My name is Michele Knox, and I am honored to be employed as a Work Readiness Instructor at The HOPE Program.
When we have a friendly relationship with ourselves, when we can listen kindly to our own experience and take our own side, we are far more likely to take action and risk the unknown.
It's in the weeks that follow tragedy that the majority of us look up from our hustle and bustle, look at strangers' faces and feel the bond of humanity. But come January, we're entrenched in our to-do lists, back in our bubbles, our connection gone. Apathy becomes our greatest contagion.
"It's not about making them pretty, it's about touching the inner person and when you touch the inner person, the beauty comes forward." In hospitals...
As a person with illness and in a wheelchair for many years, I am so frequently on the receiving end of other people's attention that I often forget there are many ways I can give.
Where The Hunger Games are the imagined price of a failed transition to sustainable prosperity, Compassion Games are the authentic reward for successful transition. May kindness be with you in the game of life!
Some of the most passionate, well-intentioned people in the world have a tendency to treat their co-workers unkindly. In an effort to restore a Culture of Caring to organizations everywhere I present to you 40 daily opportunities to rise to a place of uncommon goodness.
Not asking students for their opinions is a missed opportunity, because no one knows better about how school is going than its target audience -- the students themselves.
Having sat in on numerous school contract negotiations, I can tell you that the best contract agreement is when both sides walk away not feeling totally satisfied. That appears to be the case in Chicago.
What's more important to your business: deep behavioral analytics of your customers' every engagement with you, or employees who act in compassionate, kind, caring ways toward your customers, perhaps ignoring the very analytics, ROI, and process that you think define your brand?
Is there nothing at this stage in my life that I feel passionate about?
There is not a magic bullet for education that can be imposed from the outside. Caring teachers, led by caring principals, have been and continue to be the solution.
I am aiming the question first at mental health practitioners since the idea of helping people towards sanity and well-being has been supported by the...
When we look outward instead of inward, it is easy to become disconnected from a deep sense of the relevance of our being and our connection to one another.
Imagine if we could look at all of the citizens of the planet with kind-ness. If we looked at how alike we are, rather than how different.
Sometimes we feel embarrassed about our yearnings to be cared about. But they are completely normal. Love has been the primary driver of the development of the brain over the last 80 million years.
They are victims of urban plight and inner city decay -- the poor and the downtrodden. They include the homeless, mentally ill, unwed mothers on welfare, runaway teens, ex-offenders.
It's easy to cast a critical eye on the methods and imperfections of our mothers. Let's not today. Let's just identify the unheralded gift of having had a mother who authentically cared.
What can be done about what President Obama as a candidate presciently labeled the "empathy deficit"? The key thing is to recognize the value of relationships and the fact that we are not independent but interdependent.
Governments can use technology in a simple yet powerful way: just to show that they care. The technology implementation happening under the umbrella o...
Can you imagine being more loving in your daily life? Not just with family and friends, but with co-workers, people on the subway, or just plain old strangers?
The countries with the least economic inequality have the highest reported happiness, the longest life expectancies, and the lowest rates of crime and infant mortality.
Like hand-penned letters, the number of phone calls being made is decreasing relative to other types of electronic communications.
Is breastfeeding better than formula feeding? Every mother contemplates this question. Many instinctively "feel" that breastfeeding will lead to bette...
Most people would prefer to experience loving and to be loved over just about any other qualitative experience in life.
