Is Kindness Contagious?
On Wednesday, April 21, the UCLA Women and Philanthropy hosted an event featuring a panel of researchers from the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute to discuss innovative kindness research. The full […]
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Now Available: The Call to Unite
The Call to Unite is now available. Read below for a description or click here for more information. From some of our most prominent spiritual and religious leaders, poets and […]
Bedari Kindness Institute Supports “Just Say Hello” Campaign to Help Bridge Racial Divide
“Just Say Hello” is a campaign for small gestures with a big message: Say hello to somebody who doesn’t look like you. Now, more than ever, as we strive towards […]
Analyzing Angkorian Compassion Through an Archeological Lens
Piphal Heng, postdoctoral fellow at Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, offers an alternative approach to archeological research to explore how Angkor was led with compassion. “Archeology provides […]
Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate
Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate Thursday, January 14 6:00 p.m. PST | 9:00 p.m. EST As a new U.S. presidential administration prepares for the four years ahead, […]
Bedari Kindness Institute Featured in LA Magazine
UCLA and other schools are studying kindness as an Antidote to a cruel world. This LA Magazine article focuses on the effort to make a fuzzy abstract an academic discipline […]
World Kindness Day: Good Deeds Have Positive Effects on Mind and Body
Recent articles in Inquirer.net and Malaymail.com, feature the Bedari Kindness Institute and Dean Hunt. Here is an excerpt from one of the articles: If kindness is first and foremost selfless, […]
World Kindness Day Film Screening of The Antidote Documentary
World Kindness Day is Friday, November 13. The Bedari Kindness Institute is hosting a virtual film screening in partnership with The Antidote Movie – a documentary that weaves together stories […]
Vichy’s Family Separation Policy, and Our Own
BKI faculty member, Aliza Luft shares an essay on Scatterplot about the parallels between U.S. immigration practices of child separation and the actions of the Vichy regime during WWII — […]
Dan Fessler’s Interview with the Mentors Radio
Dan Fessler, Faculty Director of the Bedari Kindness Institute, recently talked with Host Tom Loarie from the Mentors Radio, about human nature, culture, and the underestimated power of kindness. Find […]