Previous Events
2022-23 Hybrid Compassion Summit
11 Schools, 120 Students, Two Amazing Keynotes, 14 workshops, 2 virtual meetings (Nov. & January), awesome collaboration with 60 CRP kids, and many amazing Compassion Action Plans! It was a memorable Summit!
2021-22 Virtual Compassion Summit
Compassion Summit 2022 - The first Keynote speaker was a representative from Youth Policy Collective (YPC) whose goal is the following: "Through a process of research, ideation and action, we bridge the gap between policy makers and the youth, giving a voice to our increasingly socially active generation."
Compassion Summit 2022
Keynote Speaker: Derrick Jefferson
2020-2021 Virtual Compassion Summit
Keynote speakers
Cass & Cornelia Minor
The are truly inspirational activists working within schools and communities to incite real change. If you wish to know more, visit their website here
As a culmination of the Summit, attendees performed an extract from a poem that inspired them and then composed a spoken word poem collectively.
The 2020-2021 virtual showcase for each school's action plans can be found here. Even though many of our participating schools were virtual for the academic year, these presentations displayed ways in which the students brought Compassion into their communities and schools at a time when it was desperately needed.
Below are a few more highlights from previous Compassion Summits
2017
This video captures what students took away from the inaugural Compassion Summit.
We are grateful to the Charter for Compassion, the Fetzer Institute, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, and NESA for your support of the inaugural Compassion Summit and beyond.