Vent Over Tea

Connection is more than just a conversation—it’s preventative mental healthcare. ✨

This Mental Health Week, we’re highlighting the vital role of community care in Quebec. With waitlists for traditional services often stretching from 6 to 24 months, many Quebecers are left navigating their mental health journey alone.

We believe you shouldn't have to reach a "tipping point" to be heard. Statistics show that a strong sense of community belonging makes us 61% more likely to report excellent mental health.

Community organizations are the frontline of prevention, acting as a "pressure valve" to break isolation and build resilience before a challenge becomes a crisis. But for this safety net to hold, we need to value and invest in the community spaces that keep us connected.

How to find support today:
🗓️ Book a free active listening session and connect with an empathetic listener: https://ventovertea.com/vent-sessions/

📂 Consult our Resource Directory to find a curated list of mental health services in Quebec: https://ventovertea.com/resources/

No matter where you are, you shouldn't have to wait to feel lighter. We’re here to listen.

In the spirit of Mental Health Week’s “Come Together” theme, Vent Over Tea is hosting three gatherings, a morning café centering those doing care-centered and community-rooted work, a meditative journaling workshop, and a spring photo walk, each nurturing connection, reflection, and shared care. Through these offerings, we’re creating space to slow down, be in community, and strengthen the relationships that support our mental wellbeing.

We’d love to see you throughout the week:
✩ Tuesday, May 5 (10am-12pm): Community Care Café
✩ Wednesday, May 6 (6-8pm): Connections Through Writing: A Meditative Journalling Workshop
✩ Sunday, May 10 (11am-1pm): In Bloom: A Spring Photo Walk
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Join us for a warm Tuesday morning for the second iteration of our gathering, Community Care Café! This event is for people doing care-centered and community-rooted work, including organizers, facilitators, mental health and cultural workers, and community builders.
Community Care Café is not a panel, workshop, or traditional networking event. It’s a place to slow down, share honestly, and connect without pressure. Whether you come to vent, reflect, dream up collaborations, exchange resources, or simply sit with others who understand the weight and beauty of this work, you’re welcome here.

The gathering will be lightly structured with small discussion circles guided by optional prompts, followed by open time to mingle, rest, or linger. There is no expectation to speak, produce, or perform. Come as you are.

Participants are warmly encouraged to bring along any resources they’ve found helpful in their work; tools, readings, organizations, practices, or connections they’d like to share. Resource-sharing is optional and informal.

Meet us:
🗓️ Tuesday May 5, 2026
🕙 10:00am - 12:00pm
📍Café Pista | Quartier des Spectacles - 1587 Boul. Saint-Laurent

☕🍪To help us thank Café Pista for hosting us, we kindly ask each participant to purchase a drink or a pastry during the event.
🎟️ RSVP for the event is free (https://communitycarecafe2.eventbrite.com)! Capacity is limited.

If your work involves holding others, this space is for you ✨