Some of the most powerful messages that I took away from the 2013 Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference this past December were the ideas and messages presented by Paul Ekman PhD on compassion. This short clip is a beautiful summary of his current thinking and research, and I believe poses a question and a challenge to each and every one of us.

Please watch to the very end where he poses what I believe is the most powerful and challenging viewpoint of all regarding human compassion and how it is formed – or not.