The power of love

Dear friends,

here I would like to propose again one of my initiatives which had been scheduled for the month of March and which was canceled due to the lockdown. Also allow me to resume here the text of my newsletter which I then sent. I believe that its content is always very topical, in a period in which new ways are being sought to come out better.

About ten years ago, a very interesting book came into my hands: The Ways and Power of Love by Pitirim A. Sorokin, one of the great fathers of European and American sociology, founder of the Faculty of Sociology at Harvard University, as well as the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism.

Sorokin in these studies, which date back to the 1950s, had shown that the formidable force of "selfless love" is a source of creative energy not only for survival but also for the harmonious and profitable development of mankind. 

In light of the neuroscientific discoveries of recent years, these insights have proved correct. The "intuitive short circuit", as Sorokin calls it, typical of the discoveries of great scientists, such as Newton, Galileo, Pascal, Einstein, etc., had worked in him. 

Thoughts, emotions and gestures of an altruistic nature such as gratitude, kindness, compassion, the spirit of sacrifice for the achievement of noble and shared goals, modify some areas of the brain. Such "virtuous behaviors", if repeated over time, amplify and enhance the scope of these areas. These are changes that help people, work groups and organizations to significantly improve their performances.

For several years, personally, I have developed this type of training especially in work groups, with very positive results.

Wednesday 30 September at 21:00 we will do this experience together at the Devadatta Center in Milan (for more info see the poster attached here).

Read also the online monthly Positive Revolution. In every issue we host prestigious signatures. On the Editorial Board: Edoardo Boncinelli, scientist, Enrico Giovannini, economist and Roberto Cingolani, physicist. https://www.rivoluzionepositiva.com

A warm greeting,

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