Compassionate leadership must be at the heart of local, regional, and national health care efforts to nurture cultures that provide high-quality, continually improving, and compassionate care for patients and staff. Leaders must have the courage to shift from traditional hierarchical leadership approaches to compassionate leadership.
Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering. Compassion is not the same as empathy or altruism, though the concepts are related. While empathy refers more generally to our ability to take the perspective of and ...
Six Habits of Highly Compassionate People Follow these steps to feel more compassionate toward others and toward yourself.
That’s where a compassionate leader or supervisor lower down the organizational hierarchy becomes a defender of their team or people, defending them against unreasonable deadlines and demands that come from headquarters that can undermine their well-being and psychological safety and security.
They offer a blueprint for a more compassionate world. Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., a co-editor of Greater Good, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-director of the UC-Berkeley Center for the Development of Peace and Well-Being.
Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.
Given its practical bent, The Compassionate Achiever focuses less on the science of compassion and more on how to apply it. Some content seems to stray far from compassion itself—getting deep into the weeds of how to cultivate related skills, for example, or conflating compassion with simply helping others.