How to Enter the Compassion Games:
A Guide to Playing for Shared Impact
What are the Compassion Games?
The Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest are a global invitation to play for a more compassionate, just, and regenerative world.
They turn compassion into action by inviting people, teams, organizations, communities, and networks to practice compassion, serve others, play together, and share what they are learning.
The Games are not about competing against each other. They are about co-opetition: challenging ourselves and one another to see who can work together most effectively for the good of all life.
The question at the heart of the Games is simple:
What becomes possible when we play together for outcomes we truly care about?
Why do they matter now?
The Compassion Games matter now because humanity is facing a crisis of separation — from one another, from Mother Earth, from future generations, and from the deeper wisdom of life.
At the same time, people everywhere are looking for meaningful ways to respond. Many want to help, but they need a clear invitation, a shared framework, and a way to act with others.
The Games offer a way to move from concern to contribution, from isolation to participation, and from good intentions to shared impact.
Between the June Solstice and September 27, we have a 99-day arc to practice a new way to win:
not by defeating others, but by caring for one another, restoring our communities, and serving all life.
How do I enter?
You enter by choosing a doorway.
You can begin with the path that best fits who you are, what you care about, and how you are ready to participate.
- You might enter as an individual who wants to practice compassion in daily life.
- You might enter as someone who wants to serve a person, place, cause, or community.
- You might enter as part of a team, network, coalition, organization, or community ready to play together for shared impact.
- You might enter as a storyteller, promoter, funder, journalist, or ally who wants to help spread the story.
The first step is to join One World, visit the Compassion Games space, and follow the Start Here pathway. From there, you can learn the story, choose how you want to play, connect with others, and begin.
How do I play?
You play by turning compassion into action.
There are many ways to play, but they all begin with caring about something real:
yourself, your loved ones, your community, strangers, systems, future generations, Mother Earth, or all life.
- You can play by practicing compassion each day.
- You can play by serving where help is needed.
- You can play by joining or forming a team.
- You can play by sharing stories, videos, reflections, and acts of compassion.
- You can play by reporting what happened so the collective impact can be seen.
The Games are designed so every act matters. A small act of kindness, a community project, a service campaign, a ceremony, a team challenge, a story of healing, or a coordinated effort across many organizations can all become part of the field of play.
To play is to ask:
What act of compassion can I take today, and how can that act become part of something larger?
How do we play together?
We play together by forming teams, teams of teams, and organizing circles around shared outcomes.
Playing together begins when people discover that they care about the same possibility. That possibility might be a healthier neighborhood, a stronger community, a more peaceful school, a restored watershed, a more compassionate organization, or a global wave of action for Mother Earth.
A team can choose an outcome it wants to help make real by September 27. A network or coalition can convene a team of teams. Together, they can create a shared impact statement, coordinate actions, support one another, tell the story, and report what happened.
Playing together transforms self-interest into common interest. Each person or organization brings what they care about, and through the Games, those interests become aligned around a collective win.
The guiding question is:
What can we accomplish together that none of us could accomplish alone?
How do we report what happened?
We report what happened by sharing our acts of compassion, outcomes, stories, reflections, and evidence of impact.
Reporting is not just paperwork. It is how the Games become visible. It is how small acts become part of a larger pattern. It is how we learn what is working, honor what people are doing, and show the world what compassion in action looks like.
Participants and teams can report acts of service, practices completed, people reached, places cared for, partnerships formed, stories gathered, and results achieved.
These reports can feed into a public dashboard, stories of impact, social posts, videos, articles, and the larger Book of Precious Moments.
The guiding question is:
What happened because we played, and what can others learn from it?
How do we help spread the story?
We spread the story by sharing the invitation, the videos, the clips, the articles, the playlists, the landing pages, the social posts, the emails, and the stories of impact.
- Some people will spread the story by posting on LinkedIn or other social channels.
- Some will invite their networks by email.
- Some will share YouTube videos and clips.
- Some will write about the Games.
- Some will bring the invitation to partners, funders, organizations, schools, communities, faith groups, or media contacts.
- Some will simply tell someone, “This is something worth being part of.”
The goal is to make it easy for every ally to become a messenger.
The story we are spreading is not only that the Compassion Games exist. The deeper story is that another way of being human together is possible — and people can join it now.
The guiding question is:
Who needs to hear this invitation, and what is the clearest way to share it with them?
How do we create shared impact by September 27?
We create shared impact by choosing outcomes organizing teams coordinating action, reporting results, and telling the story together.
September 27 gives us a meaningful horizon. It creates a shared timeframe for commitment, action, reflection, and celebration.
Shared impact begins with a clear intention:
By September 27, what do we want to help make real?
From there, each team or team of teams can define its own collective win. That win may include measurable results, such as people engaged, meals served, trees planted, events hosted, funds raised, stories collected, or communities activated.
It may also include possibilities of being, such as greater trust, belonging, courage, peace, compassion, resilience, or coherence.
Both matter.
The Compassion Games invite us to honor inner change and outer action, personal transformation and measurable results, local service and global participation.
By September 27, the question is not only, “How many acts of compassion happened?”
The deeper question is:
What changed because we chose to play together?
That is the promise of the Games: to help people move from inspiration to action, from action to shared impact, and from shared impact to a new story of what humanity can become.