Community Conversations
A series of facilitated, inclusive dialogues that bring together people from different backgrounds to share what they are seeing and experiencing in our city.
Across Winnipeg, people are feeling the impacts of disconnection; on our streets, in our neighbourhoods, and in our relationships with one another. While many organizations and individuals are already doing important work, too often these efforts happen apart rather than together.
When people are given space to share their lived experiences, without judgment and with care, new possibilities emerge. Compassion becomes something we practice, not just talk about.
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Kahanee is partnering with Compassionate Cities Winnipeg to host these dialogues because we know that community wisdom lives in the room.
These are facilitated, inclusive dialogues that bring together people from different backgrounds, cultures, and lived realities.
What is shared is documented and distilled into insights that can inform community action, partnerships, and systems change.
These are not debates or lectures. They are relational spaces grounded in respect, curiosity, and collective responsibility.
Each conversation is shaped by three simple questions. This framework centers lived experience while keeping the focus on shared action.
This question invites you to share what you are seeing and experiencing in your everyday lives, grounding the conversation in lived reality rather than assumptions or headlines.
This creates space to reflect on the personal and collective impacts of these experiences, helping us connect emotion, story, and responsibility with care and honesty.
This shifts the conversation toward shared imagination and action, inviting you to explore hopeful, community-led pathways forward.
These conversations are about belonging, dignity, and collective care. We invite participants to
Participants are encouraged to share from their own stories and realities, honouring personal truth rather than speaking on behalf of others.
Listening is approached as an active, compassionate practice—one that makes space for understanding, even when perspectives differ.
Ideas are offered in a spirit of curiosity and collaboration, with the intention of contributing to collective learning rather than persuasion.
The focus remains on what we can create together, moving away from fault-finding and toward shared responsibility and possibility.
Kahanee is proud to host these conversations as part of a broader effort to strengthen connection, cultural understanding, and community-led solutions across Winnipeg. Becoming a City of Compassion doesn’t start with policy, it starts with people coming together, building trust, and choosing to care for one another.
Your hosts for these facilitated dialogues
Former Winnipeg Police Chief, community safety and leadership advocate
Community leadership consultant and social change facilitator
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Founder of Kahanee, peacebuilder and dialogue facilitator
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Dentist, artist, interfaith leader, City of Compassion organizer
Community engagement specialist and dialogue facilitator
Youth advocate and community leadership facilitator
Member of the Board of Trustees, Charter for Compassion (International)
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Director of Partnerships and Dialougue Facilitator
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Peace Practitioner and Dialougue Facilitator
This second Community Conversations gathering builds on the foundation set in our kickoff event, inviting participants to go deeper into shared reflections, lived realities, and emerging questions shaping our city.
Hosted at Mediation Services Winnipeg, this facilitated dialogue creates space for thoughtful exchange, attentive listening, and collective sense-making. Together, we’ll continue exploring how individual experiences connect to broader community patterns, and what responsibility, care, and possibility look like when we engage across difference.
This is a relational, respectful space designed to ensure every voice has room to be heard.
Insights from this gathering will contribute to the evolving Community Conversations series and help inform future community action and partnerships.
- Welcome: 5:30 - 6:00 PM
- Opening Protocols: 6:00 PM
- Dialogues: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
- Refreshments and Social Hour: 7:30PM - 8:30PM
This kickoff event launches Community Conversations, a series of facilitated, inclusive dialogues bringing people from across the city together to share what they’re seeing, experiencing, and questioning.
This is a relational space grounded in respect, curiosity, and collective responsibility. Together, we’ll listen, reflect, and begin shaping the questions and insights that will guide future conversations and community action.
What’s shared will help set the tone and direction for the series.
- Welcome: 5:30 - 6:00 PM
- Opening Protocols: 6:00 PM
- Dialogues: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
- Refreshments and Social Hour: 7:30 - 8:30PM
