LGBT+ Social Hub Melbourne

https://events.humanitix.com/gay-singles-picnic

Let's use The School of Life's discussion cards to explore our own and others' thoughts and feelings in small groups.

If you're not familiar with The School of Life, they're a remarkable global organisation devoted to fostering calm, self-understanding, better relationships, deeper friendships, effectiveness at work and fulfilment in your leisure time. Their YouTube channel gives a good introduction to their work.

Event Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/lgbt-social-school-of-life-discussion-cards

I'll have a dozen or so questions for you on a broad range of topics. For example:

• If you couldn’t fail, what would you do?
• You are the absolute dictator of the world: what four things would you do?
• What would you warn someone you loved about being with you?

Sometimes a receptive, non-judgemental audience can help unveil fresh ideas. It's also fascinating to observe your own perspective change or broaden as you reflect on others' worldviews.

I'll try to craft an event that caters to neurodiverse attendees' needs; e.g.

• a quiet, respectful environment
• groups of four to six
• a "talking circle" method where one person has the floor uninterrupted for up to a few minutes.

As your host, I'm simply a devoted facilitator, hoping to foster meaningful connections through soulful discussion.

Practicalities:

• Tickets for this event can be purchased on Humanitix for $3 via this link [https://events.humanitix.com/lgbt-social-school-of-life-discussion-cards]; this covers the cost of library hire and helps keep the Meetup group running.
• The library's open from midday to 4pm on Sundays, and well worth exploring.
• You can use their toilets during those hours.
• We're in Meeting Room 1, with views to the bay.
• We'll start soon after 2pm, so please arrive by 2pm so that we can settle into the process.
• No problem if your plans change. However, please change your RSVP so that someone else can take your place.
• I'll provide name tags.
• Feel free to bring drinks and snacks.

See you soon for a heartfelt chinwag.

*This paid event is run externally by Cody Fisher Therapies. To ensure your spot, register here.

Queer By Nature offers a gentle space to pause, ground, and replenish as the year draws to a close. In the lead-up to the often hectic end-of-year season, this workshop invites you to slow down, reconnect, and find moments of calm, creativity, and queer kinship amidst the noise.
Through nature-based practices, creative processes, and ritual, we’ll explore cycles of release, renewal, and flow, tending to what we’re ready to let go of and gathering what sustains us moving forward.
This 3-hour workshop offers time to rest, reflect, and express yourself in safe, inclusive, and accessible ways.

What to Expect

• A guided visualisation exploring release, renewal, and flow
• A solo reflective process inviting stillness and introspection
• A creative expression of personal renewal through artmaking
• A playful group artwork, exploring queer ecology and interconnection
• An optional mindful walk to close the afternoon

No art experience is required - just curiosity, openness, and your fabulous queer self. This is a space for LGBTQIA+ kin of all backgrounds, abilities, and expressions to connect, reflect, and replenish in community.

✨ Light refreshments and art materials provided.
This is an inclusive, neuro-affirming space. Participation is always by invitation - everything is optional, and you can engage in the way that feels right for you.

Come join us in co-creating an afternoon of queer belonging, creativity, and connection with the living world.

https://events.humanitix.com/sunday-afternoon-social-lgbt