Karen Armstrong is an author, religious historian and former nun who observes that world religions are not helping us realize our shared humanity.  She also observes that the one thing all religions have in common is the Golden Rule: do to others what you would like to be done to you. Karen Armstrong’s TED talk [...]

In an effort to further integrate the practice of compassion into my professional and personal life, and to sharpen my emotional IQ, I just attended a weekend workshop on Compassionate Listening. You would think someone with a communications degree who spent a year of her recent professional career bringing  the father of compassion (the Dalai [...]

The Compassion movement continues! Please join the Compassionate Action Network and Seeds of Compassion on April 24th for: Compassionate Seattle; It’s Up to Us.
This event marks the two-year anniversary of Seeds of Compassion, which was the largest event in the history of Washington State. Seattle made history again by being the first city in [...]

I just returned from the Student Peace Alliance conference in Austin, Texas. Andy Barker, Ben and Jerry’s Social Mission Coordinator and I presented on business and peace-building.  Ben and Jerry’s overtly supports peace-building efforts in their social mission statement. GlobalMojo supports peace-building by providing a branded charitable web-browser that generates ongoing revenue for organizations like [...]

What nine months does for the embryo
Forty early mornings
Will do for your growing awareness
Jelaluddin Rumi
Yesterday I completed my commitment to forty days of consecutive meditation and yoga. I was inspired by a woman from Boise Idaho who started Winter Feast for the Soul. I wanted to jump-start my spiritual practice, and I knew I [...]

Valentine’s Day is a great day to reflect and evaluate how we are leading in the world: with our heads or with our hearts. I would argue that most of the time, especially those of us who pride ourselves on getting things done, spend too much time in our heads. There’s a lot of cerebral [...]

I had lunch today with my friend R. Paul Herman, founder of very cool investment concept and company called HIP Investor.  HIP stands for Human Impact + Profit. They’ve created a new index called the HIP 100 Index (TM) and it uses a completely new method for evaluating corporate profit and sustainability.  This is such [...]

Over the last three years I’ve been very impressed with Edelman’s goodpurpose report. They interview roughly 6,000 people from 10 countries to get a sense of consumer trends particularly as it relates to societal issues (environment, human services, education etc.)  As a social entrepreneur who has spent her career finding ways to strengthen nonprofits, I’m [...]