[In-person] Curiosity Café: Trusting Others (Ticketed Event)

In many ways, trust is paradoxical. We are often at both our strongest and most vulnerable when we put our trust in others. What do we mean when we say that someone (including ourselves) is deserving of trust? How do we show others that we are trustworthy?

In the 2009 movie The Invention of Lying, Mark Bellison, played by Ricky Gervais, lives in a world where no one lies, ever. In other words, everyone trusts that at least what everyone says is true. The movie explores the perplexing situations that arise when one party is endlessly trusting and the other, well, lies. At the next Curiosity Café, we will appeal to these unlikely scenarios to shed light on the value of trust, as well as dissect how and why we trust others.

Trust has other ways of manifesting itself in our lives beyond interpersonal relationships. While we often use the term self-doubt to describe when we feel inadequate in our abilities, we rarely use the term self-trust to describe when we do feel up to the task. How would our lives change if we trusted ourselves more? What prevents us from putting trust in the one person we know the best?

On Tuesday June 25, put your trust in co-moderators Matt Lam and Sofia Panasiuk to guide your exploration of these questions and more.

Space is limited. Please also obtain a ticket here if you're attending this event.

You can support our organization by implementing optional “Pay-What-You-Can” tickets, in addition to the usual "Free Ticket" option. We ask that you consider making a donation when you RSVP to help us make our work and growth as an organization possible. The ticketing page also has info about accessibility-related concerns at the venue.

___________________________________________________________________________

This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.

By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Find out more about Being and Becoming here.

About the Curiosity Café Series:

For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.