Stories of Compassion Archives - Compassion Games International

Highlights for Earth Week from Around the World!

by Joey Crotty | May 6, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

Greetings Compassionistas of Planet Earth! We are proud to report that over 30 teams from 4 continents inspired thousands of people to come together, acting in ways that affirm our love and compassion for the Earth and all her inhabitants. This awakening biophilia, or “love of life”, is transforming the world! We are still in the process of gathering the reflection reports on the Compassion Mapand have set a “liveline” (deadline) on the Scoreboard for Friday, May 8th. If you participated in...

Love of Salish Sea Ignites Groundswell Opposition to Shell’s Arctic Drills in Seattle During Earth Week

by Joey Crotty | Apr 24, 2015 | Earth Week, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

A message from Earth Day of a possible future: "It is on this day, this remarkable day, we give thanks to our ancestors. In the darkest time of our species’ history they faced a profound challenge. They faced themselves. It is the very fact that we are here, alive today in abundance and safety, surrounded by our kin in this unfolding story of life, that we know they were mindful of our coming. We give our deepest thanks that they saw past the persuasions of an old and broken worldview, that...

Players of Earth Week & Compassion as the Path to Justice and the American Dream

by Joey Crotty | Apr 18, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Stories of Compassion

As we're getting ready for the inaugural Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week coopetition, from April 18 through April 26, we are excited to introduce some of the “players” that will be participating. This is an extremely diverse group including teams from Portugal, Peru, United Kingdom, Italy, and cities in the United States and Canada including Detroit, Michigan, Syracuse, New York and Seattle, Washington. Interfaith Works is the team in Syracuse, New York that participated in the February...

Love The Hell Out of Metro Detroit: From the Blame-Shame Game to the Compassion Games

by Joey Crotty | Apr 16, 2015 | Cities - Mayors, Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Harmony Week, Stories of Compassion

In the early sixties, in the thick of the Civil Rights movement, at the Voters Rights office in Alabama, Andrew Young was about to step outside into the parking lot to meet members of the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Young, appointed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to head the voters rights effort, and has since gone on to become Mayor of Atlanta, US Congressman, and Ambassador to the United Nations, received a call thatthe KKK were coming and that he might want to carry a gun. As he headed out the door...

Are You a Biophiliac? Discover Nature’s Gifts of Awe, Longevity, and Compassion!

by Joey Crotty | Apr 1, 2015 | Earth Week, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Stories of Compassion

Collaboratively Written by Leadership Team Member Lesa R. Walker, MD, MPH& Compassion Games Storyteller Joey Crotty Are you a "Biophiliac"? If you are reading this and happen to be human, you probably are. The Compassion Games Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week coopetition is approaching quickly (April 18-26) with the goal to ignite and amplify compassionate action around the world to protect and celebrate our home, the Earth. At the Compassion Games Heartquarters we often say that...

Solving Wicked Problems with the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest

by JonRamer | Feb 18, 2015 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Harmony Week, Random Acts of Compassion, Service Projecs, Stories of Compassion, Sun Up Our Sanctuaries, Ways to Play

(Header Image: "New Pioneers" from Mark Hensen) At a time when religiously motivated violence seems to be more horrific and terrifying than ever, what would it take to transition our world to one of interfaith harmony and peace? It may seem pollyanna to wonder and idealistic to even ask if such a thing is possible. In a world permeated with intolerance and acts of hatred in the name of religion, how could we come to be in peace and harmony with one another? What would that take? A 21st century...

Kites for Peace

by Joey Crotty | Nov 18, 2014 | For Others, For Self, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play

November 18th -December 7th Fly a kite today for Peace! Kites for Peace was inspired by the 13,000 kites that children of Gaza flew in 2011 to break a Guiness World Record of simultaneous kite flying. What started out as a creative response to the death of children in Gaza and Israel during the Israel-Hamas war last July 2014 has blossomed into an emerging global action creating spaces for children’s voices to be heard through simple child-inclusive compassion circles in schools and...

Mayor of Compassionville!

by JonRamer | Nov 5, 2014 | Cities - Mayors, Stories of Compassion, Unity Games, Ways to Play

We first met Nashville’s Dina Capitani while in Louisville to celebrate their 1 Year Anniversary of becoming a Compassionate City. We were, simply put, in absolute awe of her spirited determination and fierce commitment to prove that Nashville was the most compassionate place on Earth. We quickly learned not to underestimate Dina’s sweet disposition and gentle spirit; she is on a clear mission to convince everyone around her why the Compassion movement is so critically needed in her town....

Silicon Valley Interreligious Council and Carry the Vision Bring the Compassion Games to Silicon Valley

by JonRamer | Oct 29, 2014 | Compassion Reports, Earth Week, Faith and Interfaith, For Others, Harmony Week, Random Acts of Compassion, Service Projecs, Stories of Compassion, Sun Up Our Sanctuaries, Ways to Play

We shall be a mighty kindness. - Rumi (and the Carry the Vision conference brochure) I was invited to introduce and help launch the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest at the Carry the Vision 9th Community in Compassion Conference that took place in Silicon Valley on October 19th 2014. It was amazing! Carry the Vision Executive Director, Shelly Swan and her team took great care of me and all the participants who gathered that Sunday to “awaken the heart of compassion” the theme for the...

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...

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