by Michael Schut, Communications Manager, Recovery Café Network Recovery Café Jefferson County, located in the small town of Port Townsend, Washington, opened at noon. Community members gradually arrived, checked in with Maura at the front desk, and began to find their seats at the tables spread through the light-filled space. At 12:30 Brian, the Café’s […]
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by Aaron Guldenschuh-Gatten, Recovery Café Lexington’s Assistant Executive Director Chanukah is the Jewish winter (in the northern hemisphere) Festival of Lights, celebrated over eight days. The word Chanukah means dedication. Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the ancient sanctuary in Jerusalem. After an oppressive regime desecrated and vandalized the Temple, a group of committed Jews retook […]
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In this season of gift giving, those of us at the Network are deeply struck by the ultimately valuable gifts each Recovery Café offers to their community. Numerous TV and print media outlets have recognized those gifts recently: from Café openings to poignant TV and radio interviews with Café leaders. We want to share some […]
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“Perhaps the deepest thing in me is a belief in the oneness of the human family.” Killian Noe, Recovery Café Cofounder As many of us pause for Thanksgiving, all of us on the Network team reach out to all of you in the Recovery Café Network, and all of you who care for and support […]
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COHORT LAUNCH! There’s little at the Network that inspires more wonder, excitement, and smiles than welcoming a group of new leaders from new Recovery Cafés across the country! Just last week nine communities joined the Network team for two days of learning, small group conversations, and community building for our 11th Cohort Launch! The nine new Recovery Cafés […]
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Dana Bainbridge, Cofounder of Recovery Café San Jose & Pastor of Urban Sanctuary Church [Dana has been dear to all of us in the Recovery Café (RC) community since she reached out to the Seattle Café over ten years ago. She and her faith community, in 2014, founded Recovery Café San Jose, the first RC […]
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Silvia and José Andrade have called Gilroy, California, home since 1982. As I sat across from them, listening to Patty Marquez-Singh translate their story, I was struck by how transformation, for good or ill, is driven by those who show up. And José and Silvia, program managers of Nueva Vida Recovery Café, keep showing up […]
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by Mike Schut Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The beloved community—it’s a phrase many will never forget, partly because Dr. King did so much to reveal what […]
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“We all need recovery from anything that blocks our capacity to love.” Recovery Café cofounder Killian Noe Recovery is “the regaining of…something lost or taken away.” That’s one of the definitions Google offers. That could mean regaining a house after a flood; saplings after a storm; a neighborhood after an inferno; a nation after tyranny. […]
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by Founder Killian Noe “To love; it is what matters. It is why we were created.” Leo Tolstoy The Recovery Café Network recently held one of our “All Network Conversations.” These conversations provide space for us to get to know each other more deeply while reflecting on topics relevant to our common mission. This time […]
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