Welcome to Compassion Week 2025 - Celebrating 10 years!
This year marks a special milestone—our 10th anniversary of coming together for a full week of inspiration, knowledge-sharing, dialogue, collaborations, and hands-on activities. What began as a simple idea has grown into a vibrant tradition, connecting hearts across Greater Houston by showcasing and sharing tangible examples of Houston’s compassionate culture through various partner and network offerings.
Compassion Week 2025 NOVEMBER 10-16
Save the date for Compassion Week 2025 and it’s core message of SMALL ACTS. BIG CHANGE, highlighting the aspiration that each of us can be a force for good. Our small actions rooted in care and love ripple outward to transform the world, starting right where and how we are. Our theme invites us to explore how everyday gestures—rooted in care, courage, and connection—can spark powerful transformation, rippling outward to create lasting change. And it begins with us, right here, right now.
Whether through learning, practice, service, storytelling, or other types of shared moments, Compassion Week 2025 celebrates the tools we each carry to build a more compassionate world, one act at a time.
PURPOSE OF WORLD KINDNESS DAY
Compassion Week coincides regularly with the week in which World Kindness Day falls, 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.
Program Schedule - Details and Registration
Each partner-led program is a puzzle piece in a larger picture—offering practical tools, meaningful experiences, and opportunities to connect. Together, they form a rich toolkit for compassionate living. This page is a living schedule.
As our partners prepare their unique offerings, we’ll update this space by the end of September - beginning of October with new events, workshops, and opportunities to connect. Each one adds to the mosaic of Compassion Week—an invitation to explore, engage, and grow.
Check back often to see what’s unfolding and find the pieces that speak to you. We can’t wait to share it all with you.