{"id":421,"date":"2022-12-13T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:52","slug":"chasing-we-ness-cultivating-empathy-and-leadership-in-a-polarized-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/chasing-we-ness-cultivating-empathy-and-leadership-in-a-polarized-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing We-ness: Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chasing We-ness: Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/files\/Marsiglio_Jacket_6818-FINAL-200x274.jpg\" width=\"129\" height=\"182\"> In an increasingly polarized world, <em>Chasing We-ness<\/em> champions ideas for cultivating the ability to work with others in a way that celebrates our shared humanity. As humans, we embrace our individuality, yet we chase the comfort and sense of purpose that comes from being part of a group. Especially timely given our polarized world, <em>Chasing We-ness<\/em> examines how social media, AI, new leadership styles, and other modern developments affect our state of we ness. It illuminates how our contemporary identities find expression in both progressive and conservative social movements that foster a sense of we-ness. Embracing the reality that \u201cwe\u2019re all in this together,\u201d the book interrogates our efforts to achieve a state of we-ness that rejects hate, social injustice, and autocratic agendas in the twenty-first century. This book explores why, how, and with what effect we build we-ness into our lives in both healthy and destructive ways. William Marsiglio draws on his expertise as a leading sociologist to explore the motivational forces that inspire a sense of group belonging in intimate groups, civic organizations, thought communities, sports and leisure activities, and work. Promoting initiatives that cultivate mindfulness, empathy, altruism, and leadership, <em>Chasing We-ness<\/em> proposes essential life skills to empower us, reduce social divisions, strengthen the social fabric, and uplift our spirits as global citizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/chasing-we-ness-book-information\/\">Return to book main page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}