For the Earth Archives - Compassion Games International

Global Champions of Compassion Kickoff a “Compassion Relay”

by Joey Crotty | Nov 7, 2016 | Compassion Relay, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Giving Games

Honors Youth, Indigenous, Interfaith Leadership on Climate Action FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Opening Ceremony COP22 Climate Change Conference, Marrakesh, Morocco November 7, 2016 - A "Global Compassion Relay" with “Champions of Compassion” was lit and now a virtual “Compassion Torch” will be passed highlighting the many ways that unprecedented, unified compassionate action unites and gives life to our communities and planet. The Global Compassion Relay and the Global Compassion Torch will bring...

Celebrate the Unbelievable Final Results of the 2016 Global Unity Games

by Joey Crotty | Oct 17, 2016 | Compassion Reports, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Unity Games

Dear Agents of Compassion, It's easy to believe that we are living in a time of a "great divide". It is also true that we live in a time of “global connections”. There are over one billion people active on Facebook alone. Can we use this unprecedented connectivity to heal the divides between us and build bridges to Global Unity? We set out to play the Global Unity Compassion Games to explore and discover what's needed to create Global Unity and here's what we found out. The Global Unity Games...

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...

The Love This Place! Story Mapping Challenge: Crowdsourcing Compassion for Mother Earth

by Joey Crotty | Apr 21, 2015 | Earth Week, For Self, For the Earth, Ways to Play

Announcing the "Love This Place! Story Mapping Challenge" for Serve the Earth Week! In celebration of the Earth and our connection to all life, we invite you to play with us starting now and through the end of Earth Week in the Compassion Games “Love This Place! Story Mapping Challenge!". Join us as we crowdsource our love for the Earth and turn it into compassionate action for the benefit of all living beings! Here is how the Story Mapping Challenge works: Sit for a moment and reflect on a...

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...

An Interfaith Pep Talk to Overcome the Impossible

by Joey Crotty | Jan 19, 2015 | Faith and Interfaith, For Others, For Self, For the Earth, Harmony Week, Sun Up Our Sanctuaries, Ways to Play

A Rallying Call for World Interfaith Harmony It’s well-known that for untold eons, human beings have fought each other in the name of their God or gods. But there is more to this story… As historian and TED Prize Winner Karen Armstrong points out, wars are and have always been political and economic in nature, used to gain land, resources, and power. Why, then, do people tend to blame religion for wars? Armstrong writes that religious ideologies were often reshaped by political and economic...

Compassion Games to Protect and Restore the Sacredness of Mother Earth

by JonRamer | Nov 11, 2014 | Earth Week, For the Earth, Sun Up Our Sanctuaries, Ways to Play

by Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr., Chairperson, Compassion Games International, Jon Ramer Founder Compassion Games International, Joey Crotty, Writer and Editor At the root of all social, economic, political, psychological and spiritual ills - both historically and presently - are the false beliefs that human beings are separate from one another, and that we are separate from our Mother Earth. Dispelling such false beliefs, current scientific research upholds the sacred truth of our...

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