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Join Play for Peace for a month + of training your heart, mind, and body, leading up to the virtual, Level Up: Race for Humanity 2020!
Congratulations! Your participation in the Level Up Race for Humanity 2020 will make this year less overwhelming and more fun for you and your family, co-workers, and/or friends.
We hope you feel more hopeful by joining our inspirational global community during this playful month-long challenge.
From September 1– October 8, you will participate in weekly activities to level up your body, mind, and heart. You will complete simple, virtual, guided activities and use video tools from experts in physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Your journey will culminate in a race in which you can walk, run, or roll, while delivering compassionate acts of your choosing. Just think of the amazing video you could create and share of your Race for Humanity: of you walking to deliver appreciation notes to neighbors, running to drop off PPE to nursing homes, or rolling to a special place in your community to draw uplifting chalk art. You can participate however you choose!
DUE TO DEMAND THE RACE IS EXTENDED THROUGH OCTOBER 8TH!
Find inspiration and prepare to Level Up during the opening ceremony, which includes a warm welcome from the Play for Peace team, a motivational activity to help set your goals for the month, a tutorial of the Level Up spirit dance, and more!
Click on the image above to view the recording!
Celebrate your successes with the entire Play for Peace community! Hear how fellow participants found compassion, connection, and community while leveling up their hearts, minds, and bodies. Reflect on your experiences and acts of kindness, and consider how you can continue to spread and share peace after the race. We can't wait to say, "Congratulations, you did it!"
Preparing for the Race!
You are now an important part of an effort to up-level, both individually and collectively. Through your participation in Level Up: Race for Humanity 2020 you will benefit personally and have a positive impact on others.
You can participate in all of the ways that inspire you and skip over anything that is not of interest. You can participate by yourself, but we encourage you to invite others to participate with you to enhance your motivation and fun.
The Digital Training Toolkit on this page includes the following:
How can you participate right now?
Review this page and set yourself up for an amazing month.
Mark your plans on your calendar to make time for up-leveling! Basic activities will take no longer than 20–30 minutes a week. Activities will be available to view the Friday before the week begins; however, you may also want to make time for the additional amazing content we've added below.
Invite loved ones, colleagues, and others to participate in the race with you, and help get them registered! Invite them to watch the opening ceremony which is posted on the page.
Please share the event registration page with friends, family, and colleagues! Post videos about how you would like to level up or how you are committed to leveling up on your social media feed. Be sure to use #leveluphumanity2020
Compassion is the genuine desire to help when faced with others' suffering. Research suggests that compassion is an evolved part of human nature—in both our brain and biology—and can be cultivated for the greater good. Acting with compassion allows us to navigate conflict with more flexibility, grace, creativity, and tenacity. You can use this week to dive deep and reflect on moments when you've turned away when faced with the suffering, anger, fear, or alienation of others. Challenge yourself to see the suffering of others and respond with kindness and empathy. Make a plan for your Race for Humanity to include an act founded in a deeper understanding of compassion.
As with all components of this event, deciding to earn a Compassion Champion Badge is your challenge, your choice! To earn your Compassion Badge this week, please complete the following:
Level Up: Race for Humanity 2020 Preparation with Compassion!
Based on your learning throughout the week, brainstorm the act of kindness you will incorporate in your the race founded in a deep sense of compassion for yourself and others.
During this week, the following activities will support you in believing in the amazing capacity of you and others to develop and act with compassion. They'll help you to look at things from a wide variety of views (especially those not often heard well) and do what you can to remove your participation in the attacking culture—both within yourself and externally.
Mind power
This activity is a reminder that we have amazing hidden capacities. When we are grounded in the reality that we can change the world with our actions and intentions, we realize that it is urgent for our mind and actions to be founded in compassion. This activity will act as a foundation upon which you will build your experience this month.
Perspective
We are at a time when humanity is being asked to embrace multiple seemingly conflicting truths and look at life from a variety of perspectives—especially ones that have not been commonly accepted. This activity is not to encourage gaslighting or denying events and facts, but to understand that people create different meanings when experiencing the same situation.
Hand Slap
No one does their best work while under attack, and most of us experience times when we feel under attack internally and externally. Attacks come from many places (i.e. cultural conditioning, toxicities, stress overload, info and decision overload, divisiveness, unhealthy coping strategies). Anything we can do to reduce our participation in these attacks can help—especially internal attacks on ourselves.
Additional Resources
Once you have successfully completed the Compassion Module, supported a Level Up Creator, and posted about your experience, we invite you to download the Compassion Badge image on the right and proudly share it with friends and family. You can then continue on your Level Up journey, reflecting on how you might "up your game" around compassion. Don't forget to think about creative ways you can bring compassion into your culminating race at the end of the month.
If you are further inspired to give, considering making an additional donation on the race registration page, so that more youth in communities affected by conflict can participate with us this month!
CONGRATULATIONS ON EARNING YOUR COMPASSION BADGE!
Connection is the healthy alignment between you and others that enhances belonging, intimacy, and thoughtfulness. Connection can be to self, other human beings, animals, the natural world, or spirituality. Healthy connections enhance well being in body, mind, and heart for everyone involved. Use this week to dive deep and reflect on ways to deepen your connections. Consider inviting others to join you on your Race for Humanity journey, as it will be helpful to practice reaching out and deepening your connections.
As with all components of this event, deciding to earn a Connection Champion Badge is your challenge, your choice! To earn your Connection Badge this week, please complete the following:
Level Up: Race for Humanity 2020 Preparation with Connection!
Based on your learning throughout the week, brainstorm how you will connect with others during your race.
To support you in the process of deepening your connections, use the following activities to help you move beyond your initial negative reactions. You'll find win-win scenarios when difficulties arise, and feel love rather than hate within yourself and in your interactions with others.
Hand Fold
While many of us have negative emotional reactions to new things, we can train ourselves to evaluate them first so we can choose how we really feel. Having an initial negative reaction to differences inhibits connection with others, while being open to new things increases connection.
Thumb Wrestle
We often find ourselves competing with others, even when a better opportunity for success exists when we collaborate together. In fact, we all usually get more of what we want when we collaborate instead of competing with one other. Finding "win- win" answers is key to leveling up.
Polarization
Negative feelings towards ourselves and others is damaging to us. Polarization is a huge feeder of stress and fear for many of us. This activity can be used to explore the damages caused by participating in polarization and the benefits of ending our participation.
Additional Resources
Once you have successfully completed the Connection Module, supported a Level Up Creator, and posted about your experience, we invite you to download the Connection Badge and proudly share it with friends and family. You can then continue your journey throughout this month, reflecting on how you might "up your game" around connection. Don't forget to think about creative ways you can deepen your connections leading up to the race you will do in week four.
If you are further inspired to give, considering making an additional donation on the race registration page. Your support will help us to sponsor more youth in communities affected by conflict so they can participate this month!
CONGRATULATIONS FOR EARNING YOUR CONNECTION BADGE!
Caring community blossoms when we focus on what we want to create instead of on what we don’t want to create. When we bring compassion to how we sabotage ourselves and others and reach for the expression of our best selves.
Community building involves enhancing the social and structural functioning of a group of people with shared interests or needs, enabling all community members to create new ways of viewing and relating to one another, as well as new systems and structures that enhance the well being of everyone.
As with all components of this event, deciding to earn a Community Champion Badge is your challenge, your choice! To earn your Community Badge this week, please complete the following:
Level Up: Race for Humanity 2020 Preparation with Community!
Based on your learning throughout the week, brainstorm how you will connect with others during your race.
Focus
When we are fixated on things like fear, scarcity, and negativity, it is harder to find what we are looking to create, such as peace and abundance. By focusing on what we want more of and adding that into our community ourselves, we are more effective in creating a better world.
Best Self
It is helpful to be aware of how we function under pressure, because there is an extraordinary amount of pressure happening for most of us now. Using self compassion, we can recognize when we are not our best selves, commit to how we want to grow, and ask for the support we need.
Additional Resources
Community Champion Badge
Once you have successfully completed the Community Module, supported a Level Up Creator, and posted about your experience, we invite you to download the Community Badge and proudly share it with friends and family. You can then continue your journey throughout this month, reflecting on how you might "up your game" in your community. Don't forget to think about creative ways you can support your community leading up to the race you will do in week four.
If you are further inspired to give, considering making an additional donation on the race registration page. Your support will help us to sponsor more youth in communities affected by conflict so they can participate this month!
CONGRATULATIONS FOR EARNING YOUR COMMUNITY CHAMPION BADGE!
Congratulations on making it through to the final week! You have invested your time taking the next step in your personal growth. Let these final activities be a celebration also of your desire to make the world a better place.
In this final module we will look at systems of oppression. We see that this system of oppression hurt all of us and that together we can create more humane and workable systems that lift us all up. As these systems are broken down it will get easier to create compassion, connection and community.
As with all components of this event, deciding to earn a Race for Humanity Badge is your challenge, your choice! To earn your Community Badge this week, please complete the following:
Level Up: Race for Humanity 2020 Preparation with Community!
Based on your learning throughout the week, brainstorm how you will connect with others during your race.
Level Up: Race for Humanity Module Activities
Systems of Oppression
This is about pulling off the veil of denial and examining the system that is hurting us all. It is about
doing this in a way that empowers people, instead of alienating them. It is about doing this in a way that moves away from shame and blame and towards mutual responsibility and possibility. Use this handout which includes instructions and reflection questions.
Share Your Experience
When shared, your experience can have a positive ripple effect on your family, friends and community.
Steps
Level Up: Race for Humanity 2020 Badge
Once you have successfully completed the Race for Humanity Module, supported a Level Up Creator, and posted about your experience, we invite you to download the Race for Humanity Badge and proudly share it with friends and family.
If you are further inspired to give, considering making an additional donation on the race registration page. Your support will help us to sponsor more youth in communities affected by conflict so they can participate this month!
CONGRATULATIONS FOR EARNING YOUR RACE FOR HUMANITY BADGE!
Please keep racing through October 8th!