Kansas City Oasis

Join your friends for a relaxed day of fun and games. Your hosts Helena and Brian plan to provide a Mexican buffet, but feel free to BYOB and other snacks. Guests should also bring board games they’d like to share with the group. Helena has plenty of seating, but if we get a high RSVP count, you might consider asking her about bringing chairs/card tables. There is driveway parking and street parking. There are some stairs to enter the house, and no ramp. The address will be sent out prior to the event. Please message Stacy Leonard or James Wartell...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Micah W. Kubic, Ph.D. "The Movement is Now" Community Moment: Kate Laws Musical Guest: TBD In the popular imagination, the civil rights movement is something that ended decades ago – with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Despite the efforts of generations of civil rights activists, our country has yet to rid itself of pervasive racism, which has kept people of color at a stark disadvantage throughout history, and continues to do...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Beth Sarver " Principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology" Community Moment: Dennis Fehr (from Houston Oasis) Musical Guest:TBD There is this aspect of our human nature that we don’t often speak of and in our silence we miss the opportunities to create with intention, grace and deepening connection. While we all have brains and relationships, we are rarely given a common language to more skillfully name our experiences of mind and perception. How do we affect each other? How...

“Play is more than romping and stomping; it’s feeling, thinking and creating in the present moment.” Join Resilience Educator and Certified Interplay Leader, Beth Sarver, for a unique opportunity to build your personal and community resilience through mindfulness play… InterPlay. Learn more at www.interplay.org Inter-generational Interplay can foster the development of healthy attachment bonds, creative mindfulness practices, healthy organizational culture and a joyfully activated connection. Join us for a new kind of playful experience at Oasis on November 22nd after Beth's talk on the Principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology. InterPlay is an active, creative way to unlock the wisdom of the...

Join KC Oasis as we help feed and clothe those in need at Micah Ministry! The Micah Ministry is a charitable organization that seeks to help anyone, regardless of race, gender, religious (or non-religious) affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, or any other trait - as long as they could use some help, the Micah Ministry is there to help them. The Micah Ministry operates in a way that’s a bit different from traditional support organizations. They feed those who seek their services with a restaurant-style waiting operation: volunteers take drink and food orders and deliver the food to them, providing seconds...

Join fellow Oasians for a potluck style Thanksgiving at Erin Eaton's this year. Please bring food to share! Erin will be making a Turkey. Kids are welcome, and street parking should be plentiful. The address will be sent out prior to the event. Erin's house does have some stairs and cannot be considered accessible. Please message Stacy Leonard and James Wartell with questions.

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Josh Hyde "Online Privacy, Security, and the No Good, Very Bad Internet" Community Moment: Sue Nolen Musical Guest: The Errands EVSSL? CAPTCHA? DDoS? 2FA? WTF? Every day, it seems more and more like the Internet is a wretched hive of scum and villainy where everyone is trying to find new ways to steal your identity and money. Thankfully, it's not hard to keep yourself safe from these threats. In this talk, we'll explore some of the underlying...

Bring the family and join us for another happy hour! Parents with young kids (and people who don't mind kids) are invited to enjoy a family-friendly wine, beer, or whatever-you-fancy happy hour. EVERYONE is welcome, whether you have kids or not! Please bring a snack and a bottle of your favorite wine/beer/whatever to share. Games are welcome, too! Melanie and Clay’s house has plenty of street parking and room for friends – the more the merrier! They have dogs and cats; the dogs will be out of sight, but the cats are friendly, so plan accordingly if you have allergies....

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Sergio Moreno "Born Again Buddhist: A journey of belief and disbelief through five books" Community Moment: Dr. Darrel Ray Musical Guest: Mark Lowry About the feautred talk: After being raised evangelical and completing a degree in ministry, Sergio walked away from the faith and spent many years as an atheist. Longing for a spiritual practice that would not compromise his intellectual convictions, he eventually found his way to Buddhism. As he tells his story, he focuses on...

Monthly Midtown/Downtown Lunch Group Join us for lunch at Winstead’s on the Plaza. Please RSVP for headcount. If we’re a large group, we may be at more than one table, since many casual venues don’t take reservations. If you arrive and don’t recognize any faces, message Mark Dixon or ask the host/hostess. The Monthly Midtown/Downtown Lunch Group meets approximately once a month for lunch in the midtown/downtown area (Waldo, The Plaza, Westport, KU Med area, Downtown, SW Boulevard, River Market, etc). The location will change each month based on suggestions. In general, we’ll be looking for low- to medium-priced venues....