Around The Bend: Central Oregon Intentional Community

Cost is $5 per person. Please Venmo @ErikaBanke upon RSVP’ing to secure your spot! Thanks!

Come enjoy this beautiful space at the Hanai Center! Bring your art supplies, canvases, paint brushes, or any other creative project that you want to work on. We will just be spending a couple of hours working on art and hanging out. Plenty of room and tables available. This is a really fun time to build community and inspire creativity and connection. Everyone has been leaving feeling energized, it's really special✨

Everyone is welcome. 🤗 Feel free to bring a N/A beverage to enjoy; water, tea and hot water are provided🎨🖌️🖼️

If you wish to contribute a helping hand to this community offering, Erika is accepting art supply donations to offer at future gatherings or donations to purchase supplies.

Please update your RSVP if you are unable to attend, thank you for being courteous!

Greetings ladies! This months theme for Tea & Talks will be Nervous System Awareness: how do we notice and care for our human bodies as they experience big emotions, life changes and conflict. As well as what joy, peace and other positive emotions feel like in our bodies. Let's chat somatics, moving through energy and grounding ourselves.

Please join me for a relaxing evening of sipping tea and chatting with friends. I’ll be leading us in an open discussion about the above topic. The goal is to connect & exchange ideas with each other in a way that feels like a tight knit group of friends. You can share or just listen:) PLEASE bring a snack &/OR a beverage to share if you are able, the first 45 min we will be socializing and snacking.

PLEASE update your RSVP if you cannot make it. We have had about a 50% or less attendance rate for these events and it makes it VERY hard to plan and prepare when I don't know how many are coming, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING CONSIDERATE!

You are welcome to join this group series at anytime. We are aiming to meet once a month to build intentional community.

Here is a description of my vision for this group:

I have a beautiful vision to create an intentional community of supportive, connective women who do life together🌻

The word Moai comes from Okinawa, Japan. You may have heard this term if you watched the show “Live to 100” on Netflix. Okinawa is one of the blue zone hotspots for people who live extraordinarily long lives of higher quality. The “Moai” is the name they give to social support groups that are started in childhood and carried on through the 100s; that is to say one of the main reasons these people live so long and so happy is because they live intentionally connected to each other🦋

In our world of every (wo)man for themself, hustle culture, extreme individuality and independence, we want to create space to turn inward to each other. To slow down, connect, hear each other’s stories, encourage, teach, laugh, learn and create with you✨

NOT FULL - ADD YOURSELF TO WAITlIST - PLEASE READ ALL FOR INSTRUCTIONS TO PAY & BE ADDED TO THE "GOING" LIST👌🏻: Come get your camping fix in before the leaves turn yellow! I got a big group camping site with its own BIG private area. This is a car camping campsite with bathrooms (toilets), picnic tables, fire pits, and potable water (however I strongly suggest bringing whatever water you need to drink for the weekend). There is even room for an RV if anyone wants to bring theirs (no hook ups at this site but room to Park)

I do a group camping event once a summer and it is always a BLAST! Cost is $43 per person for the whole weekend, this includes camp spot for 2 nights and some of the group stuff I’m putting together and bringing. Event holds 25 people and i would love to fill it! Think summer camp for adults, as there will be games, campfires, s'mores, water fun, great food and lots of laughs.

To be added to the going list:
Add yourself to the waitlist, then message me that you’re in for the camp trip. Venmo the $43 to me @ErikaBanke. Once I receive your Venmo payment of $43 you will be added to the “going” list. Easy Peezy. I do it this way since I pre-pay for everything. If for some reason you need to back out we will need to find someone to go who can pay, if a replacement pays then you’ll receive a refund. Otherwise it is nonrefundable. Thank you for understanding!

What to bring:
-Tent/Sleeping bag, sleeping pad
-Anything you need for camp cooking, camp stove to share with group if you have one, pots and pans, utensils, plates/bowls (I am bringing disposable cups, plates, bowls and utensils)
-Sunscreen & Bug Spray!
-Water bottle
-Any flotation devices you want, I’m bringing my SUP, the river is right there for floating, paddling, kayaking and swimming!
-Firewood if you have some to share, would be cool if this could be a group effort
-Swim suit!
-Towels
-Roasting forks for s’mores/hot dogs etc
-Pots/pans (will need several for group cooking!)
-Tin foil or ziplocks are helpful
-Cooler/Ice
-Flashlight and/or camp lamps/headlamp
-GAMES: bring your faves for group game night!
-Onesies: I will be bringing some onesies, nothing is better than running around in a onesie at camp;) SO Saturday night is onesie night if you care to participate. It also makes for some stellar group photos 😆

Food:
Plan for a group taco night Friday night! I always do one taco night on my trips because it’s delicious, feeds everyone and it’s so easy. I will assign you what to bring once everyone is locked in, and will be private messaging on Meetup for all things correspondence. Other than that, bring whatever food and snacks you want for the weekend, you are in charge of providing what you need.

Drinks:
Bring everything you want to drink for the weekend, of course alcohol is fine, just be self aware and courteous. Water, tea, hot chocolate, mug for hot drinks.

Tents:
If anyone has a pretty large tent they are willing to share that would be helpful. Please bring your extras. If you have a tiny 1 person tent that’s fine we can fit many of those. ALSO if you have one of those shade canopies please bring it.

Cars/Carpooling:
Carpooling is a MUST! We’ve never had an issue figuring out car
-pools for a trip. We will figure this out more in the group comments closer to the event.Please be prepared to share your phone number as needed for coordinating plans. it would be ideal if every vehicle could bring at least two campers.

Adults only! Sorry NO pets!

That’s most of the important details! Please bring an easy-going and collaborative attitude. My weekend trips are always very laid-back, connective and fun. Be prepared for epic game nights, fun on the water, conversations by the fire (I’ll also bring my acoustic guitar for anyone who wants to provide ambience), camp cooking, laughing until you cry and going home with a bunch of new friends🥰 See you all at Camp Tumalo!

Disclaimer:
Meet up Hosts run events as a courtesy, they are not responsible for your safety or well-being, participate at your own risk. Any inappropriate or unruly behavior, will result in you being asked to leave.