Your ripple
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Whether you're a student, a family, a class or a whole school — we'd love you to take part. Notice a small act of kindness. Share it with us.

The Kindness Ripple Challenge is a simple invitation for students, schools, families and communities to notice, share and practise small acts that strengthen connection and spread kindness.

Help start a ripple that reaches further than you'll ever see. A ripple can begin in a hallway, a classroom, a kitchen, a garden, a group chat, or one small message. Quiet kindness counts. Connection starts small.

#SmallActsBigRipples

Kindness Ripple Challenge

Join the Kindness Ripple Challenge

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Kindness has a way of staying with us.

Share a moment you offered, received, witnessed or showed yourself and help it travel.

Share Your Ripple

Small Acts. Big Ripples

The Kindness Ripple Challenge is a simple invitation to practice small acts of kindness.

A ripple can begin in a hallway, a classroom, a kitchen, a garden, a group chat, or one small message. Quiet kindness counts. Connection starts small.

Complete Form

Submit a short kindness story through the form below. Tell us your story and help the ripple travel.

From time to time we will celebrate ripples with a prize or community spotlight.

Share Your Ripple

#SmallActsBigRipples

Share your Ripple

Only submit stories you have permission to share.

For Schools

Schools can take part in simple, meaningful ways: a moment of kindness witnessed, a weekly kindness act, a class kindness wall, a note-writing moment, a buddy activity or a conversation about including someone.

The goal is not perfection. It is creating a culture where people feel seen, included and supported.

For Families

At home, kindness might look like:

Phones away at dinner.
Making someone a cup of tea.
Checking in properly.
Helping without being asked.
Giving someone a fresh start.
Taking a walk together when words feel hard.

The smallest moments often become the ones people remember.

Send a message to someone who might need it.
Invite someone in instead of leaving them out.
Say thank you to someone who makes your day easier.
Be kinder to yourself when your mind feels loud.
Buy someone a coffee or a drink.
Walk outside with someone who needs to talk.
Put your phone away and really listen.
Notice a moment of kindness you received.

You could:

It can be something you did, something someone did for you, something your class or school did, or a moment in everyday life that helped someone feel less alone.
You can choose whether your story stays private or is shared anonymously to inspire others.

Share a moment that stayed with you

Celebrating the ripples.

The Kindness Ripple Challenge is about kindness, not competition, but shared stories help the ripple travel.

Throughout the year, we'll share weekly kindness prompts for schools, families and our online community.

From time to time, we may celebrate some of the ripples shared with us through a small prize, special experience or community spotlight. These might include a voucher, a self-kindness gift or a class well-being session.

Celebrating ripples

How it works

Before you share

One act.
One conversation.
One ripple.

The Kindness Ripple Challenge is created by Kyne Foundation as part of our wider work to nurture youth wellbeing, connection and community.

- KYNE FOUNDATION

This World Mental Health Day, we’re making space for kindness, nature, gratitude and connection. 🤍

Kindness towards ourselves and others.
A moment outdoors to pause and connect with nature.
Gratitude for something small.
Connection with someone who helps us feel seen and heard.

At Kyne Foundation, these values are at the heart of our work.

Today, choose one small act of care for yourself or someone else.
Connection Creates Wellbeing
#WorldMentalHealthDay #KyneFoundation #Kindness #Nature Gratitude

The Kyne Foundation is delighted to welcome internationally acclaimed clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author @doctorshefali to Dublin this October for a special evening hosted by Kyne Foundation co-founder @jacquelinekyne.

Together, we will explore conscious parenting and how we can support our children to build confidence, resilience and a deeper connection to themselves while navigating anxiety, relationships, screens and the pressures of today’s world.

The evening will also draw on themes from Dr. Shefali’s two new books, Raising Conscious Sons and Raising Conscious Daughters which she recently shared on @oprahpodcast.

Dr. Shefali’s work has been a longstanding influence on Jacqueline’s own journey and the work of the Kyne Foundation, making it especially meaningful to welcome her to Dublin.

Thursday, 22 October | 7–9pm
Unitarian Church, Dublin 2

Tickets are on sale now through the link in our bio.

#KyneFoundation #DrShefali #oprah #ConsciousParenting #parenting

The Kindness Ripple Challenge is a simple invitation to notice, share and practise small acts of kindness. 🤍

A ripple can begin anywhere - in a hallway, a classroom, a kitchen or a garden.

Do one kind thing.
Invite someone else to pass it on.
And remember, quiet kindness counts too.

Has someone shown you a kindness you’ve never forgotten? Or have you created a small ripple of your own?

Share your story through our website and watch the ripple grow.

#KyneFoundation #SmallActsBigRipples #KindnessRippleChallenge

The Gathering Table @lisnacarrighouse @aventinewellnessgardens.ie was created as a space to simply come together. For people who care deeply about wellbeing, connection and community.

Not to present.
Not to perform.
Not to network.

Just to listen, learn, share experiences and have meaningful conversations.

What stayed with us wasn’t any one conversation. It was the reminder that when people come together with openness and curiosity, something shifts.

New ideas emerge.
Relationships deepen.
Connections are made.

And often, the ripple continues long after the evening ends.

Thank you to everyone who joined us around the table. 🤍

#KyneFoundation #TheGatheringTable #Connection #Community

The Kyne Foundation did not begin with all the answers. It began with an instinct.

A feeling that kindness matters. Connection matters. Community matters.

So much of the Foundation has grown from moments that simply felt aligned - a conversation, a shared belief, a person whose work carried real heart.

We believe good people doing good work should be supported, trusted and brought together.

And that is still how Kyne moves.

By listening.
By trusting the feeling.
By following the people and places where something meaningful is already beginning.

Small moments of connection can become something much bigger.

#KyneFoundation #Kindness #Connection #Community #SmallActsBigRipples

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