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"I believe that man will not
merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone
among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a
spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." Nobel Prize acceptance speech, December, 1950
A human being is part of
a whole, called by us the Universe… He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical
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We are a group of researchers working in business schools who strive to create a new vision of organizations as sites for the development and expression of compassion. We are part of a broader community of scholars who are dedicated to developing a perspective on organizations as sites for human growth and the development of human strengths. |
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Related Research Web Sites If you are interested in the research we are doing on compassion you may also be interested in the following websites. These links will take you to individuals and groups who are also conducting research in areas related to healing, growth, and vitality. Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship This is an exciting new movement in organizational studies that draws on path-breaking work in the organizational and social sciences. The Positive Organizational Scholarship movement sees compassion as a central research and teaching theme for understanding how to enable organizational and individual excellence. This is the website for the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology (PEP) Laboratory. Most of the research being conducted by the PEP Lab centers on Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. The theory states that positive emotions broaden the scope of people's attention, cognition, and action, thereby creating openness to new ideas and new courses of action. Institute for Research on Unlimited Love - (Focus on Altruism and Compassion) This is a website that takes you to information about a newly formed not-for-profit organization dedicated to research, dialogue and education on unlimited love. The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love defines "the essence of love is to affectively affirm as well as to unselfishly delight in the well-being of others, and to engage in acts of care and service on their behalf; unlimited love extends this love to all others without exception, and in an enduring and constant way. The research website provides access to white papers on this topic, describes calls for research and offers other useful leads. Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania The Positive Psychology Center promotes research, training, education, and the dissemination of Positive Psychology. This field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play. The Appreciative Inquiry Commons The Appreciative Inquiry Commons website (hosted by Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management) is devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change. AI assumes that every living system has many untapped, rich and inspiring accounts of the positive. In AI, the arduous task of intervention gives way to the speed of imagination and innovation; instead of negation, criticism, and spiraling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, and design. Link the energy of this core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized. Project Resilience is a private organization that promotes a strengths-based approach to people struggling to overcome hardships. This idea of resilience is grounded in research aimed at understanding how some people are able to pull a gratifying, constructive life out of the tremendous adversity they have faced. The organization offers teaching materials and products, provides training, and disseminates information for professionals working in education, treatment, and prevention. This website is an interdisciplinary hub for information sharing about ideas pertaining to positive science that draws on information and energy from a number of fields such as psychology, education, the arts, medicine, spirituality, and more. Project Compassion at the Stanford School of Medicine The Center for Compassion & Altruism Research and Education, part of the School of Medicine at Stanford University, is a community of scholars and researchers, including neuroscientists, psychologists, neuroeconomists and contemplative scholars, who seek a deep understanding of compassion and its associated human behaviors in all its richness. The Greater Good Science Center, University of California at Berkeley The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society. There are many useful articles and podcasts related to compassion. |
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