Toronto Oasis, Secular Community

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

Our featured speaker will be Lola Bradford, a Toronto Oasis participant.  She has a Master’s degree in linguistics from the University of Toronto and is currently a PhD candidate in linguistics at McGill.  Lola will explain how taking a linguist’s perspective on language shows us that language is beautiful in all its forms, including “incorrect” ones.  Things that seem chaotic and lawless have wonderful patterns you can even find yourself.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305974929/

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing a YouTube video that was selected by and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305845706

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing a YouTube video that was selected by and will be introduced by Helen Lenskyj, a Toronto Oasis participant.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305720520/

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

Our featured speaker on this topic will be Tim Mt. Pleasant, a Toronto Oasis participant. Tim will be running through a presentation he has prepared for a conference for the Chiefs of Ontario 18th Annual Health Forum.

Tim Mt. Pleasant is a member of the Tuscarora Nation at Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation. He recently participated in postgraduate research training at McGill University, where he served on the Advisory Council on Human Research Ethics and the Research Ethics Board. Tim pursued a Master of Arts in Philosophy with a concentration in Bioethics and a postgraduate certificate in Translational Biomedical Science Research, though he has yet to complete these programs. He was admitted to McGill University and received offers from NYU and Johns Hopkins University after graduating with distinction from Ryerson University’s Honours Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy program in 2021.

With over 10 years of experience in Ontario’s Long-Term Care sector, including 8 years in Community Mental Health and Addictions, Tim also worked with the Ministry of Children and Youth Services on the First Nations Student Nutrition Program. He is a Policy Intern with the Mental Health and Addictions Division of Ontario’s Ministry of Health. Tim serves on the Ethics Review Board of Public Health Ontario and the Board of Grand River Community Health Centre, and he is a peer reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Bioethics. His status as a student is currently pending.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305591576

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This meeting has been recorded: GMT20250202-164020_Recording_1920x1080.mp4

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

Our featured speaker will be Clive Hannah, a Toronto Oasis organizer. He will share with us how the theme of community has been a thread throughout his life even before he became aware of it. Clive will share how groups and the greater community helped him whether it was his career, his health or his personal life. Clive was recently interviewed for an article for The Good Men Project. Here’s a link to that article: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/clive-hannah-toronto-oasis-community-sjbn/

We will also be having live music! Our featured musician will be Wesley Blondin-Doan, whose stage name is Kid Grit. You can check out his music here: https://soundcloud.com/kidgrit.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305459167

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This meeting has been recorded: GMT20250126-163122_Recording_640x360.mp4

Jump directly to Clive’s presentation.

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing a YouTube video on this topic that was selected by and will be introduced by Lola Bradford, a Toronto Oasis participant. In this video, a physicist argues that all the drama about Pluto’s demotion to dwarf planet was very specific to its time, and couldn’t happen today.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305332757

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing a YouTube video of an episode of TVO’s The Agenda. In this episode, a neuroscientist and the author of the book: I Heard There was a Secret Chord: Music As Medicine, Daniel Levitin, discusses how we can harness music to help us heal. The topic & video were selected by Gary Higgins, a Toronto Oasis participant.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305228147

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing some YouTube videos on this topic. The videos were selected and will be introduced by Paul Kaplan, a Toronto Oasis participant.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305115961/

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

Where do you find inspiration? That little something each day that you can look forward to, that gives you a little boost or makes you feel grounded. Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer will share about one of her sources of inspiration and introduce some YouTube videos to get us started on a discussion on this topic.

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/305001943/

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions.  Our program will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social.

We will be watching and then discussing some YouTube videos about the Six Domains of Self Care.  This topic and the videos will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

This Sunday, we will also be having live music! Our guest musician will be Elizabeth Block. Elizabeth was born in New York and loves telling people, “I wuz boan in Brooklyn. You gotta PROBLEM wid dat?” She was brought up on Gilbert & Sullivan, Broadway musicals (when they were written for singers), and the songs of Arthur Block – her dad wrote songs. She went to the High School of Music and Art, where she was an art student, but was allowed to sing in the senior chorus in her last year. She was a choral singer for decades, and a church soloist for many years. She joined Toronto’s informal folk song circle in – she thinks – 1984. She knows a lot of songs, some in other languages, many satirical and/or political. She has written new words to existing tunes, and a couple of times tunes to existing words.

Elizabeth is a potter by trade. You can check out her pottery work on her website: http://www.elizabethblockpottery.com/

Please RSVP on the Meetup event page to get access to the Zoom link: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/304974474

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!