Ways to Play
SunUp Our Sanctuaries
Protect the Sacred Solar Challenge Point of the Game: To Protect the Sacred by getting off of fossil fuels and making the switch to 100% clean and renewal energy for all people and all purposes as quickly as possibly. To start this necessary process in the places we consider Sacred. For example, the Silicon Valley Inter-Religious Council (SiViC) has successfully taken up the solar challenge on June 26th, 2015. Here was a statement from when they successfully switched to renewable...
Story Mapping Challenge
Point of the Game: In celebration of the Earth, and our connection to all life, we invite you to play the Love This Place Story Mapping Challenge! The Story Mapping Challenge is remarkably simple and rewarding, and can be played on any device. Let’s awaken our innate biophilia, or “love of life”, in people around the world so that we can turn our love for these places into effectively caring for them! Rules of the Game: To play, take a photo of a place that you love in the natural world, and...
Challenge Others to Play!
Sharing Compassion With Others Brings Compassion to Life Let's Play Together So Everyone Wins! The point of Challenge Others to Play! is to recruit more Agents of Compassion that are members of the International Kindness Team (IKT) who play in the Compassion Games and invite their friends to play as well. How to Play in Two Simple Steps! Sign Up and Invite Your Friends Using the form below you can sign yourself up and become a member of the International Kindness Team (if you have already...
Compassion Today App
Compassion Today! is a mobile app that inspires us to practice compassion in our daily lives. Through simple reflection exercises, daily mindfulness reminders, inspiring quotes and more, Compassion Today! can aid you on your daily journey to live into your most compassionate self! Use the Compassion Report Map to reflect and share your experiences to inspire others during the Annual Compassion Games, or during any time of the year! ________ The app is free and available for most tablets and...
Service Projects
Point of the Game: Organized Service Projects are the planned expressions of compassion that address the needs of a community. Service Projects bring people of diverse backgrounds together to give back to the world, whether this is locally or to a global cause. Service Projects are a primary force of good in the Compassion Games, the effects of which ripple out to communities everywhere by inspiring us all what is possible when we come together to bring compassion to life. Rules of the Game:...
Random Acts of Kindness
Point of the Game: Random Acts of Kindness are selfless acts performed by a person or a group of people who desire to help others. Those who play the game will learn about kindness and compassion through practice. Rules of the Game: You can perform random acts of compassion for those you know, those you don’t, the Earth, or for yourself. Distinct from Service Projects, these acts can be spontaneous! Be mindful and put your radar out there to find natural opportunities to be kind to others....
Drive With Compassion
Point of the game: Take steps to be more mindful about your driving, thus reducing the stress on yourself and others as you get from one place to another! Rules of action: Make a pledge to be more compassionate in your driving and to be attentive to compassionate actions by others! (See Rules of Strategy for concrete ways to fulfull your pledge). Share your pledge to Drive with Compassion on social media. Post your experiences and reflection from Drive With Compassion on the Compassion Report...
Compassion Relays (Self-Organized)
Point of the Game: The Compassion Relays connect the world through a living chain of compassion! The point of this game is to spread the light of compassion by discovering, inspiring and sharing the power of compassionate action in everyday life. The Torch is a symbol of the Relays, and is not something physical. Your decision to join the Relays symbolically represents receiving the Torch yourself, with the commitment to pass its light on to others! The Relays also herald and build...
Compassion All-Stars
Point of the Game: The aim of this game is to call attention to the compassion around us, both to celebrate its practitioners and to open our eyes to compassion’s power and diverse expressions. All-Stars are people who never tire in making us feel welcome and whole, who help make our communities and lives better in small but significant ways. They could be the grandmother on the corner who makes cookies for children on their birthdays, the bus driver who sings out stops for their riders, or an...