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Women’s Values in Public and Private Organizations – Bocconi University

The latest scientific research shows that integrating values considered typically feminine, such as compassion, kindness, and empathy, has a significant impact on longevity, well-being, productivity, and social inclusion.

Meditation Rave – Milan Museum City 2024

Meditation Rave, a day of collective meditation in Milan between science and spirituality to rediscover the value of diversity

Nika Island – The World’s Kindest Island

“International Kindness Movement” founder Daniel Lumera: “Kindness is able to overcome all cultural barriers because it is a universal language that speaks through the intelligence of the heart.”

Festival of Kindness – Florence 2023

From Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, more than 100 speakers and 60 events are scheduled from morning to evening in all five city neighborhoods, with free and open access, some usable via live streaming from official City Council channels. A true ‘spread out’ festival to tell and experience kindness in 360 degrees.

Energy of Life exhibition

Beverly Hills-based jeweller, designer, and tastemaker Martin Katz is pleased to announce a collaboration with Italian artist and sculptor Andrea Roggi to unveil the Energy of Life sculpture in Florence. The installation will be on display to the public from November 3- 6, 2023, inside the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, in the historic heart of the city.

Mont Blanc Gentile – Daniel Lumera to Skyway for inauguration of Mont Blanc shrine

He will be at Skyway on Sunday, June 26, to inaugurate the Mont Blanc nature sanctuary Daniel Lumera, lecturer and international reference in the area of wellness science, quality of life and meditation practice.

Green Planner – Kind Italian municipalities: today you can. And here’s how to become Continue reading at Green Planner Magazine: Kind Italian municipalities: today you can. And this is how it becomes

A cutting-edge and little-known initiative to enhance the relationship between institutions, citizens, territory and nature through education for individual awareness and well-being: here are the kind Italian municipalities.

Coop Informant – Building Gentile Communities

“In a world where the sense of identity and belonging is constructed through someone’s blaming and conflict, kindness is a social provocation, because it creates identity from the ability to care for others, it educates to listen to oneself and others,” says Daniel Lumera, a natural biologist, writer and trainer, who with Unicoop Florence has created “Kind Communities,” the new educational proposal dedicated to primary and middle school students, which proposes kindness as a founding value of civil and democratic coexistence.

Wellness and Productivity, a new paradigm for Companies

In an increasingly fast-paced and competitive business world, personal well-being is often sacrificed in the name of productivity. But is this really the case? Daniel Lumera, an international expert in the area of well-being and quality of life, and author of the bestselling Biology of Kindness, turns this perspective on its head: investing in well-being and human values not only reduces stress, but can even increase productivity.

Vanity Fair – Spiritual Intelligence

Wildlife biologist Daniel Lumera, a meditation expert, calls human beings back to a dimension of kindness, empathy, compassion and gratitude. These are all values that underlie what is called spiritual intelligence, “being in connection with oneself to understand the soul of the world.”

Millionaire – Kindness pays (and yields)

Kindness pays (and pays off). It is the key word of the moment. It makes you feel better and helps in business. It makes us more productive and teaches us to be a team player. Resurgence of a practice that seemed forgotten.

The Daily Fact – Being Kind.

Daniel Lumera explains why “being kind improves physical and mental health.” Even when it comes to negotiating for the end of a war.

Rai Radio 1 – Episode of 19/02/2022

Episode of 02/19/2022
Kindness between choice and new trend, with Daniel Lumera, international lecturer, writer and trainer and Ciro Piccoli, Mayor of Montegaldella.

I Donna – Kindness makes us live longer and better, science says

Darwinian theory has been turned on its head: the one who will survive will not be the strongest and most competitive, but the one who is most empathetic and close to others. This is argued by a sociobiologist, Daniel Lumera, and an epidemiologist, Immacutata De Vivo, in the book Biology of Kindness, which is already the manifesto of a revolution

7 Seven – The science of kindness: those who cultivate it live longer and get sicker less

Kindness is an indispensable social provocation in a time when verbal, physical and economic violence is rampant; when a sense of belonging, consensus and identity are constructed by virtue of creating an enemy to fight against, a culprit to condemn, a counterpart to crush, criticize and judge.

Courier Good News – World Kindness Day (In Italy it lasts all week)

World Kindness Day is celebrated today, November 13. Until Sunday, the online initiatives of the “Gentle Italy” movement, which began with the first wave of Covid and now brings together dozens of Italian municipalities and more than 200,000 citizens

Evening Courier – Living better: the 6 daily choices for health, wellness and longevity

Does being kind have a direct impact on our genes? Does happiness help anti-inflammatory processes? These questions are answered by “Biology of Kindness,” on newsstands now with the Courier. Here’s how lifestyles affect DNA and well-being.

State of Mind – Biology of Kindness (2020) by Immaculata de Vivo and Daniel Lumera – Book Review

The book Biology of Kindness explains how each of us has the power to control and thus directly influence our own health status