We seek to recognize, encourage, and support Compassionate Pioneers.

Compassionate Pioneers are those who not only reach beyond their own limits and lead the way in developing or trying new options, but who also encourage and help their colleagues to take the same path.

AND we seek to recognize, encourage, and support occasional acts of "Compassionate Pioneering" by those who cannot be Compassionate Pioneers all the time!  [Most of us.]

Interview Questions:
Some good questions, some Recorded Answers, reason for eliciting stories 

Nomination Form 
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Brief Hybrid Workshops
One way to be a Compassionate Pioneer, "Personally Happy & Publicly Useful" Brief Hybrid Workshop

Tom Creed - Exemplar & Award
 Information on his legacy of inspiration

Compassionate Pioneering Blog 
  [Starting soon!] Profiles of compassionate pioneers  

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Dangerous Discussions
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Compassionate Pioneers are those who not only reach beyond their own limits and lead the way in developing or trying new options, but who also encourage and help their colleagues to take the same path.  Perhaps only a few of us can be “Compassionate Pioneers,” but most of us can engage occasionally in acts of “Compassionate Pioneering” – and we should do so as often as we can.  

Those who frequently give their ideas and their work to an environment of sharing and who build upon each other’s contributions are compassionate pioneers.

Every contribution of an idea or effort to an environment of sharing and building upon each other’s contributions is an act of compassionate pioneering.

We can all be Compassionate Pioneers more often. 

Steven W. Gilbert 
November 27, 2001

For more information about the origins of this notion and some ideas about extending it,  see:
Fire Circles & Nurturing Communities                              "Tempered Radicals"