Compassion Week 2024 - Filled with Gratitude
Compassion Week came to a close mid November. It was a memorable week filled with unique experiences, connections, healing and hope, in the spirit of this year's theme: We All Belong: Practicing Welcome and Inclusion.
We want to express our heartfelt gratitude for the diverse perspectives provided by network partners and their help in promoting the event. And a big thank you to all attendees for joining one or more of our 15 programs this year.
Enjoy a selection of photos from various events throughout the week by clicking on the button below.
We All Belong: Practicing Welcome and Inclusion
At Compassionate Houston, we aim to nurture a culture of compassion in Greater Houston through awareness, education, community, and service, with the support of a collaborative network of individuals and partner organizations. Each year, we dedicate one week to showcasing and sharing tangible examples of Houston’s compassionate culture through various partner and network offerings. This special week is known as Compassion Week.
Compassion Week 2024 NOVEMBER 11-17
Save the date for Compassion Week 2024, a week of inspiration, knowledge-sharing, dialogue, collaborations, and hands-on activities, with a distinct focus on opening our hearts and minds to cultivating our shared humanity by welcoming and serving each other, beautifully expressed in these lines from Naomi Shihab Nye’s iconic poem Gate A-4: “This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.”
PURPOSE OF WORLD KINDNESS DAY
World Kindness Day is a global day, introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, that promotes the importance of being kind to each other, to yourself, and to the world. The purpose of this day, celebrated on November 13 of each year, is to help everyone understand that compassion for others is what binds us all together.
The Spirit of Ubuntu
Since 2021, Compassion Week is scheduled around World Kindness Day, November 13. And this year, we reserved the evening of Wednesday, November 13 for a network-wide event: The free showing of the documentary The Spirit of Ubuntu (“I am because we are”), including live music from the film performed by the film’s producer (see below).
Program Schedule - Details and Registration
The Spirit of Ubuntu
Celebrating Ubuntu during Compassion Week
We are excited to invite you to a network-wide event in collaboration with several other organizations: the free showing of the multiple award-winning documentary The Spirit of Ubuntu ("I am because We are"). The evening includes the live screening, a Q&A, and live music with the producer, Grammy nominated reggae legend Pato Banton and world-renowned keyboard player Antoinette Rootsdawtah.
Co-Sponsored by Gethsemane Church, a ministry of St. Luke's UMC, The Garden, Connect Community, The Alta Arts, and Compassionate Houston.
Date: Wednesday, November 13
Time: 6:00-9:00 PM
Location: Gethsemane Church 6856 Bellaire Blvd, Houston
Light dinner provided at no cost.
Please arrive on time (by 6:00pm)
Compassion Week Event Schedule
We are grateful to our amazing partners and friends for creating a vibrant space where we explored “We All Belong: Practicing Welcome and Inclusion.” This year’s Compassion Week journey was one of connection, self-cultivation, and understanding.
A big thank you to everyone who joined us, whether in person or online. Together, we embraced this opportunity of cultivating compassion and celebrating a brighter, more inclusive community, inspiring change across all boundaries.
