2012 Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest
As you know, the goal of Compassionate Seattle is to mobilize community resources to make Seattle truly a City of Compassion by the year 2020. The recent gun violence in Seattle only serves to heighten the challenges we face and our need to be engaged citizens; people with the vision and the power to collaborate effectively to create a connected and caring community.
We know you’re an advocate for the greater good and for that reason we invite you to get involved in the 2012 Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest.
The purpose of the Compassion Games is to challenge and inspire each other to make our community a safer, kinder and better place to live.
Many studies show that there are two major determinants of our local safety: one is how many neighbors we know by name, the other is how often we are present and associated in public—outside our houses. The Compassion Games gives us a chance to get to know our neighbors and multiply the connections and associations in our community.
We need your insight and leadership to help make this successful. We are partnering with the United Way of King County, King County Executive Dow Constantine, the City of Seattle, Seattle Center, and many other organizations and we are hoping to add you and your organization to the growing list of partners. Please comment below and let us know what you think!
The 2012 Compassion Games extends the September 21st United Way Day of Caring to thirty days of compassionate civic action as part of the Next Fifty Civic Action month.
Here is a link to the FAQ for more details about the 2012 Compassion Games https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YjPw91g-NagyQ3kD4_GAw8z-SzfEf2t...
Let’s connect this community-wide collaboration to the work you are already doing and define how your participation can benefit the community, your organization, and yourself.
Working together we can make our community safer, healthier, wiser, richer, and a much better place to raise our families and call home.
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Comment by David Breaux on July 16, 2012 at 3:32pm -
Foremost, I applaud the idea of the "Compassion Games." I think it's a creative and fun way of bringing awareness to compassion and putting it in action.
The two determinants for local safety stood out to me in relation to what I do at the corner; knowing your neighbors by name and being present and associating in public emerged as two aspects of asking people about compassion. Because of this, I imagine what it would be like as part of the "Compassion Games." Intuition tells me that if a group of volunteers in Seattle made themselves visible during the month asking people to share their concept of compassion it may create an impact on local safety and empathy.
Maybe gathering concepts on compassion can be included as one of the events. I thought to share the idea after reading your description.I'll continue to look out on news about the games.
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