Compassion Changes How We Act and React
How we act when confronted with significant disruption - fear, anger, loss and grief -- influences the long term health and resilience of both individuals and groups. Consider how responding with compassion leads to new patterns of actions and reactions in the face of disruptive experiences. Dr. Helen Weng, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California–San Francisco, with faculty appointments at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and Neuroscape Center led a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin who studied the [...]