Community Reflections & Insights – 2019
Through On the Table, we’ve created a catalyst and platform that encourages people to connect more meaningfully to one another. It is exciting and inspiring to see such as diversity of ages, sectors and topics of conversation emerge across the province. Check out our latest report to learn more.
Community Reflections & Insights
You can also see the results from 2018, the first year of On the Table BC.
Read the 2018 ReportExplore the Conversations
- Community Engagement & Participation (46)
- Inclusion & Belonging (28)
- Wellbeing & Vitality (28)
- Learning & Storytelling (21)
- The Built Environment (15)
- Climate Action & Climate Emergency (13)
- Arts, Culture, and Creativity (14)
- Social & Environmental Shifts (14)
- Food Security & Nourishment (10)
- The Voice of Youth (8)
- Just for Fun (11)
1. Community Engagement & Participation (25%)
- Better-connected Neighbourhoods
- “Love where you live,” Steveston edition
- A flourishing neighbourhood
- Age-friendly communities
- Being neighbourly
- Building community (x7)
- Building community in our community
- Co-operation
- Community building in small towns
- Community care
- Community chats
- Community connections (x3)
- Community for all
- Community inclusion
- Community involvement
- Community participation
- Community resilience
- Community visioning
- Community
- Community activities
- Creating a caring Dunbar
- Enjoying neighbourhood connections
- How can we build a better community
- How to create a safe and welcoming community
- Let’s connect
- Let’s talk community
- Meeting the neighbours (x2)
- Neighbourhood association
- Neighbourly chats on Forest Hills Drive
- Nova Scotianers
- Socially engaging minority communities
- How VR builds community
- Encouraging volunteerism (x2)
- CPAWS
- Life in Vancouver
- Macbeth neighbourhood block watch
- Making Vancouver fun
- Micro communities
- Politics
- UN Convention on the Rights of PWD
- Shared economy (library of things)
- What’s good in the hood?
- What service means to me
- What’s your favourite place in town and why?
- Who lives in our hood?
- Will you be my neighbour?
2. Inclusion & Belonging (15%)
- A more equitable society
- Breaking the isolation
- Building inclusive community
- Building more inclusive cities
- Belonging: what it means to each of us
- Belonging to the community
- Club 50+: supporting older women finding work
- Diversity in our community
- Gender equality (x3)
- Fat-friendly spaces
- Friends of the Similkameen
- Friendship
- Friendship as we age
- From around the world
- Helping new Amica residents feel welcome
- Home is where the heart is
- Immigration
- Inclusivity and personal well-being
- Interracial collaboration
- Interracial relationships
- Migration stories
- Navigating life in our 30s
- Potluck, People, and PRIDE
- Reconnecting
- Senior’s issues
- Social acceptance
- Social isolation and resiliency
- What is home?
3. Wellbeing & Vitality (12%)
- Autism and friendships
- Being with change
- Brain injury in our community
- Connecting
- Connection
- Conversation
- Conversation
- Conversations about community
- Conversations with neighbours
- Coming home:what does it mean to you?
- Creating a sisterhood circle
- Domestic violence NPD abuse survivors
- Dying well
- Gut feelings: how our guts affect us
- Joy and responsibility
- Life in the balance
- Living
- Menopause
- Mental health
- Mental health week launch
- Self care: finding love and joy
- Things that help us thrive
- What brings you joy
- The labour of love
- Autumn hikes
- Let’s chat about the next chapter
- Expanding horizons
- Food, sport, daily life in Vancouver
4. Learning & Storytelling (8%)
- Doing battle with overabundance
- Family Traditions x 2
- Following Jesus
- FSJ northern learning cohort
- High school angst
- How do we get ABA in schools?
- Learning
- Patients in education
- Sharing stories of our home waters
- Storytelling & oral heritage
- Storytelling and burnout
- Support university students initiatives
- Underlying connections
- Talent management
- Job Search
- Work force shortage – revisited
- WBS-“That the World May Know”
- Small Business
- Social Media Scams
- Team Building
- Tech supporting Humans
5. The Built Environment (8%)
- Daycare, shelter & transportation
- Future Homes for our Amazing Kids
- Shaping the City and City Wide Plan
- The Granville Connector
- Vancouver
- Vancouver as a new home
- Vancouver eco transportation & mobility
- Wastewater treatment, and contaminants
- History and future of heron point
- Co-housing Conversations
- Fresh Ideas for Salmo
- New cities
- Sustainability in our building
- The future of Steveston
- Preserve legacy world heritage sites
6. Climate Action & Climate Emergency (7%)
- Business for Climate Action
- Climate Action x 3
- Climate change action
- climate emergency
- Connecting to nature for climate action
- Our world & global warming
- Steps to going green
- Sustainable food systems
- tackling environmental issues
- UN sustainable development G=goals
- What does zero waste mean to you?
- What the world needs now is…
- Your actions on Environmental impact
7. Arts, Culture, & Creativity (7%)
- A creative conspiracy
- A guide to making better creative work
- Community arts & culture in the Koots
- Connecting with local creatives
- Democracy
- Democracy and belonging
- Culture
- empowering Vancouver musicians
- how live theatre has changed our life
- Music in us
- Should barriers to artistic freedom exist ? What are the most common barriers ? Are they personal or social ?
- Sustainability in the arts
- The genocide of a culture
- The Vancouver art scene
8. Social & Environmental Shifts (6%)
- Dependency on plastics, preteen-teens
- Providing a welcome to refugees
- Blacks and Canadian policies
- Creative actions for social change
- Environmental stewardship
- Let’s talk food waste!
- Nanaimo’s low carbon future
- Rainbow Refugee
- REAL reconciliation
- Reconciliation
- Revitalizing the non-profit identity
- Second-hand clothes
- The journey of reconciliation
- Women in leadership
9. Food Security & Nourishment (5%)
- A balanced breakfast
- Affordable health nutrition
- Breakfast with your neighbours
- Breakfast, lunch or appetizers
- Development and sale of local food
- Envisioning school gardens
- Food security in the Jewish Community
- Food Sustainability
- The Just Food Foundation
- Revelling in the fruits of our labour
10. The Voice of Youth (4%)
- Millennials in mining
- Junior youth spiritual empowerment
- Working with the millennial generation
- Youth anxiety
- Youth engagement
- Youth from care
- Youth in food systems for the future
- Youth in the Parksville area
11. Just for Fun (3%)
- Barbers who sneeze on you
- Girls just wanna have fun
- HELLO game
- Ice cream
- Karaoke
- Pet peeves
- Pets
- Poking fun at yourself
- Super Heroes
- What comes after Z?
- Your favourite books