How to Meditate for Beginners
Meditation has a long history, and has acquired some weird cultural baggage. If you’d like to avoid all that (while still getting the benefits), you are in the right place.
How to Feel More Hopeful
Featuring TOMÁS Q. MORINÍN | Episode 2 from: “Climate Hope & Science” | The Science of Happiness Podcast | Greater Good Magazine How can we build a sense of hope when the future feels uncertain? Poet Tomás Morín tries a writing practice to make him feel more...
How to Communicate with Love (Even When You’re Mad)
A marriage therapist offers a step-by-step guide for a conversation with your partner when emotions are running high.
Helping Students to Find Their Voice
Who are you? Why do you matter? For students, knowing, and then showing yourself in an essay is a new challenge.
Science and Spirituality
Using Science Education for Transformation / “Can Humankind Re-Integrate Our Spirituality”
How to Stop the Pain of Wishing People Were Different
Sometimes it's hard to just accept people for who they are. Here's how to be at peace with someone, faults and all.
Happiness Break: Awe for Others
The communities we create are one of the most awe-inspiring parts of our lives. Host Dacher Keltner guides us in a meditation on awe and togetherness in this week’s Happiness Break.
Three Ways to Help Your Students Cultivate Their Inner Lives
Providing space for young people to explore their spirituality may benefit everyone.
Self-Compassion Could Help You Be More Tolerant of Others
A new study finds that when you’re warm and accepting of yourself, those feelings may extend to other people, too.
How to Practice Gratitude When You’re Not Feeling Thankful
One way to feel more thankful for things is to imagine life without them. Our guest tries a practice for seeing the bright side, even when you feel down.
The Case for Discussing Spirituality in Schools
Research suggests that spirituality may be a natural developmental process—so what does this mean for secular schools?
What Multicultural Families Can Teach Kids About Character
There are more multiethnic and multi-faith families than ever. A new study reveals how their values and traditions are coming together.
Spiritual Practices & Empathy in Classrooms: How Nature Nurtures Spirituality
Thousands marched from the Army Corps of Engineers to Lafayette Park, in front of the Whitehouse, where a rally was held.
Cultivating the Spiritual Core
Over 200 participants joined live for a keynote addresses from Dr. Lisa Miller and Dr. Timothy Shriver…
CSE Supports the Awakened Campus Summit
Campus-based professionals are reporting a surge in spiritual seeking and an increase in requests by students for support to explore existential questions.
Can Mindfulness Make You Better at Apologizing?
After a short mindfulness practice, people are more willing to admit to transgressions to help repair their relationships, a new study finds.
Moving Toward and Away
10 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching/”Recovering Your Childhood in Adulthood”
Five Ways to Celebrate Your Student’s Cultures
Developing cultural competence can help teachers create more trusting relationships with students and a more positive learning environment.
How to Find Your Purpose in Life…
Are you struggling to discover your purpose? That may be because you feel isolated from other people. Here’s how you can overcome that.
How to Help Teens Put Less Pressure on Themselves
Self-compassion can help teens who are struggling with toxic perfectionism.
20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching
A workshop taken from actual experiences that honor spirituality in education.
Moving Your Body is Like a Tune-Up for Your Mind
If we want a healthy, happy mind, we need to move our body more, a new book explains.
How We’re Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health Issues
Shame and shunning make mental illness worse. But new studies suggest that attitudes are changing for the better—and that’s largely due to young people.
Looking at Spiritual Development as a System
Spiritual development in young children through reflections of research and changing thoughts and experiences.
What Does Justice for Animals Look Like?
According to philosopher Martha Nussbaum, animal justice means allowing animals the freedom to live full lives.
11 Films that Highlight the Best in Humanity
It’s time for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify optimism, love, empathy, and other keys to our well-being.
Where People in 17 Countries Find Meaning in Life
A new report asked people around the world what made their life meaningful during the pandemic.
Five College Campuses that Managed to Bridge Differences
Campus leaders across the U.S. are implementing strategies for better relationships, dialogue, and understanding across divides.
What Can We Learn from the World’s Most Peaceful Societies?
A multidisciplinary team of researchers is discovering what makes some societies more peaceful than others.
Indigenous Youth at COP26 to Influence Policy
Being an Indigenous youth at COP is extraordinarily limiting and tokenizing in a number of ways, both by nature of being Indigenous and by being youth.
Students Engage in Community Service at the Dakota Zoo
Bismarck Public Schools is teaching their students that giving back is key.
Honoring Aristotle: A Science Lesson that Fosters Intellectual Humility
Intellectual Humility, Critical Thinking, and the Art of Making Mistakes
Invisible Forces
Spiritual flourishing is invisible and yet, it can be a very powerful force in helping us humans to be more optimistic, better able to make good choices for ourselves and the world.
Grandma Ach
In two science classes on March 20, 2023 at the wonderful Rainbow Community School in Asheville, NC, I taught some thirty plus seventh and eight graders a lesson on the chemistry of bread, then we made my Grandma’s famous ‘crisps’ – fried pizza dough that you dip in powdered sugar.
Learn to Return
In 1971, I tried to learn to return to the here and now. I went to India where I was meditating for 25 days in an ashram in Haridwar, India, right at the base of the Himalayas, on the Ganges River.
The Unseen
What do you do when something terrible happens? Do you think of taking care of yourself first? You should. Then, do you seek the students? That’s what they want.
What’s in the Background?…
For those who are experiencing a space of healthy mind and spirit, ready to invent new possibilities and adventure in life, here’s what could be a fun perspective on loosening up that “curtain”.
Looking Up…
For those who are experiencing a space of healthy mind and spirit, ready to invent new possibilities and adventure in life, here’s what could be a fun perspective on loosening up that “curtain”.
The Power of Hope
Hope is the only positive emotion to require negativity or uncertainty to be activated. Learned hopefulness demonstrates how hope can be taught and cultivated, and how doing so gives us the ability to become more resilient in the presence of daunting obstacles.
Creating a Spiritual Community
I had the pleasure of presenting the main research of CSE at the Symposium on the Spirituality of Children hosted by Virginia Theological Seminary in late October 2021.
A New Years “Note” of Reflection | Spirituality in the Arts
As the world takes another ‘tour’ around the sun, choirs and a multitude of musical artists are still waiting for theirs… since health warnings still loom for public gatherings, and especially singing.
On Science & Spirituality
The Reverend Norman Hull, chaplain at Campbell Hall in southern California and CSE fellow, has recently written a reflection on his work encouraging middle school students to share their spirituality through the school’s Chapel program.