Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child

The acclaimed program for fostering empathy and emotional literacy in children—with the goal of creating a more civil society, one child at a time

Roots of Empathy—an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon—has already reached more than a million children in 14 countries, including Canada, the US, Japan, Australia, and the UK. Now, as The New York Times reports that “empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pres...