The Table Winnipeg

Hey folks – as promised, our series on religious trauma and Religious Trauma Syndrome is drawing to a close. It’s been a while coming, for sure, but I’m glad to be turning the page into this chapter. As we will discover...

Hey folks – last week we planned to explore the place that anger has on the road to recovery from religious trauma and Religious Trauma Syndrome. And we almost did. 🙂 However, as sometimes happens, our Community Time...

Sorry/not sorry – I couldn’t resist adding the all-caps “MORE”. I think it’s because the subject line was starting to sprawl… In any case, that is also all true. This Sunday, we’ll gather at the Plett house once again...

Hey folks—last week’s blurb was long partly because I needed to provide a lot of details about the “where” part of our gathering. There will be some of that in this one as well because the search for our next gathering...

As most of you may know, VA Cafe has closed. That’s sad for several reasons, one of which is that we now have no gathering space. We’re working on that but it might take a bit of doing to find our next “home”. In the...

Hey folks – we’ve taken a bit of a breather from our exploration of religious trauma and RTS (religious trauma syndrome) for the past couple of weeks, and (as promised) we are now returning to this topic. In particular...

Hey folks – our journey this week will take us through some more critical thinking about what to watch for if we’re trying to identify / steer clear of toxic belief systems. If you caught the Talky Bit last week, you...

Hey folks – this week, when we gather at VA Cafe (lower level, 10:45 am), we’ll check in with Community Time, then jump in and swim around in the deep end some more. However, we’re going to take the “swimming” metaphor...

Hey folks – welcome to another not-so-cold-you-could-freeze-starting-your-car weekend! I know there is much more to life than the weather, but as people with bodies as well as minds and spirits, it’s a factor. I’m...

Hey folks – when we gather this week at VA Cafe (lower level), we’ll take the time to check in with one another (humans “being” first, then on to “humans doing”), and then dig into Part 2 of our exploration of Religious...

Hey folks…It’s unusual for me to sit down to write the blurb and feel as though I’m genuinely uncertain where to begin. I feel that way this week not because I’m uncertain about the topic, but because it’s a big one...

First of all, an acknowledgment. I am aware that this time of year can be snowed under with tag lines insisting it be “merry and bright”, and I’m not trying to undo anyone’s commitment to fostering that. Also, it’s a...

Yep – Part 3. Because we can, that’s why. 🙂 Actually, it’s because deliberately changing your beliefs turns out to be a potentially pretty involved process. Maybe that’s part of why not everybody wants to take it on...

Hey folks – when we gather this week, we’ll enjoy some Community Time, some shared music, and further exploration of what we can do to deliberately change our beliefs. For the younger members of the group, there will be...

I’ve spent a lot of my career in spaces where there was a dynamic tension between plans and spontaneity. Creative spaces, spaces where humans come first, and also spaces where sometimes a lot of time, effort and...