Mapping the frontiers of corporate social impact through research, field insights, and practitioner perspectives.
Repeated volunteer experiences give people more to reflect on, but returning alone does not guarantee change. Explore how the next Brief can build on the last Debrief, with interactive diagrams and a preparation worksheet.
For twenty-five years, brands got good at getting attention. A new layer has entered the buying process. It does not experience prestige the way humans do. What CSR teams need to know about the shift from the attention economy to the interpretation economy, why outputs are not evidence, and what to do about it.
A 2019 ERP study complicates the standard narrative about power and empathy. High-power participants show amplified rather than reduced sensory processing. The study points to orientation as the issue. Includes RW Institute's working model of the Brief, the distress-compassion circuit distinction, and the dosage problem.
A RW Institute article package on interrupting othering and designing encounters that restore mutual recognition across difference.
A RW Institute article package on habit formation, identity, cognitive distortions, and practical behavior-change strategies.
Why volunteer experiences do not become transformative on their own, and what changes when the Brief, the live facilitation, and the Debrief are designed as one system.