Appleton Compassion Project

05/14/2023

Happy Mother’s Day!

“I drew my mom because I showed her compassion when I helped her clean the dishes.” —Delaney Clark, 2011

06/12/2020

Tune in next Friday, June 19 to this important webcast.

Save the date! Richard Davidson of the Center for Healthy Minds and Healthy Minds Innovations will take part in a free livestreamed event with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, hosted by the Mind & Life Institute next Friday, June 19th. The conversation will explore insights to heal from current collective suffering resulting from the pandemic, systemic racism and more. Integrating contemplative wisdom and science, the conversation will consider how crisis can be an unprecedented opportunity to shift human consciousness and embrace our shared humanity.

Register here to receive a reminder and direct link to the free livestream event. https://www.mindandlife.org/healing-today/

02/17/2019

The Power of Compassion in Oshkosh’s Paine Art Center and Gardens.

“Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion” is now on view in the Paine’s Main Gallery.

The photo series by Phil Borges, social documentary filmmaker and photographer, explores what has happened to Tibetans and their culture since China’s invasion of the independent, Buddhist nation in 1950. Accompanying narratives of Tibetan individuals, including the Dalai Lama, share their compelling stories and shed light on their commitment to the practice of compassion in the face of oppression.

“Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion” is on view February 9 – May 19, 2019. Make plans to visit at www.thepaine.org.

The lead sponsor of the exhibition is Community First Credit Union. Photo by Ken Cravillion Photography - Oshkosh Wedding Photographer

02/09/2019

Don’t miss this extraordinary exhibition in Oshkosh.

Opening Saturday, February 9, “Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion” features the portraits and stories of Tibetan individuals, from nomads of the remote Himalayas to the Dalai Lama, leader of Tibetan Buddhism. The exhibition leads up to a week-long visit of Tibetan monks this March! Make plans to visit at www.thepaine.org.

Community First Credit Union is the Lead Sponsor of the exhibition. Photo courtesy of Phil Borges Productions: Storytelling for Social Change.

08/25/2018

Great work in Montana!

Bozeman schools will have a new program this year teaching mindfulness, kindness and empathy to K-12 students.

04/10/2018

His Holiness the Dalai Lama wearing a cap and holding a football presented by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers during their meeting at his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on April 10, 2018. Photo by Ven Tenzin Jamphel

12/03/2017

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/opinion/dalai-lama-despair-future.html?referer=https://t.co/jDwrl4iPte?amp=1

How do you cope in a world gone mad? By remembering that we are all one in being human.

10/02/2017

In my opinion, compassion is helping others in any way. It could be anything from helping someone with their books to going to a country in need. My image represents lots of darkness but in the middle of that there is a light colored path. This represents the little bit of help that there might be for those feeling hopeless. This path leads to a beautiful sunrise that represents a new beginning. I chose this because I thought it applies to a lot of the problems in the world. I made this with mosaic. --Anoymous, 7th grade

08/14/2017

Compassion is Life, Compassion is love. Compassion is the only thing thing that keeps the world running. It is the sympathy for others that makes us human in this horrific world we reside in. It is nothing, but yet it is everything. It is inside you and me and it grows with years. Its a shining light that emanates from within.
--Whitney Ryan, 8th grade

07/18/2017

"Mandela Mandala" (detail)
Cast Iron "Compassion Project" Manhole cover by Rob Neilson

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
--Nelson Mandela

05/23/2017

My tile represents a hand with plenty of tints of color. The colors are there on the hand to show all the different types of people we have in the world. Hand in hand, the world can change to help those in poverty. In the background, lies a rainbow. The rainbow to me represents unity. It represents unity because rainbows show up after bad storms or bad weather.
--Estelle Thao, 12th grade