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Queer Heart Talking Circle

Queer Heart Talking Circle - a Gathering
offered by Community
at the Awaken Studio Toronto

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Registration and Schedule links for appointments and classes

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Queer Heart

Community Gathering - Talking Circle + Dinner and a Movie

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Celebrate OUR Shared Community

Queer Heart Talking Circle

An experiment in community building 
 

Queer Diversity - Share Radical Hospitality - 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Gather to share words - personal expressions - 
nurture our collective consciousness

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Share a Communal meal, a Pot Luck - 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Gather to share curiosity and nourish the soul

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Explore Visions of OURSELVES - 6:30 to 8:30

Sit BACK - Relax - Enjoy a Queer Movie - Feel a PART of in a Reflection of WHO WE ARE

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Queer Heart - Celebrate our shared Community 

 

Circling we Share our Connectedness.

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Sharing and most importantly listening and witnessing we can actively build community.

Enjoying the fraternity and nurture of our shared or witnessed experience.

We nourish our souls and spirits, together as fellow seekers on a common path.

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Delighting in Food and a Shared Table

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We can join in a universal connection. Sharing food we can dive deeper, as we take some time to share our curiosities and interests. Striving towards a greater and more connected world We can practice being supportive and united in our mutual respect.

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All men are welcome.

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Queer Heart Talking Circle

 

Sunday Gathering

Talking Circle - Ritual - Food

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  • Connect, express, and explore

  • Discover what can happen when men come together to communicate peacefully.

  • Talking Circle Gathers Monthly on Sunday Afternoons

  • A Potluck follows our Talking Circle

  • A movie follows our Shared Meal

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An OPEN, SAFE and Accepting Environment

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Be curious and willing to share your heart
 

Being Vulnerable as we speak

Sharing YOUR Most Authentic Self

Creating Community as we Gather

 

Sunday Afternoon

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1:30 pm to 6:30 pm

a HEART Centered Experience

 

Talking Circle

Share and Witness

  • Part 1 - Our Sharing Witnessing Circle - Unburden our Hearts

    • 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm

 

Share Food and Celebrate

  • Part 2 -  Our Community Nourishment - A Pot-Luck Offering

    • 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

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Share Fraternity and our Community

  • Part 3 - Our Queer exploration of Cinema 

    • 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm


Sunday Afternoon and Evening Queer Heart Community Gatherings

Generally offered on the Second Sunday of the Month September to July

Scheduling or timing of the shared event can be fluid

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Attending Sunday Afternoon


Queer Heart Talking Circle

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Queer Heart Shared Meal

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Queer Heart Explores Cinema


These are PWYC events
The suggested payment is $10.00
If this is unattainable please know that whatever contribution you can make will be welcome.

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If you are able, Please complete an online registration before attendance  at the Awaken Studio of any Queer Heart Community event.

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Please arrive a few minutes early and give yourself the pleasure of having the whole experience.

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All participants are asked to stay for the entire segment of the event, as early departures can be disruptive

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Within the Queer Heart Events there is no nudity.

Please know that there is no qualifying criteria for these events. there is no upper age limit for this group. Please be over 19 years of age.

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The only request of participants is that they remain present and true to themselves through the event.

Welcome

 

All men are welcome to take part in the

community building experiment that the Queer Heart Community is. The Queer Heart is part of the very core of the Awaken Studio Toronto. 

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Free yourself to treat yourself to an 
experience unlike any other in the city. 

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Please bring your courage, your curiosity and your open beginners mind.

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This community is open to all men and the

Awaken Studio welcomes all DIVERSITY.

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There is no experience qualification,

body shape or size restriction or

maximum age restriction.

Please be over 19 years of age

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Queer Heart Explores Community
 

Experiencing ourselves within

a mirror of community

can create transformation

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Radical Community In the

Heart of Toronto

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Practicing

 

Kindness

Compassion

Grace

 

Kindness, compassion, grace and conscious construction of community are basic tenants of the Awaken Studio Toronto. It is our practice to exist in the world living from a place of gracious and radical acceptance.

 

If for some reason you are unable to pay for the services offered by Phillip Coupal or

the Awaken Studio in Toronto we will do our

best to create an accommodation for your need.

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Although classes, experiences and all meetings can not be free of any financial exchange, the Awaken Studio and Phillip are always open to negotiation.

 

If you are under employed, unemployed or suffering from a financial hardship and you wish to attend, we will do our very best to create an accommodation made only for you.

Mutually agreed and negotiated in a kind and understanding manner.

 

Please be kind you yourself and make sure to contact :

Phillip for more information. 

phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

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All you have to do is ASK!

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Queer Heart Talking Circle

PWYC Suggest $20.00

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Queer Heart Explores Cinema

PWYC Suggest $20.00

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