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As part of our mission to promote empathy and inspire positive change, we share our insights in various outlets. These articles highlight our efforts to foster understanding, empower others, and drive meaningful impact.
Creating Your Vision Board: Unlocking the Power of Intention
By Kyoung Mi Choi
With 2025 around the corner, we offer a different approach to New Year’s resolutions that is focused on what you actually want in the year ahead.
Reflecting on Purpose, Connection and Empathy Thanks to Tilda Swinton
By Christel van der Boom
Personal reflections on questions about purpose, authenticity and connection sparked by an interview with Tilda Swinton.
A Conversation with Kyoung Mi Choi on Rewriting Her Family’s Story
By Family Room
Our co-founder Kyoung Mi Choi discusses her memoir, The Child Behind the Bushes: A Daughter’s Healing Journey of Intergenerational Trauma on Roots Reclaimed.
Artificial Empathy: What if AI Understood Us?
By Christel van der Boom
While creating empathetic AI is necessary, Aza Raskin and Yuval Noah Harari make incredibly insightful and powerful points about the impact artificial empathy will have on people and society on an episode of the Your Undivided Attention podcast.
By Family Room
Survey says: Mutual empathy between leaders and employees builds a culture that boosts efficiency, creativity, and innovation. Yet over 50 percent of employees don't believe their company’s empathy efforts are insincere.
How Reboot Reminded Me of What Matters Most in Leadership and Life
By Christel van der Boom
Reboot by Jerry Colonna shows that leadership is a continuous process of personal growth and self-discovery. This reflects our belief that leadership is strongest when rooted in authenticity, emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
Empathy in Leadership in the 21st Century
By Christel van der Boom
Lessons in empathic leadership from the DNC 2024: By embracing both sides of empathy—understanding others and earning their understanding—leaders can foster deeper relationships and build the trust needed to drive meaningful change.
Embracing the AI Revolution Without Losing Ourselves
By Christel van der Boom
AI agents are pretty amazing—they can almost feel like working with a person. But as helpful as they are, people still need people. Here is why soft skills like self-awareness, empathy and communication matter more than ever.
Tips for Leaders from “How to Sustain Your Empathy in Difficult Times”
By Family Room
Our takeaways from Jamil Zaki’s HBR article on empathy. By learning and practicing empathy, leaders boost team performance, reduce burnout and create a supportive workplace. Empathy is a superpower and a skill.
Strategic Communication in the Digital Age: Insights from Renée DiResta
By Christel van der Boom
In her book "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality” Renee DiResta suggests strategies to combat the spread of disinformation stemming from social media platforms' structure, which inherently promotes sensational content.
A Daughter’s Healing Journey of Intergenerational Trauma
By Kyoung Mi Choi
Breaking the silence led me and my mother to experience empowerment and healing. That’s what we discovered when we started sharing our stories with each other at first and ultimately through our memoir writing.
The Power of Vision-Making in Cross-Cultural Relationships
By Kyoung Mi Choi
Cross-cultural relationships can face additional challenges due to differing cultural expectations. Creating a shared vision fosters understanding, appreciation, and open communication between partners. Learn 5 steps to refine their relationship vision.
Empathetic Leadership in the Age of AI
By Christel van der Boom
The power of empathy in leadership and communication is needed now more than ever. In a field driven by logic and data, our ability to connect, to understand, and to lead with human values is what transforms good leaders into great ones.
Cultural Biographies for Cross-Cultural Couples
By Kyoung Mi Choi
The key to success in cross-cultural relationships involves how couples navigate cultural differences. Reflecting on and sharing their cultural biographies can help couples deepen their relationship.
Helping the Helpers Through Mindful Self-Care
By Kyoung Mi Choi
Research shows that mindfulness can yield a multitude of advantages, encompassing reduced anxiety and depression levels, heightened life satisfaction, amplified social connections, increased optimism, enhanced tolerance, empathy, and self-confidence
Teaching About Antisemitism Today
By Christel van der Boom
Antisemitism is surging. When a friend, an AP U.S. Government and Politics teacher at a local high school, recently asked me to discuss antisemitism in today’s media with her senior class, I agreed.
Intergenerational Healing Journey With My Korean Mother
By Kyoung Mi Choi
In our courageous conversations, my mother and I rediscovered love, forgiveness, and liberation through the process of unpacking troubling yet formative personal stories.
In Solidarity with Transgender Women
By Christel van der Boom
An op-ed supporting transgender women, addressing some of the pressing issues faced by our transgender sisters.
The Power of Collective Healing Among Asian Women
By Kyoung Mi Choi
Considerations when supporting Asian and Asian American women to break the silence and start the healing journey