Community: Connect! A unique, vibrant networking event which helps people interface in ways that build social capital. We will do all of this during the wonderful Wellness Central Vegan Dinner from 6-8PM

You are a social change agent if you want to take action to create a better world. Helping society go vegan. Educating the public about animal sentience. Promoting compassion for all sentient life. Advocating for a peaceful world. How reducing animal agriculture and also reduce global warming. Causes like these are VITAL social and cultural concerns RIGHT NOW. “Community: Connect!” will help you be even more effective and productive in accomplishing these important goals.

Attendees have the opportunity to:

Utilize their talents
Get important needs met
Articulate authentically
Make new friends
Deepen existing friendships.

Join us for interactive activities and breakout sessions which help build trust and a sense of healthy community so we can cooperate effectively.

And, if you want, you too can host one of the break out session. If you are interested in doing that, email Patricia and she you give you details.

OR, just come and enjoy being a participant!

We use the principles of Open Space Technology, to make an event where everyone’s voices can be heard and people’s needs can be met. Restorative Justice circles and Sociocracy 3.0 are also an inspiration.

Learn more about Community: Connect! here: https://communityconnectevent.wordpress.com/

Patricia Mikkelson is a mother, vegan, community builder, musician, gardener and professional organizer. She has been cultivating community building spaces since 1975 when she learned about the intentional communities movement while co-coordinating one of the first natural foods co-ops in Arkansas
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Living half of her life in the Midwest (mainly the Ozarks) and the other half in southern California, she has lived an alternative life-style since she dropped out of college at age 19 to take a solo journey overland from Europe to Sri Lanka. This experience inspired her to reject materialism and embrace a path of living a simple life seeking to always joyfully serve using her gifts and talents.

Patricia is passionate about creating a new organization called Healthy Communities Everywhere. Her mission is to create healthy community building structures and spaces where people heal their trauma, fulfill their potential, and get all their needs met so all life can thrive.Integrating a vegan lifestyle into healthy communities is an essential part of this vision.

Patricia has been producing and fine-tuning the Community: Connect! Event over the past 11 years, and she feels hopeful that this unique gathering will be an integral part of the positive changes happening in the world. You can contact her at [masked] or[masked]

First, enjoy a delicious full-course vegan dinner, including beverages and desserts. ALL vegan. ALL health-supporting. ALL you care to eat! Just let us know you will be there so we can plan how much to bring.

Location is the Opera Plaza Community Room, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco. Take the elevator to the mezzanine, then follow the sign down the hall to the right.

A fifteen dollar requested donation covers it all. The FULL-COURSE vegan dinner. The CUTTING-EDGE presentation about building community.

RSVP to reserve your place! And to help us know how much food to bring. Do so here, or email to: [masked] OR call (888)[masked].

See you there!