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Anonymous Agent Reveals Hidden Secrets About the International Kindness Team.

SENT AUGUST 13, 2015
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Secrets Revealed!

Anonymous Agent Spills the Beans on the International Kindness Team and the Secret Agents of Compassion
Shhh! Want to know a secret? This story is about to reveal one of the best kept Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest mysteries. For the past four years, an elite, undercover team have taken on missions of life-altering proportions, changing the very fabric of our world. We think it’s time for the word to get out, for the world to appreciate what they’re doing, and for countless others to join in.
You may not know it, but there is a global team of people who get up each day and are guided to complete missions of goodness that come straight from their hearts. These people are known as Secret Agents of Compassion, and are members of what has just been revealed as the International Kindness Team (IKT).  
You may be interacting with a Secret Agent of Compassion right now and not even know it. In fact, you may even be one of these agents and not realize it!  Secret Agents of Compassion are often just too humble to think they are a Secret Agent of Compassion, but they are. And their kind actions alter the very fabric of our world.
A Secret Agent exemplifies a mode of leadership that differs from the public leader that has come to be over-celebrated in our modern culture. Instead, they represent a form of leadership that can best be captured in the aphorism:
"There is no limit to what a person can do or where they can go if they don’t mind who gets the credit".
The IKT began with the very first Compassion Games in 2012 and continues to grow, yet remains one of the best kept secrets of the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. That is, until now!
During each Compassion Games coopetition, players sign up and receive a daily mission via email (or on a secret social media site) as a Secret Agent of Compassion. They perform their acts of kindness and then share them with the world via the Compassion Report Map. (Agents can continue to report their secret acts of kindness any time of the year and they can report their actions anonymously, although this is not required.)
Right now, missions are being prepared for the International Kindness Team for the Annual Compassion Games that begin on September 11, a US National Day of Service and Remembrance, and continue through September 21, the UN’s International Day of Peace.
On very rare occasions, one of the agents is 'discovered' by accident, in which case the secret of their identity must not be disclosed. We were fortunate enough to find such an agent who was willing to spill the "heart beans" and answer some of the most revealing questions about why someone would want to be a Secret Agent of Compassion, and why someone should participate in the 2015 Annual Compassion Games.
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Compassion Games International (CGI) Interviewer: Agent Anonymous, I can’t begin to tell you what a thrill it is to be here with you today. Thank you for stepping forward to finally reveal some of the information behind the Secret Agents of Compassion. We’ve just been dying to know how it all works.
Agent Anonymous: When something is overflowing with goodness, it deserves to be shared and known. I believe it’s time for the International Kindness Team to be revealed in order to get the exposure that is overdue. And I hope doing so will inspire others to become Secret Agents of Compassion, as well.
CGI: Fantastic! We hope so, too. So, Agent Anonymous, let’s begin, shall we? Let me start by asking what got you interested in becoming a Secret Agent of Compassion?
Agent Anonymous: You know, it just seemed like the right thing to do. In fact, I found it easier and more rewarding to be kind than to act indifferent or insensitive toward others. I finally realized that this indifference was also something I was showing myself, and I wasn’t any better for it. But I didn’t always know these things. I had to make many less-than-graceful mistakes to appreciate how much better it is to live from the heart and act with compassion.
CGI: Mmm, that must take serious humility and courage to come to terms with. Why is it important to be a Secret Agent of Compassion?
Agent Anonymous: You know, it really does! And nobody will ever be able to calculate the multiple ripple effects of doing good for another, for the Earth and even for oneself. Suffice to say, I think it's more important to be an Agent of Compassion than I will ever fully realize myself. When somebody brings light and goodness into the world, it brightens it up for the benefit of everybody.
CGI: It certainly does... But why keep it a secret?
Agent Anonymous: That’s a great question and the simple answer is, you don't have to. Most agents prefer the anonymity and claim they receive even greater pleasure in doing these acts without any interest in receiving credit. In this regard, it is quite rewarding to be part of a secret, global International Kindness Team. Not even I know who the other members are, minus the few who are on my local team!
CGI: Well, the element of mystery certainly keeps the excitement alive, even for you I imagine! Do you know who writes the missions?
Agent Anonymous: Interestingly enough, I do! I stumbled upon this information quite by accident, but that’s a longer story. The heart and brains behind the secret operation is Andy Smallman, founder of Kind Living and the Puget Sound Community School.  Recently, Andy has consulted with David Spangler, the American Spiritual philosopher and self-described "practical mystic," to write the missions.
CGI: Andy Smallman? I’ve never heard of him, but I feel like I should have. What makes these people qualified to write these missions?
Agent Anonymous: Well, that’s because Andy is too humble to take credit for all of his remarkable work. Andy has been promoting kindness for well over 20 years. He believes if you develop one’s character with compassion and empathy that success and achievement, however YOU define them, happen naturally. To really understand this, people should check out PSCS, the incredible school he created for middle and high schoolers in Seattle. As for David Spangler, he has been helping people live more authentic lives through his writings, lecturing, and teaching since the early 1970’s. Back then, he was co-director of the spiritual community of Findhorn in northern Scotland. He now serves as director of the Lorian Center for Incarnational Spirituality.
When it comes to understanding, guiding, and inspiring others to act with kindness, these guys have got more than enough chops to write the secret missions for the Annual Compassion Games coopetition.
CGI: Wow, no kidding! And each mission is also paired with such charming artwork as well. Do you know who illustrates the missions to make them so inspiring and fun?
Agent Anonymous: Now there is a mystery for the ages. We know that the artist's name is Fish (astronaut). He is a long-time collaborator of Andy’s, but other than that, there is not much known about him. On his website he says: "I love all creatures big and small." I suppose the rest is up to your imagination.
CGI: Fascinating… the saga simply continues. Agent Anonymous, may I ask something super confidential, something risky for even you to reveal? Can I ask if these missions have ever been life-threatening?
Agent Anonymous: Mmm… you’re really putting me on the spot here, aren’t you? (Agent Anonymous laughs and smiles.) Well, the missions can sure be terrifying! Sometimes reaching out to engage with someone can bring one to panic! There's no question that being a Secret Agent in the Compassion Games take people out of their comfort zones and directly into their stretch zone, but there's really no need to panic.  Quite the contrary to “life-threatening”... this kind of play can change human life on Planet Earth as we have come to know it. “Life-altering” may be a better way to phrase your question, and the answer to that question is yes: these missions can be truly life-altering!
CGI: Thank you for answering such a sensitive question there, Agent Anonymous. I can see how these missions can be life-altering, indeed. What is it really like being a member of the International Kindness Team?
Agent Anonymous: I take great pride in knowing that we - all of us - are building this team together to strengthen our collective capacity to act with compassion and insight, to more effectively deal with the challenges of our time. As the theme for the 2015 Annual Games is “Compassion is the power source for social innovation,” we take what we do very seriously, but also, very playfully! I can think of no more rewarding experience.
CGI: Incredible. How does one actually become an agent?
Agent Anonymous: It's simple and powerful, it's free and priceless. Sign up here to let the International Kindness Team (IKT) HeartQuarters know that you’re in. By signing up with the IKT, you’ll receive 11 missions during the Annual Games from September 11 through September 21 to ignite and catalyze compassion in our world. That’s all there is to it.
CGI: You can count me in! Do you have to think of yourself as a compassionate person in order to be an agent of compassion?
Agent Anonymous: Not exactly. Sometimes we act compassionately and sometimes we don't. So long as your commitment is to acting as compassionately as possible, you qualify to be an agent!
CGI: Agent Anonymous, thank you so much for being with us today, and for revealing such important information for our world. It has been simply inspiring, and a true pleasure.
Agent Anonymous: Oh, the pleasure has been all mine, really. It’s time for this to be known. I encourage anyone reading this interview to officially become a Secret Agent today, and join the emergence of the International Kindness Team. Together we can change the world, one secret act of compassion at a time. Thank you.
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We are thrilled to publish this exposé to reveal this remarkable team. We invite you to join in and be a Secret Agent of Compassion and participate in the world's largest compassion competition and kindness team! Still have questions? You can find out more here.
It has been discovered that a powerful antidote exists that can counteract the hate, hurt, and negativity that plagues our global community. This highly potent antidote is called “compassion,” and it exists within you.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to become a Secret Agent of Compassion, and disseminate the antidote to change the fabric of our world.



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 Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week 

Earth Week: April 18 – 26, 2015

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The Motivating Vision for the Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week Coopetition

“Compassion is planting a seedling under whose shade we may never sit.” - Ancient Proverb
Who is it that you love? When we think about those who are dear to us, we are reminded of what is truly most important to our kl-fish-march14-02lives. Our love for those we care about inspire unimaginable feats of human strength, connection, and resilience, and this love moves us to make the world a better and safer place. Love as a force of nature is truly a remarkable power to behold.
Is there a place near where you live that you love?  We interact with the Earth in many ways… walking a dog at a park, kayaking in the ocean, growing a garden, playing on a beach, or getting lost in the beauty of a flower. What would happen if we were to challenge each other to show compassion to the places we love?
It isn’t much of a leap to realize that the sustainability and well-being of our only home, Planet Earth, directly affects the happiness and safety of those who make life so meaningful and beautiful to us. Our relationship to the Earth also nurtures our own personal well-being, allowing us each to feel a deep sense of connection, wonder, peace, and wholeness in this place we all belong to and call our home.
Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week, from April 18 – 26, aims to help us transform our love for those we care about and our love for this place into compassionate action for the Earth and all her inhabitants. It aims to uplift and rally our spirits to live into a positive vision of the future that works for the environment, all of life, and for seven generations of life to come!
And, quite simply:
Mother Earth needs our love! 
 
Since it is the Earth’s land, water, and clean air that we totally depend upon for our sustenance, well-being, and futures, the decision to act compassionately toward our Mother Earth is as natural as breathing. We live in a time calling us to act in unprecedented, unified action to change the narrative of our current story to one of justice, sustainability, and love for one another, all beings, and this place we call home.
Mobilized compassionate action to Protect and Restore the Sacredness of Mother Earth is the ultimate act of compassion, for its benefits reach far beyond our individual selves to all living beings. The youngest among us, and our future generations, are looking to us – their ancestors – to care for the Earth lovingly so that it can support and sustain their lives as well. Let’s play together and bring compassion to life for Mother Earth!

Register for Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week Here!

What are the measurable objectives of the April 18 – 26 “Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week” Coopetition?

The Love This Place! Earth Service Week Coopetition was created to ignite compassionate action and kindness for our Mother Earth. So, how do we measure our impact?
Participants (individual players and/or teams) submit reports of projects or activities to the Compassion Games Report Map. The reports count the number of volunteers, number of hours, number of people served, and amount of monies raised for local causes so we can see the overall impact of a Compassion Games coopetition. In addition to submitting the reports, participants reflect on the impact their actions have had on themselves and their communities, strengthening their learning experience and celebrating their success.
Initiatives or actions for Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week builds upon these core measures. Number of Trees Planted, for example, is a expanded metric for Serve the Earth Week. Below we have highlighted some major “Ways to Play” that individuals or teams can participate in to bring compassion to life for themselves, their communities, and the Earth.

Ways to Play!

Connect the activities and events you or your communities are already engaged in as part of Serve the Earth Week! Let others know about the remarkable work you are doing and invite them to participate to inspire and further catalyze compassionate action around the world. You may be hosting a beach clean up party, helping a recovering ecosystem, volunteering at a community garden or even committing random acts of kindness to fellow Earth beings!
In addition to any of the incredible work you and your community are doing or planning, the Compassion Games is featuring the following Ways to Play to further mobilize fun and meaningful compassionate action for the Earth, our communities, and of course, yourself!

1. The Love This Place! Story Mapping Challenge

Compassion Games has partnered with ESRI to bring the Story Map technology to Love This Place! Serve the
Earth Week. This challenge will ignite a conversation about the love of place, and inspire one another to celebrate and protect the places and homes we love and depend upon. The premise of the Story Mapping Challenge is simple:
  1. Identify your favorite places in nature or your community.
  2. Geotag these places on the Story Mapping platform.
  3. Tell your story of the place and why it is significant to you. Share pictures of the place to make it come alive for others.
  4. Commit to taking care of this special place for yourself, other lifeforms, and future generations to come.
You can share your stories with your friends and communities, and even show them the place in person! Where are the places that are loved the most? Can we get 1,000 stories in by the end of Serve the Earth Week? Game on!

Submit Your Places and Stories Here!

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2. Renew the Tree of Life: Sign the Green World Charter and Plant Trees!

ReGreen the World in One Generation… for All Generations to Come!
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Join us on a great journey of global regeneration… There is growing recognition among environmentalists that we must address not only conservation and sustainable technologies, but the regeneration of the land to protect and restore the Earth and halt climate change.
When a tree is planted, it breathes in carbon and absorbs it into its body for its lifetime (and trees can live for hundreds to thousands of years!), effectively capturing the carbon that was once in the ground before we burned it as fuel. The planting of trees and land restoration restores biodiversity and arable soil. It also, amazingly, can help alleviate poverty and create food security. To date, the regreening of healthy, thriving ecosystems is the only known ways to re-absorb the excess carbon in our atmosphere that creates the greenhouse gas effect for climate change.
The Green World Campaign aims to regreen one billion acres of degraded land by 2030. Here is how you can help play your part!
  1. Affirm the “Green World Charter to Renew the Tree of Life”.
  2. Share the Green World Charter with your community and have them affirm it!
  3. Team up with local restoration groups to plant trees in your community or in restoration areas near you!
“We pledge to plant new seeds of spirit in the real soil of this world. May each burst forth as a resurgence of hope, a message to children yet unborn that we were mindful of their coming, that we stewarded for them a green and peaceful planet, and kept faith with their future.” -Excerpt from the Green World Charter

3. Become a Secret Agent of Green Compassion!

One of the most popular Ways to Play in the Compassion Games is the Secret Agents of Compassion. Each day of the Earth Week EathBoyFishcoopetition, the International Kindness Headquarters will send out a mission aimed to ignite compassionate action and deepen reflection for ourselves, others, and the Earth. The focus for these secret missions, if you choose to accept them, is to awaken a Green Compassion that is hopeful, connective, and regenerative for self and the planet!
Sign Up here to receive the daily missions for the Secret Agents of Green Compassion during Earth Week!

4. Participate in a Give-A-Day Service Project

Screen Shot 2015-03-05 at 10.56.53 AMComing out of the heart of Louisville, our partner and collaborator Mayor Greg Fischer conceived of and implemented the Give-A-Day Week of Service in which citizens are invited and encouraged to take one day out of their week (April 18 – 26) and give it back to their community. The Compassion Games are proud to announce that in partnership with Mayor Fischer we’ve embraced the Give-A-Day Volunteer Service coopetition and added it to the repertoire of Ways to Play for this year’s Earth Week!
It was Mayor Fischer who, in fact, helped catalyze the Compassion Games for the first time in Seattle as a response to his tongue-in-cheek boast that “Louisville is the most compassionate city in the world until proven otherwise!”, and to further rub it in, “We are so compassionate in Louisville that we will go to any city to help them beat us!”
To participate in Give-A-Day, commit to giving one day during Earth Week for a service project in your community. Below are some ideas to help you get started!
 

How to Play in Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week!

Step 1. Commit to Play (Register HERE!)
09-BannerPlay as an individual, an organization, or a community! Any project you or your community are already doing or planning to do for Earth Week can be included and will benefit from being in the Games and help inspire others. If you’re wondering how to play or get involved, consider some of the featured Ways to Play for Earth Week listed above. Commit to a project, event, or activity that calls to you as a way to be in service to the planet and help to heal our relationships with our Mother Earth and all living beings who call her home.  We encourage all players to use the spirit of the coopetition to ignite even more engagement and compassionate action in your community and beyond!
Step 2. Play!
Get out there and have fun! Engage with your activity during Earth Week to ignite an alluring beacon of hope to others that we08-Banner humans are capable of being in compassionate service to the world. We are setting -in this challenging time – an unprecedented display of unified, compassionate action to Protect and Restore Mother Earth!
Step 3. Report
Submit a report of your event or activity on the Compassion Report Map found here to add 06-Bannerit to the growing wave of unity for Mother Earth across the world. These reports are a source of inspiration, solidarity, and honor for all people who play to bring compassionate action alive for our planet. Reports provide ideas for others, and propel us through competitive altruism to do even more.
Step 4. Celebrate, Reflect, and Share!
Just as important as any step in this cycle, we must celebrate and share our success for standing up to do what is right, and to03-Banner make the Earth a safer and more compassionate place to live. Share your story with others so the wave of growing unified compassionate action continues to inspire and expand in the hearts and minds of others.

Check out the growing calendar of events for Serve the Earth Week or post your upcoming events here!

Coopetition Partners:

Compassion Games is working closely with the following partners to bring
Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week to life.
 
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Resources:

Are You a Biophiliac?  Discover Nature’s Gifts of Awe, Longevity, Compassion!
Learn More about the Inspiring Work of the Nawtsamaat Alliance here at ProtectTheSacred.org
News Story on Compassion for Mother Earth
Explore Ways to Help Support the Salish Sea Marine Sanctuary!

Scoreboard and Teams:

Scoreboard results begin on the day of the Coopetition.
Community
Reports
Volunteers
Hours
Served
Dollars
2017 BLAST
Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
Aidan Elementary
Class of 2018
Compassionate Austin
Congolese Community
Dower Power
DVGS SEN1OR5
DVGS2016
Gaia
Honoring Beloved Community
Interfaith Companions
InterFaith Works
It's Time to SHINE Seattle Women & Girls Team
Martha VanDer Mark
MDCAN
Metro Louisville
Mockingbird
NY
OCICE (Orange County Interfaith Coalition for the Environment)
Outlook Park, Huntington Beach, CA
PORO PORO VERDE
Prairiewoods - Earth Day Sabbath
SARAH
The Masters School
Up to Us
**GRAND TOTAL

Highlights, Reports, and Stories:

Highlights, Reports, and Stories will be displayed here the week of the Coopetition.
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"Keep feeling the need to be first. But I want you to be first in Love. I want you to be first in moral excellence. I want you to be first in generosity." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Compassion Games are designed to help, heal and inspire, making our community a safer, kinder, more just and better place to live.
Casady's Compassion Games Initiative
All Divisions "Do the Right Thing Food Drive" 
4,456 and $135 from UD
Middle

2,230

High School

1,465

Lower

575

Primary  

186



THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS

Peace Team member motivates high school teenss to donate

Middle Division students motivate peers to donate

Lower Division donors pause for a picture
Primary Division donors take donations to the Food Bank trailer


To give peace a chance-Hunger makes animals out of men- members of the Peace Team (Miranda, Johnny, Ananya, Sidney,and Turner) facilitated and supported the efforts of the service club, YAC  (Youth Acting in the Community) promoting a different kind of Food Drive. YAC's motto was: "Donate to end hunger in Oklahoma because is the right thing to do.   The freshman leadership sponsoried, "Give without expecting anything in return."  YAC was inspired by a story told at a meeting by an English teacher, Mrs. Stephanie Crossno.  Mrs. Crossno stated that a firefighter who helped at the bombing and died on September 11th,  came with $20 to spend in his pocket and left OKC with the $20 in his pocket because of the generosity of Oklahomans supporting his efforts to help after the OKC bombing..  The firefighter stated that gesture became the Oklahoma standard."

The YAC freshman organizers of the drive had a creative campaign of #30/6//26000 cans"  If every student from k-12th brought one can a day, representing of a mere one can a day of the month, or 6 cans every day of the food drive, or 30 cans one day of the drive, Casady could donate a huge number of cans to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma feeding 110,000 Oklahomans weekly.

Johnny, Ananya, Sidney and Miranda not only guided the ninth grade drive facilitators, they also brought cans and were on duty motivating others to donate at different divisions. Kathy brought cans. 

The Food Drive Team








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