Sunday Brunch and Salon
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Sunday Brunch and Salon
June 25 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Sunday Brunch & Salon
Join us on the 4th Sunday of each month for a salon style conversation talking about the issues that women face.
We’ll have coffee, tea, water and mimosas as well as some brunch snacks.
Bring your big ideas and thoughts as we discuss issues that impact women globally.
We’ll have deep and embedded conversations and hopefully find common ground and an ability to turn talk into action!
September Brunch: Women’s Rights – Is History on our Side?
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October Brunch: Mother Daughter Relationships – whether you are one or both – how we can heal and move forward
Article HERE
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November Brunch: When Savoring Moments are Radicals Acts of Joy
Article HERE
Your co-facilitators:
Jill Dziko & Tina Shattuck
Freedom vs. Equality.
The World Health Organizations says we are still 300 years away from gender parity. As a jumping off place – we will discuss the issue – if it’s possible to ever be equal, and what might need to be re-framed in discussion. Please come having read this article – it will be the framework for our topic of conversation: ARTICLE HERE
Deconstructing Patriarchal Systems
How did Patriarchy actually begin? How do we participate in the system as women today? How do we recognize systems that don’t serve us and go about changing them so that they do?
Please come having read this article – it will be the framework for our topic of conversation. ARTICLE HERE
Reframing “self care” in our current system
Ancient Greeks pursued ideas about the “care of the self”. This idea took on a new vitality in a book by Audre Lorde after she had been diagnosed with cancer for a second time, Lorde talks about self-care as a radical political act. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence,” she wrote. “It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Caring for yourself became a way of preserving yourself in a world that was hostile to your identity, your community and your way of life.
Please come having read this article – it will be the framework for our topic of conversation. ARTICLE HERE
