Introducing Dork Dinners 🍽 🤓
Dorks dance, meet up, make art, and now...do dinners together. Yes, we are introducing a new weekly event, “Dork Dinners,” to continue opportunities to socialize, build relationships, and connect. Dork Dancing builds good relationships, and dinners make it better. We meet every week, Friday at 7PM.
Our first “Dork Dinner” event at Loving Vegan
We are partnering with VEGAN restaurants in our MENTAL eats network to accomplish two goals simultaneously. 1) We hope to share good conversation, getting to know each other better over some delicious, discounted food. 2) We want to support the veganism movement by making healthy, conscious & caring food choices.
Dork Dinners will help us get to know each other more, in a casual & relaxed setting. Building good social relationships is the MOST powerful wellness indicator, so we are highly invested in that process as an emerging grassroots mental health movement & idea.
We think it’s so important because if you have good human relationships, you most likely are doing well with your mental health. Sharing a dinner once a week with other dorks certainly does not guarantee anything transformational, but hey, maybe it can be helpful and fun, moving us in a simple & good direction.
This explains our primary objective at dork dinners: share good conversation with nice people who care about your mental health. But Dork Dinners is more than what we talk about and who we are with. What we eat at dinner matters too.
Dork Dinners is going vegan, thanks to the activism, care, and consciousness of Olga, a dedicated dork dancer & photographer, leading the “Call Us MENTAL” storytelling project. Olga is the most conscious consumer in our community, inspiring us to continuously improve (currently she’s making her best effort to avoid plastic, for instance).
Vegan food choices are most often healthy and healthy eating choices are healthy brain choices because eating well does good for mental health too. There’s a reason why the gut is known as the second brain. We want to feed it well.
Not only is vegan food healthy, but it’s caring & conscious, better for the world. Veganism supports the environment & animal welfare. It challenges major industries that exploit & manipulate our environment and animals in destructive and harmful ways. Veganism makes sense on so many levels: it’s healthy and happy for our brains, guts, animals, and plants.
We know not everyone can or will go vegan, but at least we can share a meal at these restaurants once a week, talking about what matters with open-minded people.
Also, everyone who attends our dinners will get a 15% discount, whether you have a MENTAL headband or not! Hope to see you next Friday at Loving Vegan!