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KW Hungry Minds

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Kitchener, ON, CA

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What we’re about

Do you have a mind that is hungry for for new and challenging ideas? Are you searching for a community where you can learn together with your fellow neighbours? Are you looking for welcoming place to share all your beautiful thoughts? Then it's time to pull up a seat at the Hungry Minds table and get all filled up. There's a great variety of topics - you are sure to find something to whet your appetite here.

Upcoming events

8

Tue, Oct 21 · 7:00 PM EDT
Apologies - Part 1 - What makes a good apology?
Tess' Place, 49 Cedar St S, Kitchener, ON, CA
This is the first of a 4-part series in which we will look at and engage in the practice of making apologies. What makes a good apology? What is the hardest part of it? What are the core components of a good apology?

Here's a short article and podcast about what a good apology should be that we can talk about. And here's a slightly longer article that dives into how and why of taking accountability.

No writing prompt for this week as we will be setting up the groundwork for the apologies that we will be working on for the other three weeks. There will be writing prompts for those weeks.

Near the end of our time together, we will have a short (10 minute) guided meditation on the topic of finding forgiveness.

This event is part of Hungry Mind's look at emotional intelligence and it can involve opening to vulnerability and parts that we might not often share publicly. We ask all attendees to be respectful and deeply kind to everyone else.
20 attendees
Sun, Oct 26 · 1:30 PM EDT
The Happiness Curve and Aging
Community Room - 150 Queen St S, 150 Queen St South ,, Kitchener , ON, CA
My dad recently turned 80 and he is one of the happiest people I've met - far from the often hot-tempered man who raised me. He actually talks about having a shorter time left on earth with calmness and a smile on his face! Got me to thinking and, of course, researching and reading. Come across this article to start: Psychology Today's "How People Stay Hopeful and Happy After Age 80." This led me to Jonathan Rauch's book The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better after 50. (We have a copy of the audiobook, message Tess to ask for a link to a copy of it). There's lots of YouTube videos that give a good discussion of it - here's one that covers it well: Politics and Prose, "Jonathan Rauch, 'The Happiness Curve'"

In this discussion time we'll discuss the science that Rauch discusses with a look at the aging process and what it means for how we think about becoming older. In a few weeks we'll take up the side of happiness in youth.
15 attendees
Tue, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM EDT
Apologies - Part 2 - Apology to yourself
Tess' Place, 49 Cedar St S, Kitchener, ON, CA
You do not need to have attended previous sessions to attend this one.

Building on the work we did to understand what makes a good apology, we will start to work on engaging with this through a discussion of apologising to ourselves. What does it mean to do this? Why would we want to do this? What might bring us to this point in our lives?

Getting more personal - are you at this point in your life? Have you been in the past? Do you want to get to it in the future?

Writing prompt: Write an apology to yourself. There will be a document outlining what makes a good apology available after the first session - use it to help you with this. This is not mandatory for attendance but a helpful exercise to attempt to do.

Near the end of our time together, we will have a short (10 minute) guided meditation on the topic of finding forgiveness.

This event is part of Hungry Mind's look at emotional intelligence and it can involve opening to vulnerability and parts that we might not often share publicly. We ask all attendees to be respectful and deeply kind to everyone else.
8 attendees
Tue, Nov 4 · 7:00 PM EST
Apologies - Part 3 - The Apology you need to hear
Tess' Place, 49 Cedar St S, Kitchener, ON, CA
You do not need to have attended previous sessions to attend this one.

Building on the work we did to understand what makes a good apology and the apology to ourselves, we will continue to work on engaging with this through a discussion of apologies that we feel we need to hear. What is the value of having someone give an apology to a person? What gets in the way of someone being able to give an apology?

Getting more personal - Is there an apology that you feel you need to hear? In what way do you think it would be beneficial? Why do you think you haven't heard it?

Writing prompt: Write the apology that you need to hear from the voice of the person you wish to hear it from. Try, if you can, to put in some sort of explanation of why from their point of view.

There will be a document outlining what makes a good apology available after the first session - use it to help you with this. This is not mandatory for attendance but a helpful exercise to attempt to do.

Near the end of our time together, we will have a short (10 minute) guided meditation on the topic of finding forgiveness.

This event is part of Hungry Mind's look at emotional intelligence and it can involve opening to vulnerability and parts that we might not often share publicly. We ask all attendees to be respectful and deeply kind to everyone else.
3 attendees

Past events

380

Organizers

Tess and 6 others

Members

3,966

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