The Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest is a co-founder of SINE. SINE stands for the Synergized Impact Network Exchange. SINE is a learning community and alliance of members that exists to create unprecedented, unified action. SINE Members commit to empowering each other through cooperative, collaborative, and co-creative activities, events, and inspired play. Members cooperate with each other and support each other in their own work. Members collaborate by discovering how their work...
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The Power of Love and Compassion to Stop the Violence and Start the Healing
Baltimore’s riots this week have highlighted the growing unrest and injustices across America. Many are being forced to rethink assumptions we've made about race, power, civility, and compassion. We seem to have forgotten concepts like fairness and justice as a nation. Without this moral compass to guide us, what’s left? As video after video surfaces of young black males being brutally treated by police, it makes us wonder if racial discrimination and police brutality can now be tolerated in...
Compassion in Prison Year Two: Let Them Eat Cake!
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
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...
The Leaderboard: Measuring Our Compassion in Action
“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.” ~Unknown The Compassion Games maintains a Leaderboard where everyone can see the results of what each team has reported during the games. We count the number of reports, number of volunteers, hours of service, dollars raised for local causes, and the number of people served. The reports are submitted to the Compassion Report Map and then tallied and put on the leaderboard. Does this mean...
Compassionate Silicon Valley: The Heart of Innovation and the “Spiritual Element”
Silicon Valley is known as a hotbed of innovation. A fiercely competitive environment, it is a place in which discovering and promoting the next big thing is everything. Could it be that “compassion in action” is the next big thing? As it turns out, one of the most inspiring and effective teams in the 2014 Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest is Compassionate Silicon Valley. To participate in this global “co-opetition” they have amassed a team that includes more than 20 affiliated...
The 2014 Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest – Day Six of Eleven
Today marks Day Six of the 11 day annual “co-opetition” we call the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. The games are a chance for all of us to engage in fun and creative ways that will touch countless numbers of people and enrich our own lives in the process. It is also a chance to care for our Mother Earth and to realize that compassion is something that affects all living things. Just 2 years ago, only two teams played in what was the first Compassion Games ever, and last year 19...
Leslie’s Invitation to Join the Compassion Games
Dear Friends and Family, Come play the Compassion Games with me! I'm an organizer 'cos I'm a big fan of the whole idea of people and teams around the world competing in "survival of the kindest" games for good every year. By doing good as part of the Compassion Games, we can do more good together and we all win! Starting TODAY September 11 through September 21st, thousands of individuals and more than 150 teams are making our communities safer, kinder, more just and compassionate places to...
Kamloops, British Columbia – A Bright Shining Compassion Star
There's good news coming out of the city of Kamloops in British Columbia. It's the story of a Compassion All-Star Daphane Nelson who took a stand to give the gift of peace and compassion to her city. Daphane Nelson heard about the Compassion Games through her mom. She checked it out and saw this as a way to recognize all the good work happening in her community. Take a look at all the events they have planned for the Compassion Games. Daphane honors her community and the "amazingness" already...