Survival of the Kindest: Professor Dacher Keltner - Compassion and Power

Professor Dacher Keltner’s work focuses on how compassion enriches our life, and how much its absence effects our lives and how the ability to not be compassionate is learned and created. His work is reshaping what we know and understand about kindness, and what seems to be its antithesis, power. He was the advisor for the film Inside Out, which caught many of us unawares with the recognisability of the representation of how we think, how we remember, how we choose, and how all emotions are important, even the hard ones. Professor Keltner discusses how our history points towards the need for compassion, how we have misunderstood what Darwin and Adam Smith say, and how we ‘have largely been sold a Neo-liberal lie that misrepresents human nature and what matters’.If you ever need help please call Samaritans free on 116 123 or email [email protected] or for America https://suicideprevention.wikia.org/wiki/USAWe have a podcast extra on the Survival of the Kindest podcast. This will be placed at the end of the main interview for those people who make it all the way to the end. Our hope is to create a meeting place for podcast listeners. We would like to see a 2 way conversation amongst people interested in exploring matters relating to compassion. We will chat about latest news, events, feedback, questions, educational activities and whatever our audience see fit to bring up. We at Compassionate Communities UK will be expanding our activities over the coming months, with live events, discussion, education and much more. Please get in touch to let us know your small things that have made big differences, things going on in your area, or anything you want to talk to us about. Email us [email protected] Survival of the Kindest on Twitter, Instagram and subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you like to listen to get our episodes as they are released.