Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you act from a place of love ...

Sometimes, we can avoid hard conversations or uncomfortable connections in the name of self-love. Here's how to love yourself ...

However, the way mindfulness is taught and described today often seems to reinforce an individualistic and secular conception ...

Self-compassion helps leaders regulate stress, stay present in hard moments, and model emotional steadiness for their ...

A recent book argues that reading fiction and non-fiction can promote relational, cognitive, and emotional qualities that ...

In the face of conflict and harm, schools have traditionally punished students. But there might be a better way.

Overall crime rates are down in the United States. But looking at the news, it’s hard to not despair. Police killings of unarmed black citizens makes us question the integrity of our police forces, ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

“Thank you.” Two simple words, among the most repeated on a daily basis. When I travel to a foreign country, it is one of the first phrases I learn, just after “hello.” When children start making ...

The two of us would like to think we are. After all, over the past two years, we’ve helped to lead the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences initiative, which has been exploring the keys ...

It’s widely recognized that the crises of loneliness, disconnection, and social fragmentation are touching nearly every aspect of our lives, from personal well-being to public health to democracy ...