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Champion of Compassion Spotlight: The Fetzer Institute

Champion of Compassion Spotlight: The Fetzer Institute

Whether we’re aware of it or not, we are deeply interdependent and interconnected. What would it be like to live that way—as if our borders (personal and otherwise) extended beyond our body, neighborhood, state, or nation, spilling into each other as a river into the sea? How might we move beyond our self-imposed borders to build and deepen authentic, sustainable connections? We offer these ideas and invite you to join us in this practice of unity: – Be friendly and get to know people –...

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Champion of Compassion Spotlight: Standing Rock 7th Generation Runners

Champion of Compassion Spotlight: Standing Rock 7th Generation Runners

The Global Compassion Torch is in the hands of Champions of Hope and Earth Protectors. We welcome the Arrival of Ms. Bobbi Jean Three Legs, Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Chris Walton and other youth runners from the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation, and local 7th Generation Runners as they run across the Golden Gate Bridge in the 7th Generation Inaugural Wopida Run and Ceremony today. This is available from the live stream on Compassion Games FB...

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Champion of Compassion Spotlight: The Ali Center

Champion of Compassion Spotlight: The Ali Center

We just completed an incredible Global Coopetition with Muhammad Ali Center in January called MLK & ALI Games Five Days of Courageous Service.  We are incredibly moved by all the light that is shed on the legacy of the Greatest Muhammad Ali and the constant catalyst this Center is in moving many into action. Mr. Ali's life and way of being in the world was about love, compassion, and interfaith. We would like to pass the torch of compassion today to the Ali Center. Thank you for lifting...

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Champion of Compassion Spotlight: Festival of Faiths

Champion of Compassion Spotlight: Festival of Faiths

Today we shine a light on the powerful interfaith center in Louisville, Kentucky and the home of the Annual Festival of Faiths. We proudly pass the Global Compassion Torch on this third day of World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition. A nationally acclaimed annual interfaith event of music, poetry, film, art and dialogue with internationally renowned spiritual leaders, thinkers, and practitioners. The festival programming honors the union between thinking globally and acting locally. The...

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Champion of Compassion Spotlight: Sande Hart with The Women and Girls Sector of the Charter for Compassion

Champion of Compassion Spotlight: Sande Hart with The Women and Girls Sector of the Charter for Compassion

We are thrilled to begin the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition today with the Global Compassion Torch in Sande Hart's hands representing The Charter For Compassion Women And Girls Sector. Sande Hart holds the spirit of interfaith, love, compassion and action around the world. He life has many profound stories in inclusive community. Here is one inspiring story from Sande Hart that shaped her life into being a significant leader of compassion, interfaith, and build community to empower...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Agape Spiritual Center

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Agape Spiritual Center

Compassion Games is thrilled to include the AGAPE International Spiritual Center as a participant in the Global Giving Games Compassion Relay.  The Compassion Games are in total alignment with the Center’s Vision to “take a stand for love, for peace, for being a beneficial presence on the planet.”   In recognition of the Center’s commitment to support that “every person be inspired to cultivate a heart of love as wide as the world,” we acknowledge and recognize the AGAPE International...

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Final Champion Spotlight: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and All Champions

Final Champion Spotlight: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and All Champions

For Day 12, the final day of the Giving Games, we are profoundly humbled to pass the Compassion Torch from Gary Zukav, Linda Francis, and Seat of the Soul Institute to the honorable Oceti Sakowin, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The last 11 days have been a remarkable journey, made up of one act of compassion and generosity to the next from players and teams around the world, as well as from one Champion of Compassion, accepting the light of the Compassion Torch, to the next. Youth, Interfaith...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Gary Zukav and Seat of the Soul Institute

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Gary Zukav and Seat of the Soul Institute

For Day 11 of the Giving Games, we are absolutely delighted to pass the Compassion Torch from the Center for Global Education to none other than Gary Zukav, his wife Linda Francis, and their Seat of the Soul Institute! Gary Zukav is an extraordinary human being, to say the least. He is the author of four consecutive New York Times National Bestsellers, and has appeared on Oprah over 35 times, more than any other guest in the show’s history. Oprah has admitted that she keeps a copy of Gary’s...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Terry Godwaldt and the Centre for Global Education

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Terry Godwaldt and the Centre for Global Education

For Day 10 of the Giving Games, we are absolutely delighted to pass the Compassion Torch from Dr. Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots to the incredible Terry Godwaldt and his Center for Global Education in Edmonton, Canada. The Centre for Global Education’s (TCGE) mission is to educate 21st Century students for a 21st Century world. TCGE achieves this by providing global learning opportunities, enhanced through connective power of technology, and guided by research that is grounded as well...

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Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Dr. Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots

Giving Games Champion Spotlight: Dr. Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots

For Day 9 of the Giving Games, we are overjoyed to pass the Compassion Torch from Compassionate Louisville to Roots and Shoots, the youth-led community action organization inspired by the work and guidance of Dr. Jane Goodall! Roots are the foundation of life, plants and human alike. And shoots are these seemingly weak, hopeless expression of life who, in their search for the light of the sun, are capable of breaking right through a brick wall to achieve their purpose! This is how Dr. Jane...

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