At HIP we believe in working on our Social Fitness through daily workouts. Just as a person exercises to condition their muscles and develop muscle memory, a person can do regular Social Fitness workouts to prepare themselves to act courageously, wisely, and compassionately in challenging social situations. Similar to an exercise routine, the weekly challenges will cover [...]

Here at HIP we believe in working on our Social Fitness through daily workouts. Just as a person exercises to condition their muscles and develop muscle memory, a person can do regular Social Fitness workouts to prepare themselves to act courageously, wisely, and compassionately in challenging social situations. Similar to an exercise routine, the weekly challenges will [...]

Here at HIP we believe in working on our Social Fitness through daily workouts. Just as a person exercises to condition their muscles and develop muscle memory, a person can do regular Social Fitness workouts to prepare themselves to act courageously, wisely, and compassionately in challenging social situations. Starting the first week in January 2012, every Monday [...]

HIP Corporate is looking for your stories of everyday heroism in the workplace! We invite to share a time when someone at work took a risk and stood up for you, a colleague or larger team for what they believed was right. Please include what it meant to you, and how it might have changed the [...]

Václav Havel, esteemed HIP Trustee and dear friend, has sadly passed away on Sunday, December 18, 2011. Václav Havel: A Tribute by Dr. Zimbardo Václav Havel was a philosopher and statesman, but in the first place a heroic leader in a world where most people either did nothing to protest injustices and inhumanity, or were profiting from [...]

Books make great gifts for the holidays and beyond. Here are nearly 200 from The HIP List on Amazon guaranteed to spark your heroic imagination, incite your passions & change your mind.   –A Call to Heroism: Renewing America’s Vision of Greatness by Peter Hazen Gibbon –A Century Of Heroes by Douglas R. Chambers –A New [...]

Visual highlights of Dr. Zimbardo’s many 2011 adventures!  

The Heroic Imagination Project invites you to make an artistic statement in the service of the heroic imagination. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Below [...]

Shortly after 5:00 AM on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 22-year-old Keenia Williams, an African American resident of San Francisco, was driving south on Highway 101 with her 5-year-old daughter, Ja’niyh. Keenia was taking her to school, on her way to a temporary job. Suddenly she saw a dramatic accident unfold in the rear-view mirror: two [...]

The Heroic Imagination Project would like to express our gratitude to the HIP Community for your support and guidance in 2011. As we enter the holiday season and the year comes to a close and you are planning for your end-of-year giving, we would like to ask that you consider our organization. We would be [...]