: not a change in ideologies but a shift toward more positive and productive relationships across parties. Read More
Focus & Attention
5 Mindful Lessons from the Halls of Westminster
Here are some key takeaways from MPs in the UK Parliament who have been learning and practicing mindfulness in a heated workplace environment. Read More
Creativity
Getting Started with Mindful Writing
Mindful writing can lead you on the path of inner discovery. It can be the place where your experience meets your mindfulness practice, a place to encounter the twists and turns of your emotional life—and a bit of solid ground to stand on. Read More
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A Mindful Guide to Navigating Difficult Emotions
World-renowned meditation teachers and researchers describe why courageously turning toward and meeting difficult emotions with kind awareness and self-compassion is so transformational. Read More
Guided Meditations
Befriend Painful Emotions with the Handshake Practice
Science supports this four-step process for turning toward difficult emotions with acceptance. Read More
Body Scan
A Mindfulness Practice to Help Navigate Tough Moments
Powerful emotions are rooted in our body, in our physiology. Here’s a tool to help to discern what you need in difficult moments. Read More
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How Integrity Can Heal Burnout
Evidence from healthcare worker communities shows how strengthening our moral resilience, with support by mindfulness, can help us avoid overwhelm at work. Read More
Breathing Meditations
Why Your Outbreath is Connected to Your Well-Being
What is the vagus nerve, and how does it connect to our breathing and emotions? Learn the science around this key messenger of the nervous system. Read More
