Well, these dinners seem to just keep flowing more and more!

Earlier this week, a group of 8 of us co-created another heartwarming evening of connection and conversation, opening up to one another to share struggles and listen to one another. This time, we were in the private room at Homer Street Cafe in Vancouver, and had a family-style meal while discussing the topic of “Our Limiting Narratives.”

For me, there were a few key highlights I noticed compared to prior dinners:

• Main themes that revealed themselves repeatedly in terms of limiting beliefs or narratives included feeling like an imposter, creating stories as a result of the way we grew up and how our parents shaped our worlds, and not feeling good enough or worthy.
• My role as the facilitator of these dinners has started to feel increasingly natural. I am more comfortable both playing this role and being able to organically change things up as we go and relax into it, allowing me to be more conscious of the group throughout the evening, and also enjoy it more myself.
• The long rectangular table worked out fairly well in the end (perhaps helped by having to share our food across it), but I found that it probably could’ve been even better were it round (or at least even oval), as it was during the last two dinners. (This has led me to planning a family-style Chinese dinner for the next one in August!)

My goal during these dinners is for people to feel connected, inspired, and supported, and I definitely feel like this was a success once again. And one of the best parts – the big group hug before we parted for the night!

This time around, the pay-as-you-wish donations raised in lieu of ticket prices to attend are being paid in full towards Take A Hike Foundation.

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Photo by Nadia Valko on Unsplash