# Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion

The term "compassion" -- typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy -- has fallen out of touch with reality. At a special TEDPrize@UN, journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2011
- Runtime: 15 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Religion
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/KristaTippett_2010Z)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/KristaTippett_2010Z?play=1)