Joey Crotty, Author at Compassion Games International

Compassion in Prison Year Two: Let Them Eat Cake!

by Joey Crotty | Oct 12, 2014 | For Others, For Self, Teams, Unity Games, Ways to Play

The following article was written by Compassion Games Head Coach Sande Hart -- Energies and attitudes are high at the California Institute of Women’s (CIW) 2nd Annual Compassion Games. Last year, Rev. Shayna Lester, a volunteer chaplain, first heard about the Compassion Games at a SARAH meeting (a women’s interfaith group that I co-founded) and knew this belonged at the women’s prison where she leads a Jewish learning group. After getting the approval from the warden, she quickly convened a...

A Compassionate Response to Ebola

by Joey Crotty | Oct 7, 2014 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, For Others, Giving Games, Partners, Teams

Ebola is certainly in the news and everyone is having to respond to this terrifying threat. The 2014 Compassion Games team known as “Fearless” are living up to their name. After hearing about a fundraising effort on The Shift Network’s Summer of Peace program, they decided to raise funds to support education and outreach in response to the recent Ebola breakout in West Africa. The "Alliance for the Earth" initiative is a part of the Liberia Peacebuilding Project, an organization helping the...

2014 Leaderboard Results!

by Joey Crotty | Sep 29, 2014 | Compassion Reports, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Leagues, Partners, Uncategorized, Unity Games

Ta Da!! We have updated the 2014 Leaderboard with the numbers for this years games. We've gone through every report that was submitted for every day of the Games. Although the whole spirit of the Compassion Games is playful and fun, we take your efforts to report on your acts of compassion seriously. Of course, whoever played in the games and did or didn't report was a winner, and with that said let's get into the numbers. When accountants deliver "the numbers" they usually also prepare a...

We don’t know where we are going but we know we are on our way

by Joey Crotty | Sep 28, 2014 | Compassion Reports, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Unity Games, Ways to Play

”We don’t know where we are going, but we know we are on our way,” answered Reverend Gerald Durley of Providence Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA when asked “where is this compassion movement going?” While we don’t know where we are going, we know it’s good, we know it’s safe, and we know we are suppose to be headed there. So, we keep on keep’n on and do it with great love, and lots of fun. And, what’s more, is we have a map to get there! However, like a conventional map, where the lines are...

Sun-Up Our Sanctuaries! The Compassion Games Solar Challenge

by Joey Crotty | Sep 18, 2014 | Earth Week, Sun Up Our Sanctuaries, Ways to Play

A truly unfathomable amount of energy showers down on us freely at every moment of our lives, granting life to you, me, and every living creature on this planet. The giving star, our Sun, is not just the symbol of hope, light, and spirit in every world religion. It is - in the face of our addiction to fossil fuels - our most promising path toward a just and sustainable future for ourselves and our children. If all flora on Earth can harness this essential cosmological power source, then why...

Currency of the Heart: Coins of Compassion in Compassionate Schools

by Joey Crotty | Sep 15, 2014 | Education - Schools, Kindness Class, Random Acts of Compassion, Stories of Compassion, Unity Games, Ways to Play

(Above art, "Pocket Change", and the piece below, are by the amazing group 6 Degrees of Creativity who are making this magnificent art for the Compassion Games.) This week marks the beginning of North Thurston County in Washington state Public School District’s participation in the Compassion Games as part of the "Compassionate Schools Movement", and they aren’t alone. This year, over 50 schools have committed themselves to participating in the Compassion Games as a way to bring compassion and...

Compassion for Mother Earth: Unprecedented Alliance Protects the Salish Sea

by Joey Crotty | Sep 14, 2014 | Earth Week, Partners, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

All life is interconnected: birthed from the same great beginning of impossible origins, you, everyone you know, and everything you’ve ever loved or experienced was forged in the living hearts of dying stars. Many of our ancient ancestors knew this to be the fundamental truth of all existence, the delicate balance and interdependent nature of all life, and lived their lives in this wisdom. Though we have gained much from our technological and scientific advances in modern times, this knowledge...

Let the Games Begin!

by Joey Crotty | Sep 12, 2014 | Unity Games, Ways to Play

By Brad Volz The Compassion Games are back! If you’ve been following my blog for a while, then you may recall that I dedicated 2014 to compassion and learning to be more self loving. Here’s the post where I stated my intentions along with 11 tips for thriving. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~ Leo Buscaglia I can attest to the truth...

Grandma Turner’s Lessons

by Joey Crotty | Jun 4, 2014 | Uncategorized

By the time I came along my grandparents had already passed from this life, but I was graced with numerous “adopted” grandparents along my path to adulthood. The one I learned the most from was my best friend Kim’s grandmother, Grandma Turner. Grandma Turner lived across the water in the town of Suquamish in a tiny house on the beach. Because we were rebellious teenagers, our parents were only too happy to drive us down to the ferry terminal in Seattle and send us off for the weekend. I...

Day Eleven: Receiving and Radiating Compassion

by Joey Crotty | Sep 21, 2013 | Contemplations for Compassion

“God has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he pours out, compassion in the world, compassion in the world. His are the hands, blessing me now. All praise to the One. Ring the bells that can still ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.” - Anthem, by Leonard Cohen Through this week’s series of Contemplations for Compassion for All Beings, we have learned that...

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