An IDEA whose time as come!

IDEA: A world-wide day of community service activities which promote a global understanding of empathy.

Vision: That IDEA brings forward in every state, country, continent, leaders and facilitators to host gatherings with an emphasis on empathy to celebrate, mourn, learn & practice empathy skills, create plans for empathy corps or empathy first responder service in their area.

Mission: To have skilled people available in empathic listening/ connecting in all regions of the world so that we may see all beings integrate suffering to become free and fully alive. To have skilled people available in all communties to be "empathic third siders" to support peaceful resolution to any conflict.

"We have the opportunity to make a habit of empathy, to recognize ourselves in each other, to commit ourselves to resisting injustice and intolerance and indifference, in whatever forms they may take, whether confronting those who tell lies about history, or doing everything we can to prevent and end atrocities like those that took place in Rwanda, those taking place in Darfur. That is my commitment as president.
I hope that is yours as well."
 
U.S. President Barack Obama