Soup & Shura is a refugee-led and lived-experience-led community gathering for shared food, gentle conversation and collective care.

The gathering invites people with lived experience of seeking asylum, forced displacement, migration, trauma, mental health challenges, suicide distress, survival and community care to come together in a warm and welcoming space.

Soup & Shura is also open to community members, lived-experience workers, peer workers and supportive allies interested in refugee mental health, trauma-informed practice, suicide prevention and collective care.

Together, we will prepare soup, share a meal and open up thoughtful conversations about belonging, emotional safety, refugee experiences, mental health, suicide prevention and how communities can better support one another before people reach crisis.

Soup & Shura is not a clinical workshop or counselling space. It is a community gathering grounded in listening, mutual respect, choice, care and connection.

People are welcome to participate in ways that feel comfortable — by cooking, eating, listening, speaking, reflecting or simply being present.

Places are limited and registration is required.