by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth | "Tell A Story", Alyssa Piraino, Austin Willaims, compassion games, compassionate action, Kumar Nessenbaum, Stories of Compassion, What's Good 206, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good 206 It was a chance encounter with a homeless man that that led University of Washington student Daniel Nguyen to start Operation Compassion last year. It began when an apparently homeless man, a regular Daniel had seen for weeks,...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, Wisdom at Work | compassion games, compassionate action, Joel and Michelle Levey, Stories of Compassion
By Joel and Michelle Levey Some years ago, we were invited to offer a workshop on meditation and medicine for the faculty of University of Washington Medical School. Nearly 70 physicians attended and stayed for the whole five-hour workshop. We were so touched by...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 12, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play | compassionate action, drug addiction, homeless, Stories of Compassion
By Amber Joy Terry was not a complainer. He slept outside, did odd jobs for several Fremont businesses and was always willing to help with anything. He came into ROAR, a day center for homeless men, almost daily, for a sack lunch. He would ask if he could do anything...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 11, 2012 | Compassionate Seattle, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play | "random acts of compassion", Charter for Compassion, compassion, compassion games, Compassionate Seattle, meditation, Stories of Compassion, yoga
Submitted by Dee Williams Many people are studying compassion in order to introduce it into schools and other places. Some say it should be taught. Others have won awards for their programs that teach about compassion. Cities are touted as being the most...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 9, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206 | "Do Good", "Tell A Story", "Volunteer", community project, compassion games, compassionate action, compassionate action projects, solutions, Stories of Compassion, United Way Day of Caring, Youth
Submitted by What’s Good ‘206’? Some painted walls, others cleaned a preschool inside and out. Others pulled yard cleanup duty. All told, there were more than 12,000 of them — people who came out on Sept. 21, United Way of King County’s...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 7, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play | compassion, compassionate action, Stories of Compassion
Once upon a time there was a dog named Raider… This is the story of how Raider’s needs were met by the actions of Circle Drive, a compassionate neighborhood in Lake Forest Park, as told in the emails that circulated via our Resource Line: Please help find this...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 2, 2012 | Education - Schools, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play | "random acts of compassion", compassion, kindness, solutions, Stories of Compassion
By Joel Levey We were touched when a couple of our friends/students offered to come over and help us trim a tree with vines that was hanging dangerously over our neighbors’ power lines. They brought over their ladders and saws, we shared some chocolate and...
by Joey Crotty | Oct 2, 2012 | Compassionate Action Network International, Education - Schools, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play | Companis, election, Stories of Compassion
By Gary Davis Our society is fascinated by entertainers, sports heroes and lawbreakers. Glance at the “most read” list on most any online news site and you’ll find it overwhelmingly populated with articles that are variations on those themes. This isn’t a new trend....
by JonRamer | Oct 1, 2012 | Faith and Interfaith, Stories of Compassion | compassion games, Compassionate Action Network International, global citizens, immigrants, refugees, Stories of Compassion, United Way
Story and photos by Tara Clark After living in a small, remote village called Lesotho, in southern Africa, as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1990s, I continued to travel off the beaten path to far corners of the world. My paths led to Haiti, the South Sudan, Laos,...
by JonRamer | Sep 9, 2012 | Faith and Interfaith, Stories of Compassion, Youth | "Seattle police officers", arrests, compassion games, compassionate action, police, seattle, Stories of Compassion, Youth
Here is a story of compassion that is so needed at this time as we support our police force to think differently about how they relate to their fellow citizens. Imagine if it was your job to arrest people. How would you relate to the people you’re arresting?...