Patricia Greenfield to Give 133rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture

BKI faculty member Patricia Greenfield will be giving the 133rd UCLA Faculty Research Lecture, a prestigious honor, and an opportunity to share her recent work with the UCLA community. Pandemic Culture: Adapting to Survival Threat and Small-Scale…

Kindness is Contagious YouTube Kids Playlist

This fall, UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers (CSS) and the Bedari Kindness Institute (BKI) are excited to collaborate alongside Actress Tabitha Brown to create a Kindness Playlist for YouTube Kids. The playlist, “Kindness…

UCLA Random Acts of Kidness Day

On February 17th, UCLA Bruin Buggy hosted a Random Acts of Kindness Day event on the UCLA Campus. Students were encouraged to take a tag with a random act of kindness or create their own tag and add it to the tree. The tree was donated to the…

World Kindness Day Q & A

In anticipation of World Kindness Day on November 13, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health connected with Dr. Robert Kim-Farley — professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, and member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of…

UCLA Volunteer Day 2021

UCLA Volunteer Day 2021, Presented by Wescom Foundation The UCLA Volunteer Center’s inaugural event, UCLA Volunteer Day, has become a cornerstone of the UCLA experience. It is one of the university’s largest community…

The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness

Please join The Friends of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital Board of Advisors for a virtual Open Mind program with Dr. Kelli Harding, author of the critically acclaimed…

This is the Moment and We are the Leaders: Transforming Self and Society with Compassion

This is the Moment and We are the Leaders: Transforming Self and Society with Compassion BKI is co-sponsoring this event, see below for more information. You can RSVP here. Wednesday, May 12 at 12:00 pm In the midst of a global pandemic…

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 interview and panel discussion video can be viewed…

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 thinkers, singers and writers, a book of wisdom to light our…

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 healing this nation and bridging divisions, it’s important to remind…